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Making sense of Microsoft and open source

February 21, 2008 The software giant's latest move offers a nice dose of kumbaya to open-source developers, but it goes only so far. TAGS: open source, antitrust, Novell Inc., Redmond, Microsoft Corp.

Mono offers open-source spin on Silverlight

May 16, 2008 First public release of Novell's Moonlight will compete with products from Adobe, Sun, and Apple.(By Matthew Broersma of ZDNet UK) TAGS: Microsoft Silverlight, Mono, Matthew Broersma, Novell Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., intellectual property, Firefox, codec, open source, Mozilla Corp., project, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Apple Computer

IBM denies re-entering PC market with Russian deal

March 10, 2008 Big Blue says it's not getting back into the PC market, despite selling "Microsoft-free" PCs running Linux and OpenOffice in Eastern Europe. TAGS: Eastern Europe, OpenOffice, IBM Corp., Linux, Lenovo, open source, brand, PC, Microsoft Corp.

EU regulators cool on Microsoft open-source move

February 21, 2008 Announcement won't affect its antitrust investigations against the software giant, says European Commission. TAGS: Jeremy Allison, interoperability, commission, announcement, Samba, European Union, Steve Ballmer, API, antitrust, open source, Microsoft Corp.

Week in review: Microsoft the magnanimous?

February 22, 2008 Microsoft says it wants to be more open with other software makers, while Toshiba closes down HD DVD. Also: Gates wants Yahoo for the people. TAGS: interoperability, open-source developer, protocol, commission, Week in review, announcement, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows Server, open source, reader, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., software company, Microsoft Windows

Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test

April 21, 2008 Test shows that Word documents generated by today's version of Office 2007 don't conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the ISO. (By Peter Judge of ZDNet UK) TAGS: Alex Brown, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format, XML, specification, Judge, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., blog, open source

Year in review: New players enliven open source

December 21, 2007 Yahoo, Google, Adobe, Sun Microsystems, and even Microsoft freshen up the open-source marketplace. TAGS: open source, Mozilla Corp., Firefox, open-source software, Google Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Red Hat Inc., Linux, programming, Yahoo! Inc., Web browser, Microsoft Corp.

Lawmaker blasts U.K. government on Microsoft policy

October 10, 2007 British Parliament member criticizes U.K. government's IT strategy, accusing it of "skewing the market" in favor of Microsoft. TAGS: policy, open source, information technology, member, health, government, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Red Hat voices concerns over Microsoft patent model

October 25, 2007 After EU antitrust ruling, company questions whether Microsoft's patent arrangement is compatible with open-source licensing. TAGS: Red Hat Inc., commission, settlement, open source, general counsel, patent, decision, antitrust, Microsoft Corp., effect, developer

Week in review: Teaming up against Google

February 1, 2008 Microsoft offers to buy struggling Yahoo for $44.6 billion to better compete against Google. Also: Vista's one-year anniversary. TAGS: monetization, Yahoo! Inc., Week in review, reader, layoff, Google Inc., online advertising, shareholder, social networking, merger, Microsoft Corp., open source, CEO

U.K. standards body taken to court over OOXML

May 1, 2008 Group launches court challenge against decision by British Standards Institution to approve Microsoft's nascent document format. TAGS: standards body, OpenDocument Format, decision-making, approval, consortium, specification, decision, U.K., XML, document, open source, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Year in review: Microsoft tries to find its 'wow'

December 19, 2007 Company finally gets Vista out the door. It also spends a bundle on acquisitions and looks ahead to the "computing cloud." TAGS: Microsoft Office Live, MSN Hotmail, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Office, front, Microsoft Windows XP, telephony, Microsoft Corp., PC company, acquisition, open source, Microsoft Windows

Gates: 'There's nothing monolithic about chaos'

May 10, 2005 Microsoft chairman comments on "chaos" in the open-source community. TAGS: chaos, chairman, open source, Microsoft Corp.

When more bugs can mean tighter security

December 7, 2007 Mozilla Europe president explains why having fewer disclosed vulnerabilities doesn't mean Internet Explorer is safer than the open-source Web browser. TAGS: Mozilla Corp., Firefox, secure, motivation, bug, vulnerability, Microsoft Internet Explorer, community, Web browser, open source, Microsoft Corp., security, president

Microsoft to support Chinese document standard

May 21, 2007 The company will sponsor an open-source project to create converter between Ecma Open XML and Chinese standard. Also: new ODF converters. TAGS: ECMA, OpenDocument Format, open-source project, SourceForge, converter, Microsoft PowerPoint, open source, project, Microsoft Excel, document, Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft, Xandros target mobile e-mail

August 17, 2007 The companies extend their partnership to help customers deploy Windows Mobile e-mail on open-source mail servers. TAGS: Xandros, Scalix Corp., Linux company, wireless e-mail, Microsoft Windows Mobile, e-mail server, open source, agreement, Linux, Microsoft Corp., server, e-mail, Microsoft Windows
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