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A Seattle labor group said it has new evidence that Microsoft is shifting high-level work to foreign contractors, including work on the next version of Windows. But the company said nothing has changed, and its core products are still built by company employees. Microsoft has long hired outside companies to supplement its labor force and develop partnerships in the technology industry, but its activities in India are being scrutinized amid the national debate over the outsourcing of technology work to developing countries such as India. A concern is that even the highest-skilled and best-paying work, such as software development, is...

Software components reported to Vole Central By INQUIRER staff: Tuesday 25 February 2003, 14:21 A REPORT ON a German site claims that Microsoft extracts more information from a person's PC when the update Windows facility is used running the WinXP operating system. According to tecCHANNEL, it has deciphered which data is transferred to Microsoft Central whenever you connect to its update web site. The site's tecDUMP utility intercepts messages which were deciphered in the course of an exchange with Microsoft. And, the site claims, the information can pass on to Microsoft a list of all of the software installed on...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc. SUNW.O will announce on Wednesday plans for inexpensive desktop computers based on the free Linux operating system in a bid to undermine archrival Microsoft Corp.MSFT.O . Marking a second plunge into world of Linux, a free, collaboratively developed operating system, the Sun machines will be based on cheap commodity parts and ship in a few quarters, Vice President John Loiacono said in an interview. Sun's announcement came at the start of a user conference, SunNetwork, beginning Wednesday in San Francisco. Sun is known for its million-dollar machines that manage networks and...

HP today announced that HP ProLiant servers have delivered the first Linux TPC-C benchmark results running Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters on the Red Hat Linux Advanced Server operating system. With this benchmark, HP ProLiant servers become the first industry-standard server platform to offer enterprise-class performance for a clustered Oracle database in a Linux environment. Demonstrating the cost and maintenance benefits of running Linux-based hardware and software in enterprise-operating environments, an 8-node cluster of HP ProLiant DL580 servers using Intel® Pentium® III Xeon processors and HP StorageWorks MSA1000 storage system achieved 138,362.03 tpmC (transactions per minute) at a cost of...

Lead Windows developer bugged by security By Matt Berger September 5, 2002 1:46 pm PT SEATTLE -- BRIAN Valentine says he's not proud. The senior vice president in charge of Microsoft's Windows development team has reason not to be. One of his most notable works, the Windows 2000 operating system, has a security record that is nothing to boast about. In fact, it's downright dismal, many experts say. Security bulletins warning of holes and vulnerabilities in Microsoft operating systems are a regular occurrence. Late Wednesday, the company released a bulletin warning of a flaw in its digital certificate technology that...

While mulling over the possiblities of how the terrorists that hijacked the airliners in the recent attacks managed to evade the security measures in our airports, a thought occured to me. The terrorists must have had information as to how the security in airports works. They would gather this information by sending operatives on flights where they would put knives into their luggage and see what the response of the security personnel were. At some point, they knew that they would have to lure the pilots out of the cockpits of these planes so that the terrorist pilots could take ...

I've never posted an article on Free Republic before, but this incensed me so much that I had to make it known.The Learning Channel has been one of the few TV channels that I could stand to watch, so much of today's programming being either mindless drivel or liberal spin. That ended today when TLC played twice-in-one-night "The Ultimate Ten Greatest Rescues."And guess what made number one. The kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives. It's disgusting.If you have the stomach for it, tune in now and check it out.