It’s not Linux, or even Open Source, really, but it’s something. Microsoft, starting this week, is going to be more open with its programming to ensure greater interoperability and to make for a more portable solution for your data. This is a large reversal for Redmond, as Microsoft is known for its shut nature when it […]

It’s not Linux, or even Open Source, really, but it’s something. Microsoft, starting this week, is going to be more open with its programming to ensure greater interoperability and to make for a more portable solution for your data.

This is a huge reversal for Redmond, as Microsoft is known for its shut nature when it comes to its software.

It’s a bold step, and definitely one in the right direction.

Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperability [Press Release]

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Though Yahoo! stated “take a hike” to the initial offer, Microsoft is seemingly confident it will swallow up the Y!, as a recent internal email attests. MS is going the hostile takeover route, though it’s sugar coating how things are going to work out. The email says, in part, We look forward to a constructive dialogue with […]

Though Yahoo! stated “take a hike” to the initial offer, Microsoft is seemingly confident it will swallow up the Y!, as a recent internal email attests. MS is going the hostile takeover route, though it’s sugar coating how things are going to work out.

The email states, in part,

We look forward to a constructive dialogue with Yahoo’s board, management, shareholders, and employees on the value of this combination and its strategic and financial merits.

Aw, that doesn’t sound hostile at all. In fact, it sounds like they’re going to share a malt at the drugstore, they might even hold hands if Yahoo! gets lucky.

Microsoft email prepares workers for Yahoo takeover [Yahoo! News (irony!)]

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There are some shady rumors going around that SSD memory might be sketchy. The rumors say that after 100,000 writes, the RAM starts to fail. Not so, says Samsung’s Michael Yang. He wants you to know that it might start to fail after 100,000 writes to every single cell in the chip, something that would […]

There are some shady rumors going around that SSD memory might be sketchy. The rumors say that after 100,000 writes, the RAM starts to fail. Not so, says Samsung’s Michael Yang. He wants you to know that it might start to fail after 100,000 writes to every single cell in the chip, something that would be virtually impossible.

Truly, SSD is the memory format of the future. Less power hungry, lighter, and with no moving parts to break, it will be the hard drive for laptops of the future, with some, like a variant of the MacBook Air, already featuring the technology.

Samsung defends flash reliability in solid-state drives [C-Net Blogs]

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