Tuesday, September 02, 2003|
Microsoft Prepares Office Lock-in
Posted by
michael
on Tuesday September 02, @01:27PM
from the stupid-business-lining-up-to-lock-themselves-in dept.
An anonymous reader writes "NEWS.COM has an article describing Office 2003's DRM features for documents.
This will not only coerce those running older versions of Office to
upgrade, which has been a problem for MS in the last few years, but it
will also shut out competing software, such as OpenOffice. Now think
about this for a second. Even if the developers of a competing office
suite could figure out how to get their software to open an Office 2003
document, doing so would be a DMCA violation, since they'd be bypassing
an anti-circumvention device. I certainly hope the OpenOffice team will
kick development into high gear. If there was a time we need a viable
competitor to Office, it's now." |
Microsoft Prepares Office Lock-in
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E-mail Newsletters Switching To RSS
Posted by
timothy
on Monday September 01, @10:13PM
from the click-here-to-unsubscribe-222n8dd67 dept.
prostoalex writes "The wide spread of unsolicited e-mails is leading publishers and site owners towards subscription-based RSS, the InternetNews.com article says. Chris Pirillo from LockerGnome
is quoted saying that people just do not subscribe to free e-mail
newsletters anymore, making a broad assumption that anyone offering
them would be a spammer. This short article on About.com
also argues for the RSS as preferred format for newsletters, site
headlines and all sorts of updates that were e-mailed to customers
before." |
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PHP growing surprisingly strongly on Windows. Although PHP is universally thought of as implying Linux, Apache and MySQL, nearly 7% of PHP sites [when counting by ip address] run on Windows. This has doubled over the last year, and on its current growth trajectory PHP will overtake Cold Fusion as the most popular non-Microsoft scripting language used on Windows during the next year. [Netcraft] Of note. This is possible because of the ongoing development of PHP that makes it work better on the Windows platform as well as its support for things like MSSQL and windows authentication. 11:17:13 AM 
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Last update: 3/18/2004; 6:20:00 PM .
