Tag: Competition
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The Last Mile Bottleneck and Net Neutrality
When thinking about the performance of any computer system or network, the first question to ask is “Where is the bottleneck?” As demand grows, one part of the system reaches its capacity first, and limits performance. That’s the bottleneck. If you want to improve performance, often the only real options are to use the bottleneck…
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Adobe Scares Microsoft with Antitrust Threat?
Microsoft has changed the next versions of Windows and Office after antitrust lawsuit threats from Adobe, according to Ina Fried’s article at news.com. Here’s a summary of Microsoft’s changes: [Microsoft] is making two main changes. With Vista [the next version of Windows], it plans to give computer makers the option of dropping some support for…