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Microsoft has just announced a solution to help independent software vendors and hosting service providers deliver software as a service, and is talking up the benefits of this type of delivery. Which begs the question: Why not Office as a service?

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Microsoft says Open Office.org 10 years behind
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Linux desktop a viable alternative to Windows: poll
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Microsoft Office users ready to jump ship: poll
Microsoft plans to block downloads of software updates for users of pirated versions of its Office suite instead of nagging them with alerts. However, if you're lucky enough to be an English language user, the whole validation process will be voluntary for the present.

The Windows on a Mac story just seems to be one that refuses to go away. It seems that the whole world is going cock-a-hoop and doing back flips over the new-found ability of the Intel Mac to run Windows natively. What few seem to be saying is that it’s a crock.
 

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Mac OSX on PCs floodgates opening
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It's a wireless world, but not for Apple
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Apple targets PC giants with Boot Camp 

Over the past week we have seen numerous reports of basically much ado about nothing. Contrary to what many pundits are saying, the fact of the matter is most Apple Macintosh users hate Windows and vice versa, so who cares if the new Intel Macs can run both operating systems?

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Alan Yates

As general manager, business strategy, for the Information Worker Group at Microsoft Corporation, Alan Yates develops and guides new business initiatives for the Office products group at Redmond. While we await the release of Microsoft Office 2007, promised to hit our shelves before the end of 2006, Yates dismisses open source rival Open Office.org 2.0 as being 10 years out of date.

Proprietary software champion Microsoft has reneged on an agreement to send its star Linux strategist to Sydney for the inaugural LinuxWorld Australia expo and conference next month. Not that Bill Hilf was likely to say anything that the market didn’t already know in his presentation.

If we imagine two baseball teams – the Windows Windjammers and the Linux Lumberjacks – the Windjammers are the longstanding pennant holders and the Lumberjacks are the struggling up and comers. Judging by my experiences last weekend, things may very well stay that way for the foreseeable future unless the Lumberjacks make a serious effort to get their act together.

As part of its monthly patch distribution, Microsoft has issued a series of new security updates, two of which are categorized as critical. We are told that the vulnerabilities, if left unpatched, allow hackers to run malicious code on unprotected computers.  How many times have we heard the same song and why are we paying a fortune to keep hearing it?