Day: August 19, 2006

The “Macs Break Too” Podcast of Dr. Bill!

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Dr. Bill Podcast – 50 – (08/19/06)
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A podcast promo for the Mac Attack Podcast from the Techpodcasts Network, and a follow-up Mac advertisement parody that shows that even Mac users have problems with their systems! Show your Linux pride: FREE “Powered By Ubuntu” stickers for your computer case, Gamers, rejoice! Now YOU can build your own Xbox games, Microsoft has a plan to get “Open Source”-like collaboration working to build Xbox 360 games, Warning: DLink router security hole! Make sure that your Dlink Router is WPA secured! Test your bandwidth speed with a cool, graphical “speedometer” interface on the web! The fallout of the explosive Dell laptop batteries… Old comic books… available for download in RAR compressed archives! The real meanings of (old) computer acronyms! Star Trek: BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) A frustrated Data deals with an Enterprise running off of Windows! Spyware on the rise due to Social Networking sites according to new study by Webroot. A NEW Geek Software of the Week: K9 Web Protection Software! Help your kids and family “surf safe!” And finally… Microsoft Office for Linux?!?!? Are you kidding!?!?!

Microsoft Office… for Linux?!?!?

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You’ve got to be kidding!!! Yet, in a perverse way, this would make some sense! Obviously, if true, it would mean that Microsoft is REALLY feeling the heat of upcoming Linux desktop systems like SuSE 10, Freespire, and Ubuntu. I can remember, many years ago, when Microsoft released an Office for the Apple Mac… and it slowed Mac sales… why? Because it slowed innovation in that arena, and gelled the Micorosoft dominance of the Office word processor, spreadsheet, etc. space.

Microsoft Office for Linux ‘inevitable’

“Microsoft within the ‘next couple of years’ will release a version of its Office productivity to run on Linux, Stuart Cohen, chief executive for the Open Source Development Labs, predicted in an interview with vnunet.com at the Linuxworld conference in San Francicso. ‘They did it once with Apple, they will do it again with Linux,’ Cohen said. The OSDL consortium aims to advance Linux and open source. The organization employs Linux founder Linus Torvalds and is funded by IT vendors including IBM, HP and Intel.The software developer will be compelled to create a Linux version in a move to preempt the further rise of the open source OpenOffice productivity suite, Cohen argued. ‘They’ll go fight the total cost of ownership with a very inexpensive office solution. I don’t think that they will open source Office , but they will make it available to run on Linux desktops.'”