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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Microsoft to release ODF document converter
February 2, 2007
Microsoft-sponsored open-source group expected to release ODF translator for Word.
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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.
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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.
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Microsoft's document gambit moves ahead
December 7, 2006
Standards vote could boost its Office document format in high-stakes race for desktop prominence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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