Monthly Archives: June 2001

It won’t be easy, and it won’t be quick, but I’m going to work to see if I can get myself off of Microsoft software. There’s no way to do wean myself from Microsoft completely, given its pervasiveness. And I … Continue reading →

The San Jose Mercury News received a copy of an e-mail from Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, to all employees. It contains several brazen falsehoods — including the claim that the appeals court found the company guilty only of “individual actions” … Continue reading →

I’m on my way to London to speak at the NetMedia 2001 conference. No updates until tomorrow at the earliest. Comments

I’m running the Opera browser and just ordered an Apple iBook. Eventually I hope to find a way to divest myself entirely of Microsoft products. Comments

The instant-messaging crowd understands the value of a persistent connection with another person online. Connecting people this way provides a better conversation in many cases. Now companies are taking this concept into the machine-to-machine realm, and coming up with great … Continue reading →

O’Reilly Network: Microsoft Plans Shared Source .NET. Specifically, Microsoft says it has been working with the ECMA standards body and will release ECMA versions of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), a C# compiler, and an ECMAscript compiler. Fascinating — this … Continue reading →

Walter Mossberg (Wall Street Journal): Microsoft Will Abandon Controversial Smart Tags. Microsoft continues to defend the Smart Tag idea in principle, and the company plans to work toward including it in a future release of Windows or of the browser, … Continue reading →

San Francisco Chronicle: State privacy bill dies amid voting flip-flop. After two dozen banking and insurance company lobbyists said the measure would wreck their industry, the Assembly Banking and Finance Committee sank the bill with a 5-to-3 vote, one vote … Continue reading →

Adam Barr disagrees with my praise of this view of Smart Tags on A List Apart. Here’s Adam’s take. Comments

Craig Mundie and Bruce Perenshave made initial postings in our week-long “Silicon Valley Roundtable” on open source and free software’s relationship to commercial products. It’s already interesting, in part because Perens has noted a remarkable new piece of Microsoft corporate … Continue reading →