The UltraTech Zone

I haven't had a whole lot of time recently to check in on Community Server, so when I took a peek at the forums this morning, I was surprised to see that there had been an update posted on licensing for CS2007, and this spawned a massive thread, along with quite a few blog entries, including this one by Tom Lynch. There has certainly been a whole ...

The tech news is all abuzz about the announcement that Microsoft and Novell are working together on product integration, including integration between Windows and Linux technologies. Several people have already commented that this is a strategic move by Microsoft to combat Oracle's Linux play, and also to somewhat blunt the threat the Linux poses ...

The tech news is all abuzz about the announcement that Microsoft and Novell are working together on product integration, including integration between Windows and Linux technologies. Several people have already commented that this is a strategic move...(read more)

As expected, Microsoft has softened a key element of Vista licensing, enabling (more like re-enabling, if you think about it) users to transfer their retail license from one system to another, without restriction -- so long as they aren't shared simultaneously. Personally, I think that Microsoft floated this change to Vista knowing full well that ...

As expected, Microsoft has softened a key element of Vista licensing , enabling (more like re-enabling, if you think about it) users to transfer their retail license from one system to another, without restriction -- so long as they aren't shared simultaneously....(read more)

This post has two purposes.  I'm finding the conflict over the proposed GPL version 3 rather interesting, and I'm also taking a moment to play with a few of the WLW plug-ins, such as the Acronym inserter and the Blog-This add-in for IE. Link to FSF rebuts anti-GPLv3 claims | Tech News on ZDNet I wonder which ...