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Microsoft's EU troubles have resurfaced. The European Union's new complaint against Microsoft really takes one back. Like, a decade or so. Its objection--that bundling a browser into the operating system violates antitrust law--is the same one that U.S. regulators raised in 1996. The newest allegations stem from a 2007 complaint by Norway's Opera that Microsoft was hurting competition by including Internet Explorer in Windows and by not better adhering to Web standards.
Apple investors are looking at legal options over Jobs' health. After watching billions of dollars evaporate on news that Steve Jobs will take a medical leave of absence - just a week after the cancer survivor advised people to relax because his health problems were easily treated - some Apple shareholders are likely thinking about lawsuits. Legal experts say the strength of those lawsuits would hinge on who at Apple knew what, and when.
Intel are delaying the launch of their Lynnfield chips. Intel has recently decided to postpone its next-generation mainstream CPU Lynnfield along with the P55 chipset to the end of August or the beginning of September this year, and may postpone them to an even later time depending on the market situation, according to sources at motherboard makers.
Screenshots of the new MS Office have been leaked. What will the next version of Microsoft Office look like? Leaked screenshots of an alpha version recently released to testers suggest that, in short, ribbon menus rule. However, the Office 14 ribbon menus seem to have been influenced by the ribbon menu used in some of Windows 7's accessories, rather than being simply a rehash of Office 2007's version.
Ubuntu apparently causes school drop-outs. After receiving her new Dell notebook, a young female student at Madison Area Technical College (MATC) in Wisconsin realized it contained Ubuntu for an operating system (a version of Linux), and not Windows. Unable to load her Verizon High-Speed Internet CD and the subsequent inability to access the Internet, coupled with no Microsoft Word (which is a MATC requirement), she dropped out of school for two semesters.
There's a new coke machine on the block. If you're lucky enough to head to one of the 190-plus (and growing!) malls owned by the Simon Property Group sometime in the not too distant future, you just might have the pleasure of getting your cold, satisfying beverage from one of the new-fashioned touch screen Coke machines from Sapient. The screen is pretty much the entire front of the machine, and the interface is simple (as you'd expect), but pretty cool nonetheless -- select your pop bottle, spin it around, take a look at the ingredients, and vend -- quasi-Minority Report-style.
Finally, here's the Star Wars Trilogy, as told by someone who has never seen it.It's Friday afternoon, so here's a little something to distract you from that horrible thing called work. It's a video retelling of the original Star Wars films by a girl who hasn't actually seen any of the them in their entirety, but has picked up on snippets here and there. The end result, as I'm sure you will agree, is hilarious.
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