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It’s not every day that the entire technical press goes bonkers over news in the open source world, but that’s what happened last week, when Sun announced that it was buying MySQL. Doubtless, the pleasant roundness of the sum involved - $1 billion – helped, as did the fact that most of that was cash. But leaving aside the sense of satisfaction that events in the free software world should be suddenly thrust centre-stage, Sun’s move does raise a larger question about the fate of all open source start-ups.
2008 is off to a fine start for the world of Linux sound and music software, so this week’s story is straight reporting from Studio Dave, with breaking news from various points on the Linux audio compass.
Microsoft Windows Vista has hit the 100 million mark as revealed in the software giants latest earnings report. In an excerpt of the story here:
The milestone was revealed last week when the company released its quarterly earnings report.
The second quarter also set a record for Microsoft of $16.37bn in revenues, a 30 per cent increase over the same period last year.
“We are pleased with the progress of Windows Vista in the market,” said Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft’s platforms and services division.
“We have hit our stride with partners and customers and look forward to the release of our first service pack later this quarter.”
Microsoft claimed that its Client branch has grown by 20 per cent since Vista was released to business customers in November 2006.
Tags: Microsoft, Vista, Windows
Bombay, India. While the official name of the city is now “Mumbai”, the name “Bombay” is still used by a lot of the inhabitants, and its use draws images of one of the world’s largest cities, a gateway to the sub-continent. Therefore an invitation to speak at Techfest 2008 (http://www.techfest.org/), a large student-organized technical showcase, was impossible to turn down.
Windows Vista SP1 release date is closing in and speculation says that the service pack is be released on February 15. Microsoft has been aggressive in releasing builds to its private testers and they have issued the second build in the last two weeks.
It is expected that Microsoft would soon release this build to the public as what they earlier did with previous release candidates.
We’ll just have to wait a little longer for the service pack and hopefully this bring lot of sale surges for Microsoft.
Windows Vista was shipped with a more tedious anti-piracy features that makes you go the extra step registering and stuff which has finally paid off for Microsoft.
Technology Business Review, Inc has analyzed that Microsoft got an extra $77M from their anti-piracy moves. That is a lot of money for spare change. In an excerpt of the story found here:
The bounce to Microsoft’s bottom line, calculated by Allan Krans, an analyst at Technology Business Review Inc., was $77 million.
“Since the Windows market is so saturated, they’re looking for any niches to increase their revenue line beyond PC growth, and antipiracy is one of those areas,” said Krans. “The opportunity isn’t substantial, but it’s still revenue. If they can tweak an extra $100 million or so a quarter, they’ll take it.”
Vista Sales May Be Looking Up (InternetNews)
Windows Vista Helps Microsoft Report Record Growth (InformationWeek)
Microsoft Swats At Pesky Windows Rumors (CRN)
Windows 7: The Anti-Vista? (ZDNet)
To be able to generate a system health report in Windows Vista; click on Control Panel, then Performance Information and Tools, then on the left side menu click on Advanced Tools followed by “Generate a system health report”
For 60 seconds or so, Windows Vista will generate a system health report for you similar to the one below:
