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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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Gates: 'There's nothing monolithic about chaos'
May 10, 2005
Microsoft chairman comments on "chaos" in the open-source community.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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