Links 07/05/2008: Yahoo-Microsoft Post Mortem, GNU/Linux Ultra-Portables Overview
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-07 14:59:56 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-07 14:59:56 UTC
- Is Microsoft Aura Fading?
- Will Microsoft Stream Office to Users?
- Microsoft's Google challenge remains
- Microsoft running out of options
- MS UK kills mystery 'Live to Code' site
- Ahead of the Bell: Microsoft-Yahoo fallout may help Google
- Failed Microhoo Deal Primes Google for Enterprise
- Without Yahoo, Microsoft remains alone on the Web
- Google Ends Microsoft’s Yahoo Search
- Yahoo Open Strategy could be its salvation
- Is Microsoft Weaker After Failed Takeover Bid?
- Spurned by Yahoo!, Microsoft may buy Asian firms -- analyst
- Bill Gates: Microsoft going 'independent' way
- Free and Open Source Software Guide for SMEs
- Do we need another CERT?
- Opinion: Malware vs. anti-malware, 20 years into the fray
- Malware outbreak blamed on file-swapped MP3s, MPEGs
- DHS grilled over uber secret cybersecurity plans
- Response Team Boosts Open Source Security
- Pondering when your next break-in will happen
- Hacker marketplace to help build 0day appliance
- Low-cost laptop group lands in Australia
- Meet The Hardy Heron: What's New in Ubuntu 8.04
- Sun unveils RIA toolset, new project for developers
- JavaFX: A Bright Future on Open Source-Based Mobile Devices?
- Sun's JavaFX to hoover-up user data
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu a fan of free music
- Counterclaims for extortion, conspiracy, trespass, consumer fraud & abuse, abuse of process upheld in Atlantic v. Boyer
- Switched On: The Linux ultraportable opportunity
- Everyone loves the Eee
- GNU/Linux: Source Code and Human Rights
- MSN Music Debacle Highlights EULA Dangers
- PS3 edges ahead of Xbox 360
- Review: Vista-intosh: VMware Gone Fusion
- Opening up Psystar's Open Computer
- Oracle: Eating its Own Open Source Food
- After Oracle, Former Sleepycat CEO Hunts For Next Gig
- What Makes Software High-Quality?
- Windows Vista: The 'New Coke' of the PC Age
- Mozilla Nearing the Finish Line for Firefox 3.0 - Over 14,000 improvements from Firefox 2
- OpenSolaris: Nice, But Not There Yet
- OpenSolaris 2008.05: Notes from the field
- Moving to Ubuntu
- Easiest Install EVER - Linux Ubuntu Desktop
- Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on the Eee PC
- Top hackers kept on News Corp unit payroll 'for years'
- Linux Got Game: War€§ow 0.42
- Mass Effect DRM goes too far
- Red Hat signs partnership agreement with Cybercom
- Does a Linux OS perform better than a Windows ?
- Microsoft warns of IE7 lock-in with XP SP3
- Troll treasure: an in-depth look at Qt 4.4
- Get some AIR on Linux
- Harmony Universal Remotes Get Unofficial Linux Support
Recent Techrights' Posts
- The World Needs Activists With Social Skills and Perseverance
- An everyday activist makes life better for everybody, everywhere (not for personal gain or even credit)
- Intercontinental Brigading - Part XI - Losing Over a Million Pounds (Borrowed Money) to Try to Silence Critics of Restricted Boot With Microsoft-Controlled "Certificates"
- Garrett is also very jealous of Daniel Pocock
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- Links 22/10/2026: MElon (Elon Musk) Election Interference and Perl/Raku Foundation by the Numbers
- Links for the day
- Techrights Audience Grew as a Function of the Intensity of Attacks on Its Existence
- We try to publish fewer stories but better (not necessarily long but at least important) stories
- TechRepublic is Becoming a Slopfarm
- It seems like TechRepublic became LLM slop (maybe all of it, maybe only some of it for now)
- Techrights is Not About GNU/Linux, Tux Machines Is
- When we say "GNU/Linux" we emphasise the GNU
- Intercontinental Brigading - Part XII - Lawfare to Cover Up Microsoft's Restricted Boot Calamity (Microsoft as Authority Over Linux), Garrett Wants to Talk About Penises Instead
- When lawsuits become a political weapon
