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Microsoft backs GetHuman customer service plan

August 8, 2006 Initiative is designed to set industrywide standards for customer service; companies can advertise compliance. TAGS: customer service, standards, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Microsoft's amusing standards stance

February 22, 2007 Opera Software's Håkon Wium Lie says Microsoft's recent letter about IBM undermining standards contradicts its own track record. TAGS: SGML, OpenDocument Format, standards, ECMA, XML, letter, IBM Corp., OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft hints at general plan for IE 8

May 3, 2007 Internet Explorer 8, due within the next 18 months, will keep focus on security, ease of use and include Web development improvements. TAGS: Web development, ease of use, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, standards, programming, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, security

Is open source getting to Microsoft?

September 15, 2006 Pledge not to sue over Web services patents reflects the spread of the collaborative development model--as far as Microsoft, even. TAGS: Web service, open source, intellectual property, patent, standards, open-source community, software company, vendor, Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows

Microsoft: Make our HD Photo format a standard

March 7, 2007 Software giant would turn over its image tech to a standards group in a bid to displace today's reigning JPEG format. TAGS: standards, Microsoft Corp., JPEG, printing, format, photograph, Microsoft Windows

Microsoft calls IBM hypocritical on document standards

February 14, 2007 Redmond publishes open letter accusing Big Blue of blocking ISO from considering Office Open XML as document standard. TAGS: standardization, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., procurement, standards, general manager, representative, XML, letter, Microsoft Office, activity, Microsoft Corp., document, format

Microsoft's document gambit moves ahead

December 7, 2006 Standards vote could boost its Office document format in high-stakes race for desktop prominence. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, Novell Inc., standards, desktop software, OpenOffice, blog, XML, open source, Microsoft Office, attorney, Microsoft Corp., document, Linux

AMD: Vista only a tiny step to convergence

May 24, 2006 PCs have a way to go, despite advances in hardware and software aimed to bring PC technology into the living room. TAGS: WinHEC, consumer electronics, living room, streaming audio, standards, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center, Bose, AMD, researcher, Microsoft Windows Vista, electronics, PC, Microsoft Corp., operating system, Microsoft Windows, DVD

Microsoft document formats gain Mass. favor

July 2, 2007 Proposed technical guidelines include Microsoft's Office Open XML on the list of "open format" standards. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, agency, Massachusetts, XML, Microsoft Office, standards, policy, state, information technology, Microsoft Corp., document

Microsoft gives go-ahead to open-source Web services

September 13, 2006 Company won't assert patents related to 35 Web services specs--a move designed to ease developers' legal concerns. TAGS: Web service, patent, open-source software, open-source community, open source, royalty, specification, Apache Software Foundation, standards, FAQ, GPL, developer, concern, lawyer, Microsoft Corp., XML

Is Microsoft playing well with others?

April 7, 2006 As it opens up to Linux and rival software, company faces deep skepticism over whether it's really changed its stripes. TAGS: Jeremy Allison, open source, open-source software, protocol, standards, Linux, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows

XML as the great peacemaker

December 21, 2000 Extensible Markup Language accomplished the seemingly impossible this year: It brought bitter software enemies together to speak the same tongue. TAGS: Ariba Inc., XML, standards, Oracle Corp., IBM Corp., vision, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., HP, Microsoft Windows

Acid2, Acid3, and the power of default

January 23, 2008 Opera CTO Håkon Wium Lie asks how seriously Microsoft's Web browser will support an upcoming Web standards test. TAGS: standards, scenario, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, Web application, Opera Software, power, setting, Microsoft Corp.

Dell exec: We're not Wintel's lapdog

April 10, 2006 Kevin Kettler says Dell plays a starring role in guiding tech, even if that causes friction with allies. TAGS: Wintel, IEEE 802.11, Dell, Intel, wireless networking, exec, R&D, standards, PC company, networking, 64-bit, adapter, PC, Microsoft Corp., operating system

Year in review: On Web, innovation meets hard times

December 22, 2008 A lot of progress took place this year in Web start-ups and online technology, before the dark clouds of recession and layoffs swept in. TAGS: innovation, layoff, Twitter, Web 2.0, standards, Facebook, open source, Google Inc., start-up, Mozilla Corp., Web browser, Microsoft Corp.

Mozilla finally turns 1.0

June 5, 2002 The browser software, four years in the making in an open-source project, arrives on the Web. Netscape says developers wanted to be sure it would "be ready for prime time." TAGS: Netscape 6, Mozilla Corp., Netscape Communications Corp., open-source project, Document Object Model, open source, Time Warner Inc., standards, developer, Web browser, Microsoft Corp.
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