A couple of weeks ago: Bad Year for Microsoft in India (and Another All-Time Low, Windows at 12% "Market Share") ...

If the EFF is supporting prostitution, promiscuity, and all sorts of fringe ideas that vex and irritate a lot of the general population and have little (or nothing) to do with privacy, free speech, ...

In some cases, the poor recognition or parsing or classification of User-Agent strings means that trends get distorted very badly. In the case of India, "Unknown" rising from 7.5% to almost 23% in a ...

This is not "innovation", this is marketing spam created by bots. It makes Beta'News' worse than worthless. It's a source of Web pollution, aside from their habitual Microsoft propaganda. The chief ...

The managers and executives typically know ahead of time what's coming (or what lies ahead). Heck, they're sometimes part of these hurtful (to staff) decisions. They want "out" before the outcry ...

Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) is a Far Bigger Problem Than Some Unintentional Bugs (Not Back Doors) in Software. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 08, 2 ...

OpenSUSE might not be around for much longer, certainly not with the name "OpenSUSE". It's the same thing that happened to Fedora and Planet OpenSUSE has become almost empty. Volunteers with ...

IBMers Question IBM's Decision to Send Money to "Chinese Military Companies" in Spite of US Sanctions. posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 08, 2025. Notice of Availability of Designa ...

It has just been revealed that Microsoft has mass layoffs on the way (ahead of the fake "results"; it'll try to impress investors with "cost-cutting" and maybe say the layoffs are "b/coz hey hi ...

JUST like last month (or prior ones) and just like the other social control media (for coders enslaved by Microsoft), LinkedIn is going downhill. It also lays off a lot of staff (several waves of mass ...