- Without Microsoft's Monopoly (and Monopoly Rents) the Inevitable Microsoft Mass Layoffs Carry on Endlessly
- Microsoft Windows is not retaining the dominance it once had
- IBM's Debt Grew About $2 Billion in 3 Months
- The silent layoffs still seem to impact Red Hat
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC logs for Thursday, October 22, 2026
- Gemini Links 22/10/2026: Solar MiniBBS, Building Major Tom, and Zig
- Links for the day
- Links 22/10/2026: Busan’s Celebrity Shark in Canal Again
- Links for the day
- Links 22/10/2026: "Software Developers Have Been Promoted Into Incompetence"
- Links for the day
- Links 22/10/2026: eBay to Lay Off a Tenth of Staff (Again), Node.js and PHP Security Crises, Climate News
- Links for the day
- Red Hat Layoffs Still Going on This Week (Whilst IBM's Debt Grows in Spite of Mass Layoffs)
- IBM is bluffing/cheating the shareholders again
- IBM's Debt Continues to Increase While the Company Rapidly Shrinks
- This is what a dying company looks like
- Linux Kernel Needs Diversity and Diversity of Good Code, Not LLM Slop
- Linux (and Linus) are kicking a can down the road
- Microsoft Shrinks Every Year
- Microsoft will try to spin or twist this as "efficiency"
- Gemini Links 22/10/2026: Holiday Inn and Emacs
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 21, 2026
- IRC logs for Wednesday, October 21, 2026
- Techrights Was Right About a Fake Security Model Built Around Lies or Built Upon Trust in "Certificates" and "Authorities" (like Microsoft)
- We have begun to amass some media reports and blog posts from technical sites
- Windows Monopoly is No Longer Sustainable (the Case of Oceania)
- This is why Microsoft layoffs are happening all the time
- Some Downtime Possible Shortly (Router Work)
- We don't use PHP in the site anymore
- Mass Layoffs at Microsoft This Week and/or Next Week
- Cannot pull a bunny out of some hat
- With Its Future on the Line, EPO Management (Dictatorship) Resorts to Further Escalations to Fake 'Production' and Curtail Industrial Actions
- It's clear that with a yearlong campaign of industrial actions - including strikes - Campinos cannot save face anymore
- Gemini Links 21/10/2026: Summer Day in Tokyo (30c in Late October) and Whole Food for the Whole World
- Links for the day
- Links 21/10/2026: "Zelensky Took the Gloves Off This Time With Convicted Felon" and "Cellebrite iPhone Radio Zero-Day"
- Links for the day
- Reuters is Becoming Slop, Not a News Agency (Treat Reports From Reuters Sceptically)
- In their own words
- Disclosure/s Crisis at The Register MS (Promoting a Ponzi Scheme for Money)
- So now they sell several schemes/scams at the same time, not limited to the slop
- Links 21/10/2026: "The Tragic Death of the Republican Party" and "No War But Data Center War"
- Links for the day
- Internet Relay Chat Still Growing
- The numbers go up, not down [...] Don't believe the doomers
- Intercontinental Brigading - Part X - American Back Doors Inside Our Computers, With Transatlantic Swatting Against Critics Thrown 'Into the Mix'
- "If your Windows PC's Secure Boot certificates are out of date, your system is vulnerable to malware like rootkits."
- Gemini Links 21/10/2026: A Walk Through Amsterdam and Pythagorean Theorem
- Links for the day
- More Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Weeks From Now, Then Again Months From Now
- Microsoft's crisis is not limited to XBox
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 20, 2026
- IRC logs for Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Comments
Challenger
2008-05-07 17:48:08
Software life cycle :
10% - Tipping point - (hardcore techies) 30% - Rapid growth - (IT people) 50% - Consumer, User level 80% - Domination
What we are seeing is that Linux has crossed the tipping point.
Next level it has to scale it to the common tech people. It will take a few more years. This is in progress...
Linux has a long way to go...
How long till Linux desktop nirvana ?
:D