Dear readers, we are delighted that you are moving to something flexible, stable and cost saving(Linux). Before completely shifting to Linux you may have a lots of questions on you head. We promise that we will be answering all those questions via this blog in the days to come.
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Microsoft MDP Nepal has been running a Quiz in the name of “Microsoft Portal Quiz”[1] since January 16, 2010. In the quiz, they ask a simple question, answer of which is required to be sent to an e-mail address that ends with unlimit.com. They claim the prizes ranging from Microsoft Windows 7 DVD, Office 2007, fancy items like wrist watches, backpacks, card readers, etc. Well, I won Win7 DVD for the quiz held in the week of March 08. So, basically, what I had heard was, they would provide retail license of the software that is FPP[2] in their words.
The question about the licensing of the Software distributed as award in the quiz was raised in their developers’ portal[3]. One of the members of organizing committee Ms. Indu Poudel solved the query of the forum user. As you can see in the screenshot, she makes it clear that the licensing is not MSDN-AA (referred by ELMS) and it is awarded with FPP licensing. So, the reply from a member of organizing committee should be regarded as official.
Why Dislike Microsoft?
We (the ones involved in MSDNNepal.com) have faced several questions regarding Microsoft and its activities here in Nepal. We got many regarding Free Software and others, too. But I will concentrate on questions regarding Microsoft here.
I will also not primarily discuss about their software (Windows, Office) in this post. Lets leave that for later.
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You must have encountered the following page:
http://www.microsoft.com/opensource – Opensource at Microsoft
and the following website:
http://www.codeplex.com – Microsoft Opensource Projects Hosting Website
They (Micro$oft) seem to have acknowledged the beauty of opensource in development and have started using it in their development long ago. Have a look at the Sep 2007 history of http://www.microsoft.com/opensource at archive.org. This proves that they had started the site back in September 2007 or earlier. Read the rest of this entry »
Its not new, M$ implying its monopolistic behaviours in the community and the internet world. M$ product, Windows being the most used OS in the world, Firefox leads the internet browser market, IE still support some specific codes. The monopolistic behaviour has also been reflected in our local IT community.
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I have been taught in my childhood, “Computer is a device that accepts instructions from a user and generates a corresponding output”. Whenever I use computer, I feel free. The basic freedom i.e. the freedom to use it my way.
But what if I’m cannot use the computer my way? Well, I use Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and I’m free from the threat. But what if you cannot use the computer the way you want to use it? What if the basic freedom, “freedom to use”, isn’t valid in your case?
After such good and bad responses from user having various intellectual background, we have thought of providing an additional platform for discussion. As it is known to all that this blog is getting dirty due to off-topic comments, we moderators have decided to get a new domain and host a forum for open discussion.
When you buy Windows 7 ESD online, you used to get an option to download a free tool called WUDT. The WUDT is a tool that which enabled customers to create bootable USB drives or DVD backup media from the Windows 7 ESD ISO.
Now it has been pulled down from the Microsoft Website saying that they will investigate the matter. Read the rest of this entry »
Here is a copy of the License agreement that I received after I registered to MSDNAA ELMS. I got the keys for so called famous M$ products. Lets have a review of it shall we?
Micro$oft as usual is conducting international software competition whose theme is based on its latest technology Multi Point. As an influence, the Nepalese Micro$oft society is conducting a similar type of competition based on same theme Multi Point and have given their best effort to localize it (Even named the competition BahuBindu).
Micro$oft has left no loop holes in their publicities as their die heart followers (M$P’s) continue to convince every single student to take part in the competition. After researching some more about such competitions being held in Nepal, I found that this was the second of its type being conducted by Micro$oft and its sister organization.
UPDATE Nov 16 2009: This idea has been abandoned due to lack of support and interest from the visitors. When we get enough interested visitors, we will certainly think about it again.
The post below just exists for historical reasons.
ORIGINAL POST: Aug 27, 2009:
We are offering you free blogs on this site. The blogs will be based on wordpress and hosting space will be provided by us. The blogs will be as subdomains to this site, i.e. WhatEverYouWant.msdnnepal.com. Read the rest of this entry »
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