- Thu Sep 13 2007 Microsoft, context, and open data
Jason Matusow blogs that I'm a proponent of closed data. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Posted by Matt Asay
- Sun Sep 19 2004 Microsoft lets governments into Office
The productivity package is added to the program that allows governments to see Microsoft source code.
Posted by David Becker
- Tue Jan 14 2003 Governments to see Windows code
Microsoft plans to share the source code underlying Windows with several international governments, a move designed to address concerns about the security of the OS.
Posted by Stephen Shankland
- Fri Jun 6 2008 Should governments legislate open source?
Governments also need to focus on local economic development, something that the European Union firmly believes is fostered by open source, not proprietary software. In this way, a preference for open source is not a way of shackling choice, but rather o
Posted by Matt Asay
- Mon Feb 25 2008 Underexposed blog: Links of the day
Sony's megapixel madness...Adobe wants AIR Linux testers...OpenSolaris governance woes...Nikon's 14-24mm lens reviewed...Free 16GB flash card with a Panasonic L10.
Posted by Stephen Shankland
- Mon Sep 27 2004 Microsoft flexes more open-source muscle
Software giant releases code for FlexWiki Web collaboration program--its third application to go public.
Posted by Ina Fried
- Fri Jun 13 2008 Why Microsoft's EU problem isn't going away
After a powerful regulator publicly urges more adoption of open source, Steve Ballmer's got to wonder if he'll ever catch a break. Probably not.
Posted by Charles Cooper
- Wed Oct 19 2005 Microsoft simplifies code-sharing plan
Company strips down its Shared Source Initiative to three licenses, one of which is modeled on the Mozilla Public License.
Posted by Martin LaMonica
- Thu May 13 2004 Microsoft shares Windows tools via open source
The software powerhouse releases into the open-source community a series of pre-existing templates that developers can freely modify.
Posted by Ina Fried
- Fri May 23 2008 Microsoft's backward route to ODF support
The changes Redmond's own OOXML underwent in becoming a standard make it more difficult for the company to support OOXML, rather than ODF, in Office 2007.
(By Tom Espiner of ZDNet UK)
Posted by Tom Espiner
