Linux Torvalds expressed his preference for Mac OS X over Windows in a recent interview, but described the Mac OS X file system HFS+ as "complete and utter crap." Nick Miller interviewed Torvalds at last week's Linux conference in Melbourne. When they got around to discussing Windows and Macs, Torvalds expressed some strong opinions. Asked about the recent high-profile marketing between Vista and Leopard, Torvalds offered that the hoopla is really just about the graphical shell surrounding the OS, not the real core of the OS.
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Microsoft is dangling a $44.6 billion hostile bid in front of Yahoo investors in what is widely pegged as a move to thwart Google from overtaking it as the biggest and most powerful tech company in the world. The proposed price would be a healthy premium over Yahoo's stock price before the bid was announced, and the news itself was enough to send shares of the struggling Internet giant sharply higher. The irony of Microsoft saving the world from a monopolistic monolith was not lost on many tech observers.
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There's been lots of Apple-focused activity this week, including a handful of application-specific software updates as well as speculation that 10.5.2 is close to delivery but is hanging tight until it works perfectly with Time Machine and the on-the-way Time Capsule -- which is basically a combination of a server-grade hard drive and Apple's Airport Extreme wireless base station. The biggest news, however, comes back to the company's hottest products -- laptops and the iPhone and iPod.
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You don't need to rely on Apple to improve iTunes, the market-leading music-management software. I've been using two services that have made iTunes more useful and, when buying music, more affordable. First, let's take an overdue spin through Amazon.com's MP3 store before I tell you about a nifty way to replicate your iTunes library among multiple computers. Using the Amazon MP3 store, launched in the fall, I saved $5 compared with the price I would have paid at the iTunes store for the three albums I bought. The best part: The albums downloaded directly to my iTunes library.
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Where Apple's iPhone is concerned, "me too" appears to be the operative philosophy among the company's competitors in the mobile phone marketplace. "We need to stop thinking of the iPhone as a phone," said Phil Leigh, senior analyst with Inside Digital Media. "Voice is merely one application of many that it will use on the wireless Internet." Rivals already are thinking along the same lines as they contemplate the impact the iPhone has had on a white-hot smartphone marketplace, Leigh noted.
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