VMWare, the maker of virtualization software, is fighting a hard battle against Microsoft. Microsoft has all the money in the world in order to ruin the efforts of its fly-weight rival, and only MS’s lack of consideration for Linux prolonged VMWare’s very existence to this day. Thus VMWare decided to spend some of its small budget into some weird type of advertising. (more…)
Next thing, Behemoth will tell you how many gmails you read from your zero folders. I don’t think anybody would care about such features or enjoy such privacy intrusions, even if the system would work.
Apparently, the Sharp/Danger/T-Mobile Sidekick is a Microsoft phone. Now I understand why the poor phone runs out of memory so often. Microsoft buying Danger is one of those moves that MS employs in order to replace lack of innovation. In the old days, the software created by the 3-4 Danger employees should be written by the Windows CE team in two days. Should Apple make that software, it will take a week for the code and three months for filming the ads. The purchase will achieve even less than the buyouts of aQuantive or GIANT - can anybody point what exactly those companies were producing? As usual in recent years, Microsoft (under the appearance of desperation) divests again money from the shareholders into so-called investments.
Recently, the Yen stood strongly against the decline of the majority of the Western currencies. This is why you might want to move your savings into an Yen account. Citibank Japan does just that: anybody can use this web form to open an account. When I say anybody, I really mean anybody - including citizens of the long-gone countries such as the Byelorussian SSR and the Socialist Republic of Romania.