Archive for February, 2008
Radio silence for a bit
Feb 24th
I got the news today that one of the guys from my old youth group died today. I know who they’re talking about, but I can’t put a face to the name. He was 31 years old and died of a heart attack. It was not a good time to give me the news. I’d…
SCO Group lives to fight again
Feb 16th
I don’t know how they pulled it off, but according to The Wall Street Journal they managed to do it. The SCO Group has managed to raise enough money to keep fighting in the courts against Novell. SCO Group Inc. said private equity firm Stephen Norris Capital Partners and partners in the Middle East will…
Microsoft into Danger
Feb 12th
Oooh. Microsoft really is getting into a bit of a spot. The great innovators have discovered that ages old mantra, “Why innovate when you can buy?” Not only have they got a thing for Yahoo! they are now deciding that Apple is getting too much market share and so will face off against them head…
Microsoft conceeds defeat in the online gambit
Feb 3rd
44.6 billion? Hmmmm… Smacks of desperation to me. Its been well known for a long time that Microsoft couldn’t in any way keep up with the migration to the internet. In 1994, instead of admitting that the internet was something good and useful, they come out with the Microsoft Network, branded MSN. At the time,…