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Apple to drop Samba networking tools from Lion

by Dana Franklin (Mar 24th, 2011)

Changes to its licensing may lead Samba, an open source suite of tools for networking with Windows systems, to be chopped from Mac OS X Lion, according to a report from AppleInsider. Instead, Apple will develop its own solutions for interacting with neighboring Windows systems over a ...

Google to employees: 'Mac or Linux, but no more Windows'

by Michael Rose (May 31st, 2010)

We first heard rumors of this policy change a couple of months ago, but now it's made the papers: the Financial Times is reporting that Google is phasing out the use of Windows internally, as employees are migrated to either Linux or Mac OS X on machine turnovers or new hires. The policy change was ...

Rumor: .Mac relaunch to coincide with iPhone 2.0?

by Cory Bohon (May 8th, 2008)

A little birdy told us about some unusual happenings at Apple. According to our anonymous tipster, .Mac will undergo a complete revamp that will coincide with the iPhone 2.0 launch (which everyone expects to occur at WWDC 08). We posted about the .Mac push e-mail coming to iPhone 2.0 last night, but ...