Asia seeks to log off Microsoft

China, Japan and South Korea eschew Microsoft in favor of Linux, an opensource system that uses code jointly developed by thousands of programmers and free to use.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/international/8343362.htm

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Business Judge rules Microsoft can sue Lindows.com Saturday April 03, 2004 - [ 05:00 PM GMT ] Printer-friendly Email Story Topics: Business By: Pham-Duy Nguyen

Microsoft Corp. can pursue its lawsuits in Europe against Linux software maker Lindows.com over the Windows trademark, a U.S. judge ruled.

U.S. District Judge John Coughenour in Seattle rejected Lindows.com's request to put seven overseas suits on hold until a trademark-infringement suit in the U.S. is decided. Microsoft claims the Lindows.com name confuses consumers and dilutes the trademark for Windows, the operating system software that runs more than 90 percent of the world's personal computers

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Concealed Research Benefits No One Posted on Thursday 01 April @ 18:47:56 | Send this story to a friend | Printable Version ResearchI really have to say that as a person who is capable of reading through research with a very critical eye for potential violations in the scientific method, I find most market research to be utterly useless sound-byte material that isn’t fit for printing. If you cannot share the methods of your research, then your research simply will not stand the test of time. Of course, if you never share the methods, sample selection, or size, then it makes it harder to refute the statistical power of your assertions.

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Xandros Offers Free Trial Of Business Edition discuss Discuss this now (1 posts) Linux vendor Xandros Inc. on Friday said it would offer customers a fully functional 30-day evaluation version of its Xandros Business Desktop OS.

The software can be downloaded from the company's e-commerce website for no charge. Normally, the software costs $129 for a single-user licenses or $495 for a five-license package.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1560806,00.asp