The Register - SoftwareBiting the hand that feeds ITOpera update fixes stability bugs- July 4, 2008 And mystery code injection flaw Opera released an update to the latest version of its browser on Thursday.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/04/opera_update/ Microsoft gets hip with da yoof to flog email- July 4, 2008 Doing it for charidee What could be more insincere than a bunch of marketing types concocting a fake blog to pimp their company's services by hitching them to worthy causeshttp://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/04/fake_microsoft_blog/ BSA slams EC's 'narrow-minded' interoperability vision- July 4, 2008 EIF 2.0 draft ruffles some proprietary software feathers An open standards row is brewing between the EC and a lobbying group for software multinationals over a proposed European framework on interoperability a draft of which is due to be published on 15 July.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/04/european_interoperability_... Oracle risks loss of influential BEA users- July 4, 2008 Free from Applications Unlimited During its trumpeted webcast on plans for BEA Systems, Oracle's top brass stressed their commitment to middleware to keep the new flock happy. So it purchased BEA to expand Oracle's presence in Asia and Japan - that wasn't the point.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/04/oracle_bea_survey/ Nut launches death threats at Debian women- July 3, 2008 'You're killing freesource' Exclusive Women working on Debian have been getting death threats from a nut job who believes they're killing free software.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/03/debian_death_threats/ Strange cults, vocal surgery and the quiet man: Inside Microsoft- July 3, 2008 Mary-Jo Foley on life after Gates Radio Reg Who'd have thought a bad haircut and rocking backwards and forwards in your chair like a child with ADD could pass as must-have traits Yet, such was the cult of Bill Gates at Microsoft, company employees adopted these to become more like their boss.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/03/mary_jo_foley_microsoft_po... Microsoft flogs subscriptions to the unwary and confused- July 3, 2008 Bad omens Comment There's no such thing as a coincidence or a missed opportunity in the world of Microsoft, and this is no ordinary week.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/03/microsoft_subscription_ser... ISO certifies Adobe's PDF- July 3, 2008 Standard delivers, albeit at leisurely pace The International Standardisation Organisation has ratified Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) as an official international standard, though it won't make PDF documents load any faster.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/03/pdf_iso_standard/ Firefox 3 makes up world record to set world record- July 3, 2008 Oh-oh, dedication download's what you need The Mozilla Foundation has officially set a previously non-existent Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in a day.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/03/firefox_3_official_world_r... Moody's to fix sub-prime computer error- July 3, 2008 CCC rating (That's Credit crunch computer cock-up) Moody's, the ratings agency, is reviewing its computer models and setting up a central monitoring system after admitting that a bug led it to incorrectly grade several European mortgage debt instruments.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/03/moodys_computer_bug/ |