Word: platformization
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SOFTWARE Peeping Into Windows For geeks, it's a scintillating show: Microsoft is releasing its closely guarded Windows source code - the instructions that make it run - to most governments. The move is designed to fend off the threat from Linux, the open-source platform that is gaining headway in governments across Europe. Cheaper and, many experts say, more secure than Windows, Linux is the world's fastest-growing server operating system. Openness becomes a strength because users share improvements. Microsoft wants to reassure governments about security, but it hasn't shed all its reserve. This show is only a peep...
...Aviv bombings. Sharon would be looking at a landslide victory if his Likud Party hadn't tarnished itself with corruption scandals (see box), which have boosted the protest vote and offered opposition parties a chance to increase their seats in the Knesset. Polls show Green Leaf, whose platform calls for the legalization of marijuana and which got only 34,000 votes in the last election, netting at least two seats. "Likud is corrupt and so is Labor," says Dan Goldenblatt, Green Leaf's deputy leader. "People are supporting us because they're fed up." An even bigger winner...
...there a chance that Rushing’s reform-minded platform has finally caused Finneran to change his stripes? He and his crack team of sycophantic representatives would have us believe so. In a speech to the House that had just voted him in overwhelmingly, Finneran uncharacteristically claimed that he intended to foster transparency and debate in state government, promising that he would “actively work to eliminate” the impression that he has stifled more liberal viewpoints and noting that “it is not only important to hear, but to listen...
...That could change, of course, when the UN inspectors make their formal report on Iraqi disarmament to the Security Council on January 27. President Bush is scheduled to deliver his State of the Union address the following day, which would provide a natural platform to respond and declare Washington's intentions. But based on current indications, the inspectors' report is unlikely to make an unambiguous case that Iraq has either complied or failed to comply with the demands of the international community. And an ambiguous report would likely see Security Council members pushing for further investigation. In the interests...
...banks smacks of opportunism and grandstanding, of a public official out of control. "This could have been handled more effectively away from the glare of the press," says a senior executive at one of the banks Spitzer has gone after. But if this is all a political ploy, a platform from which to run someday for, say, Governor of New York, it's certainly not in most politicians' playbooks to take on the moneymen who rank among the most powerful people in the U.S.--and whom he might need one day to help finance a campaign. Spitzer, a child...