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: Warۤow 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
- Newer Not Better: Treadmill Updates Cause Problems
- after 2 years the un-updated machines still fine
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 136 Out of 200: Lawyers That Get Paid to Mess About
- They were already outnumbered and understaffed
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- Gemini Links 01/08/2026: Planner Season is Upon Us, Slop "Apocalypse", and USENET
- Links for the day
- Cuts at IBM, Allegedly More Shutdowns to Come, CEO Visits Complicit Media to Promote Lies and Products That Will Never Exist (Misleading Shareholders)
- IBM is collapsing
- Links 01/08/2026: GAFAM Falling Deep Into Trillion in (Secret) Debt to Keep the Slop Bubble From Popping Already, Anger Over "FIFA’s World Cup Privatisation Plan"
- Links for the day
- The Cyber Show on the Slop Bubble
- new article about the implosion of the slop bubble
- Links 01/08/2026: New York Times Trying to Inflate the Slop Pyramid Scheme (at Cost to Its Own Reputation) and "Iran Appears to Be Blasting Amazon Data Centers Off the Map"
- Links for the day
- Positive Political Momentum
- Daniel Pocock is taken seriously by many people who contact us privately
- Google "AI" is Plagiarism, the Case of Richard Stallman (RMS)
- Why would anyone choose LLM slop over the originals, curated and fact-checked by domain experts?
- Explaining That Software Patents Are Neither Legal Nor Desirable
- Many of our readers work in the legal sector
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 31, 2026
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- Gemini Links 01/08/2026: Retirement, Bike Trips, Quake Stuff, Usenet Reborn
- Links for the day
- Links 31/07/2026: Microsoft Now Says Slop is Bad (LinkedIn Cracks Down on It), LinkedIn Narrows Down Size (No Expansion)
- Links for the day
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: From Alicante to Munich: Another Smooth Ride
- Campinos is intent on transforming what was originally envisaged as a temporary public office into his own permanent personal feather-bed
- Daniel Pocock and the Important Observation About Threats of Cult-Like Behaviours (No Rationality, No Reason, Just "Mob Rule")
- It's a threat to Europe's sovereignty
- The "PIP Parade" of IBM's Lousy Management, Which Said "Blockchain" Was the Future
- In a healthy company such a CEO would be punished for utterly wrong visions and predictions. Not at IBM...
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 135 Out of 200: Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) That Does Not Disclose Financial Activities Before August
- It certainly looks like they keep losing the remaining women that still exist in the firm
- Links 31/07/2026: "Climate Cover-Up Continues" and Pesticides "Cook the Planet"
- Links for the day
- Datacentre 'Boom' Sceptics Aren't Luddites, They Recognise a Threat to Human Survival (Not Limited to Climate Change)
- Archaeologists very well know that no species will survive forever
- Microsoft's Claims Are Based on a Big Lie
- the bubble is coming to its hard limits
- Don't Lose Sight of the Impact of "End of 10" (Vista 10)
- GNU/Linux has taken off fast
- Microsoft's Debt Continues to Steadily Increase, Not Counting Hundreds of Billions in Secret/Hidden Debt
- The mass layoffs will carry on, maybe labelled LITE
- IBM is Circling Down the Drain, the 'Growth' Comes From Beancounting Tricks and Salary Cuts
- IBM was down 2.17% yesterday
- Microsoft's "Headcount" Distracts From How Big a Cull It Had This Month
- It also speaks of numbers "[a]s of June 30" though the "buyouts" were effective July 1 and since then well over 10,000 workers have vanished
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 30, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, July 30, 2026
- Gemini Links 31/07/2026: Music, Journaling, and Longing
- Links for the day
- More Fake News From (and for) IBM, Nobody Ever Held Accountable for Fraud
- Companies that turn a blind eye to their own corruption end up recruiting more corrupt people and sacking those who object to the corruption
- Links 30/07/2026: Smol Document Server and More PalmOS-ing
- Links for the day
- Links 30/07/2026: Microsoft Refuting Its Own Slop Hype and "Amazon Is Gutting Its Hey Hi (AI) Division" (GAFAM Bubble)
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- Today The Register MS Published "AI" Spam and Fake Article by "Senior Technical Marketing Engineer"
- unethical practices
- Cult inquiry parliament leak fallout
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Techrights Will Always Protect Sources
- Our #1 priority is sources
- European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Legal Concerns and Suspicions of Irregularities
- complaints submitted to OLAF
- The Era of Silence
- So stay silent, remain hidden
- GAFAM and IBM Dying in Massive Debt, Hence the Mass Layoffs (Increasingly Silent Layoffs That the Media Fails to Mention)
- the integrity of this economy is only as good as its leaders or those who govern the market
- TheLayoff.com Deletes Comment That Called IBM's Previous CEO, Ginni Rometty, "Gin 'n Tonic"
- It is hard to believe the comment was deleted for being a duplicate (in another thread)
- The Mainstream Media Continues to Overlook or Intentionally Ignore Hundreds of Billions in Hidden/Secret Microsoft Debt
- the issue is that Microsoft's crisis is a lot greater and broader than this
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 134 Out of 200: What "Majority Rules" Tell Us About the Litigant
- we press on with this series
- Overshoot Day Sites That Contribute to the Problem
- Some of these are not even accessible (at all) without JavaScript
- Microsoft May Have Gotten Rid of 8% of Its Workforce This Month
- It's hard to know what's really going on because there's no transparency due to NDAs
- Links 30/07/2026: "Age of Irrationality", Google Losing Money, and "House of Ellison is on the Brink"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 30/07/2026: Homeworlds Notes and Manuscript Submitted
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 29, 2026
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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