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Short Take: MS licenses linguistic technologies from Novell

Microsoft licensed Novell's linguistic technologies for use in Microsoft products, according to a Reuters report. Novell described it as a "multimillion-dollar" financial agreement. Microsoft has acquired the rights to Novell's Collexion Grammar Checker and Collexion Morphology, which breaks words down into root forms and facilitates searches and grammar checking.

Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com
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licensed Novell's linguistic technologies for use in Microsoft products, according to a Reuters report. Novell described it as a "multimillion-dollar" financial agreement. Microsoft has acquired the rights to Novell's Collexion Grammar Checker and Collexion Morphology, which breaks words down into root forms and facilitates searches and grammar checking.