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More Calls for Ballmer to Step Down
Looks like Business 2.0 is in agreement [1] with Joel [2] that it's time for Ballmer to step down from Microsoft.
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Joel On Ballmer
"As of now, Microsoft stock is surprisingly quiet given the announcement that Bill Gates will step down. It should probably be going down. Ozzie is smart but not in the same class as Bill Gates. And it's really Ballmer that needs to go." [1]
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Adobe Earnings Down, Macromedia's CEO Gets the Boot
In today's non-Microsoft related news:
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Say Goodbye to Mr. Gates
Looks like bill will be stepping down from full time at Microsoft to focus on the Gates Foundation. Ray Ozzie and Craig Mudie will be taking over in his place.
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WinFx = .NET 3.0
If you haven't heard, Win FX is going to be known simply the .NET Framework 3.0. Ok, that makes sense. However, changing InfoCard to Windows CardSpace? Not so sure about that one...
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Windows > RedHat
via Scoble:
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SWF, is it Really Open?
So, Adobe is threatening to sue Microsoft in regard to supporting PDF and XPS in Office... I wonder what is going to happen with the supposedly open SWF format... It's a good thing Microsoft didn't follow JD's advice and integrate it into their products. But I wonder.... if Microsoft bundles WPF/E with future Vista or IE versions, will Adobe sue to remove WPF/E?
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Adobe Screws You Over
If you haven't heard about the whole Adobe nonsense lately, you should. Adobe is really doing a good job of being a little brat and complicating matters for millions of Office users around the world.
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Tim O'Reilly's Big Fat Head (2.0)
Apparently, Tim O'Reilly is in agreement [1] with his company's moves on trying to monopolize the Web 2.0 term. The worst part about this ordeal is that his company is acting as if we wouldn't have any term to call this whole next-generation web if it wasn't for his conference. I have news for you Tim, you didn't popularize the term, the people who spoke at your conference did. You didn't invent anything, you just came up with a catchy term to describe something that already happened and now you want to act like you own the concept.
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Google is About to Get a New Face
Doug Bowman, who had a hand creating the awesome Google Calendar UI, has been hired as Visual Design Lead to help "the company establish a common visual language across all their collaborative and communication products." Maybe this means the days of google's hideous UIs are numbered? I hope so. Google Calendar is slick, everything else is just blah.