Microsoft Sorry for Naughty Phrase in Linux Kernel; One Thing Apple Gets that Google Doesn't

Don't miss a single issue of this newsletter. Add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your address book. Microsoft Apologizes for Naughty Phrase in Linux Kernel Office 2013 Not Compatible With Windows XP, Vista U.S. Poverty Rate Projected to Hit Highest Level Since 1960s Don't Super-Size My Smartphone One Thing Apple Gets that Google Doesn't: Boxes Hot Comment: Re: And you wonder why we have hate-based politics Watch It: Meet the Robisons and Their Low-Cost RepRap Kit Microsoft Apologizes for Naughty Phrase in Linux Kernel Microsoft has apologized and promised to rectify the fact that one of its developers slipped a sexist phrase into Linux kernel code supporting Microsoft's HyperV virtualization environment. In that code, the magic constant passed through to the hypervisor reads "0xB16B00B5," or a slightly camouflaged "BIG BOOBS." Sound Off>> Office 2013 Not Compatible With Windows XP, Vista According to Microsoft's systems requirements page for the newly unveiled productivity suite Office 2013, the Office 2010 successor is only compatible with Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012. Sound Off>> U.S. Poverty Rate Projected to Hit Highest Level Since 1960s Poverty is spreading at record levels across many groups in the U.S. And according to economists and other experts surveyed by the Associated Press, the country's poverty rate is on track to hit its highest level since the 1960s. Sound Off>> Don't Super-Size My Smartphone The trend for bigger and bigger screens is clear, but is it what consumers want? While bigger phones often come with bigger screens, and bigger screens mean you'll see more without having to pinch and zoom, is it worth it to carry a huge, heavy lump of tech in your pocket? Sound Off>> One Thing Apple Gets that Google Doesn't: Boxes Google's Nexus tablet comes packaged with taped sides and fussy plastic, which takes effort to open, eliciting what some would call "wrap rage," Rebecca Greenfield writes. In comparison, accessing your newly acquired iPad takes a simple slide of a cover. Sound Off>> Re: And you wonder why we have hate-based politics "Why does the shooter have to be right or left wing? Why can't he just be crazy?" --by UnknowingFool Read More>> Gates Provides Windows Crash Statistic Nine years ago, in an otherwise innocuous article in the NYT about Microsoft's moves to weather a time of slow growth, Bill Gates says that according to error reporting software in Windows, 5% of all Windows installations crash two or more times every day. Read More>> Meet the Robisons and Their Low-Cost RepRap Kit A Massachusetts mother and son team we met at HOPE had so much trouble with commercial RepRap machines that they designed their own. Interested in RepRap? Maybe not yet, but as devotees of the concept point out, nobody outside a small circle of geeks was interested in personal computers at first. Watch the Video>> Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.