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microsoft.com:
Microsoft Updates Windows Vista Road Map — Business availability for Windows Vista in November 2006, consumer availability in January 2007. — REDMOND, Wash. — March 21, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today confirmed that Windows Vista™, the next generation of the Windows® client operating system …
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Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
Vista 2007. Fire the leadership now! — 2007. It certainly sounded like Microsoft leadership committed to us, our customers, our partners, and our shareholders that Vista would be out in 2006. — Slip! — We should have asked for more details around the "or else" part of that commitment.
New York Times:
Microsoft to Delay Next Version of Windows — Microsoft's long effort to deliver the next version of its Windows operating system suffered another setback yesterday when the company said that the system would not be ready for consumer personal computers for the holiday sales season.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Vista debut hits a delay — update Microsoft on Tuesday announced a delay of Windows Vista that will mean PCs with the new operating system won't go on sale until January. — The software maker said it will still wrap up development of the operating system this year and make it available to volume licensing customers in November.
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Todd Bishop's Microsoft …, Michael Gartenberg, Download Squad, Open Sources …, Kevin 2.0 and TechSpot
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Monitor:
UNDERSTANDING WINDOWS VISTA'S DELAY (YES, ANOTHER) — It's true. This afternoon, Microsoft delayed Windows Vista. I won't play semantics. Microsoft can technically argue that the operating system will ship in 2006, because it will be ready for some businesses (assuming there are no more delays).
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Windows Vista delayed into January 2007 — Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system has been beset with another delay. After clearly pinpointing the holiday season of 2006 for launch, the company has now revised their primary launch period to 2007. — Jim Allchin, co-president …
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Windows Vista delayed — As you might have read by now, Windows Vista has been delayed. — I found this out while I was at Mix06 and in Las Vegas hanging out with the community. I have not had time to get educated on this issue and so I'll reserve most comment on it.
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Micro Persuasion
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Reuters:UPDATE 3-Microsoft delays consumer launch of Windows Vista
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Techdirt
sierrawireless.com:
Sierra Wireless introduces product line for next generation EV-DO networks — The AirCard® 595 wireless wide area network card and the MC5725 PCI Express Mini Card embedded module will offer increased data rates and faster uploads — Vancouver, British Columbia - Sierra Wireless …
linuxboxadmin.com:
What you get with sudo — What are you really gaining by using sudo in the default Mac OS X configuration? First, you gain some comfort that nobody can login as root, either locally or remotely via SSH or FTP and tamper with your machine. Second, you get a log entry in /var/log/system.log every …
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
danah.org:
Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad? — [Note: this is an essay that would've been a blog post but it got too long.] — A lot of folks have asked me "What went wrong with Friendster? Why is MySpace any different?" I guess i never directly answered that question, even though i've addressed the causes in other talks.
Mark Glaser / pbs.org:
Your Guide to Personalized News Sites — The great thing about getting your news online is that you are the person in control of your experience. You can visit the news sites and blogs that you like, and follow a trail of hyperlinks to learn about events happening around the world.
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Geeking with Greg
USA Today:
Yahoo calls on customers to try its new phone service — LOS ANGELES — Internet giant Yahoo (YHOO) Tuesday launched a new way to get a local telephone number for just $2.99 a month. — The calls have to be initiated from a PC, but can be made to traditional landline phones and cellphones.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Microsoft to offer cheap Xbox 360 game development kit? — SAN JOSE, Calif.—Since last spring when the Xbox 360 was first announced, one of the biggest concerns was that it would be too expensive for most game developers to create games for the next-generation console.
Ward / Nerd Vittles:
A Marriage Made in Heaven: Sprint Cellphone + Asterisk@Home = Unlimited U.S. Cell Phone Calls for $5 — Last week Sprint announced the availability (beginning today!) of a new add-on for existing and new Sprint cellphone customers. For $5 more a month and a little Yankee ingenuity …
Tim Lee / The Technology Liberation Front:
The DMCA, IBM Clones, and Intra-platform competition — I'm pleased to announce that my new Cato Policy Analysis, "Circumventing Competition: The Perverse Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act," is now available for download. — A lot of DMCA critics have focused …
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Timothy B. Lee / cato.org:Circumventing Competition: The Perverse Consequences of the Digital …
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Boing Boing
Reuters:
Apple says proposed French law smacks of piracy — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. said on Tuesday a proposed French law that would force Apple to make sure that songs bought on its iTunes music store can work on any portable player would result in "state-sponsored piracy."
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Mike / Techdirt:
Now That Plaxo Spam Has Annoyed Enough People, It's Time To Fade It Out? — from the dubious-reasons dept — For years, plenty of people have complained repeatedly about the scourge of "Plaxo spam." These are the constant bombardment of emails from new Plaxo users who have you in their address book …
