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Ubuntu LTS Hardy Heron

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS(Long term support) alpha - 4 has been released. Its code named Hardy Heron. I decided to take it for a run and here are my first impressions
First a note: Alpha means the software is waiting to crash. It in development stage , so unless you are a developer or you have a [...]

MS vs MS ?

You’ve got to hand it to Microsoft. It hates ANYTHING and ANYONE that gets in its way of selling its software.
Including, apparently, itself.
In a very funny turn of events, Microsoft is out preaching to the industry that XP is a bloated expense hog, while the new Vista will cure world hunger (or, at least, [...]

India votes “no” for OOXML

The war of OpenDoc Format (ODF) vs. Office Open XML (OOXML) has reached the Indian shores. India on Thursday gave Microsoft a thumbs-down in the war of standards for office documents. In a tense meeting at Delhi’s Manak Bhawan, the 21-member technical committee decided that India will vote a ‘no’ against Microsoft’s Open Office Extensible [...]