Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Microsoft. Show all posts

Saturday, July 26, 2014

China has banned MS OFFICE in government facilities

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China has banned MS OFFICE in government facilities

Republic of China has banned the use of Microsoft Office software in parts of the central government and some sections of the secondary, for the benefit of the national program.

China believes that this procedure is a significant step in terms of information security, in the wake of the ban on the installation of Windows 8 in government institutions.

The government did not give any explanation tray and details about this work in particular.

It is noteworthy that China is the most country in the world that uses Windows XP and Microsoft products, making Microsoft lose a lot of market share.

     
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Sunday, June 29, 2014

Steve Ballmer tried to prevent Munich from moving to Linux

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Steve Ballmer tried to prevent Munich from moving to Linux

Munich, Germany city, it's not only one of the largest cities in Europe, but is also one of the first cities which had decided to abandon the Windows operating system, and the transfer of all the computers to the Linux system, in a large project with more than 15 thousand computers.

The plan of this migration, has begun since the last decade, and that the transition to a distribution called LiMux distribution official in the city of Munich; has served as evidence that open source products are able to replace the Microsoft products.

In spite of this, however, that this is faced considerable opposition, not only from internal officials, but also by organizations abroad, claiming that the move to open source may not be a successful investment.

Perhaps one of the biggest opponents, he was the "Steve Ballmer" (Executive Director of the above Microsoft Corporation), who is responsible for Microsoft's business in the city of Munich, when he decided to dispense with Windows.

An article which was published on opensource.com website, and citing information provided by the "Peter Hoffman," the head of the project LiMux, the Steve Ballmer himself decided to travel to Munich to discuss the mayor to convince him using Microsoft software instead of open source.

- Hoffman says:

Steve Ballmer has tried to convince the mayor that it would be a bad decision if you go to open source, it is difficult to manage and adopt it. 

But some members of the City Council gave him a strong response, saying :

How a person thinks, even if he is from a giant company, could have come here and simply, believing that he could change our decision?! 

What happened after that, was very funny, especially in the skills of Palmer in negotiation; Hoffman adds:
He was president of our municipality is prepared to hold a meeting with Steve Ballmer, and because English is not his native language, he asked the translator "What I'm saying if you do not have the right words to say to him?"; Replied the interpreter: "Be quiet, and after finishing his talk, little thought then say, "what can you offer us is not it?" and then during the meeting, the head of our municipality has nothing to say to Palmer, except to repeat the words, "what can you offer us is not it?" several times, and years later, Palmer has deeply impressed by the extent of the difficulties faced in the negotiations. "
In the end, Munich decided to turn to the Linux, and Microsoft has lost one of the most important battles in history; it is clear to us now evident that Munich is perfectly fine without Microsoft products.

[softpedia]

     
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Friday, March 28, 2014

After more than 30 years .. Microsoft gave away MS-DOS source code

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After more than 30 years .. Microsoft gave away MS-DOS source code

After more than three decades of its launch , the History Museum Computer in collaboration with Microsoft Corporation. to launch the source code of MS-DOS system which was released in the eighties of the last century and designed to work on IBM devices in that time, Microsoft released two versions of the MS-DOS source code, one of version 1.1, and the two of version 2.0, the funny thing is that their size, as compressed together is only 800 KB.

Microsoft has also gave away Word 1.1 source code to which was released in 1989 , the source code is about 7 MB in size and mostly written in the language C , but there are parts written Assembly.

word_for_windows_1.1

Microsoft Word , the one which is released in 1989 , occupied more than 90 % of the use of the editors in that time.

word processor market share

To download the MS-DOS source code, click here.
To download the Microsoft Word source code, click here.

     
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Windows 8.1 Adds Unity-Style Search Feature

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Windows 8.1 Adds Unity-Style Search Feature

The next update of the system Windows 8 - which is what is known as Blue or 8.1 - adds a new search experience to the desktop, Ubuntu users will are already familiar with this because it is similar to the existing one in Ubuntu (Unity).

Windows 8.1 inbuilt feature called Windows Search to provide search results and not just the results of local applications , files and settings on your computer , but also from the Internet and social networking sites ; resembles the Unity Dash in Ubuntu .


While Microsoft does not create something away from what in Unity , it is fair to say that Ubuntu was the first operating system that has made ​​the equation : " Find anything , anywhere ," a key part of the desktop.

- Microsoft says : " You can see everything you can do on your computer in one part , you can be running applications , and operates music , and even bring the results of the Web ."

There is an additional resemblance which is: that the Unity interface displays search results in the application browser  (DASH) , which also benefits from property Unity previews ( Unity previews ) to add more information and procedures , and in this context, Windows 8.1 has a new feature similar called "Search Heroes ".

Unity aims to do something similar with another new feature Smart Scopes , which aims to find what you 're looking for and then shows you the results that match with it.

Because Microsoft has a full search engine "Bing" not to mention a wide range of media content sites , there is no doubt that the results will be incredibly accurate .

 The most important point in this issue is that Ubuntu has proven itself among its competitors through this feature .


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Saturday, December 28, 2013

Happy Birthday Linus (Linux)

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Happy Birthday Linus (Linux)


Microsoft sends Linux a Happy Birthday video.
The video shows despite of the dispute between Penguin and Windows, Bill gates gave a birthday cake for Penguin which the penguin accepts it.

Microsoft sends a clear message , by saying "Linux and Microsoft" instead of the old one "Linux vs Microsoft".

Microsoft wants to work with Linux in the future.







     
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