Novell's Service Pack raises some questions about the company's commitment to non-paying users.
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'PatentGate,' one year later: Microsoft against the open-source world
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It was just over a year ago that Microsoft Corp. dropped a bombshell of a claim: users of Linux and open-source software were unwittingly violating as many as 235 Microsoft software patents.
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ODF in MS Office? No, really!
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Microsoft declared yesterday (May 21st, 2008) that Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 would include (among others such as PDF 1.5, PDF/A and some more) built-in support for OASIS OpenDocument Format version 1.1 (finalized, submitted to ISO, supported by OpenOffice.org, Kofffice, GNOME office apps and their forks) while ISO-submitted OOXML support would wait for Office 14.
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Microsoft: World’s Open Source Heroes Are… Silverfish
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Microsoft's Open Source Heroes gimmick requires Silverlight, invades FOSS blogs
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Microsoft's Latest Whizzo Plan: Divide and Conquer
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Despite the rather surprising news that Microsoft won't have a comprehensive open source strategy until 2015, there's increasing evidence that it has at least established its shorter-term tactic: to head off the growing use of GNU/Linux.
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Charles Schulz: “The Standardization Process Has Become a Farce”
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It turns out that not even Microsoft will comply with OOXML; more cracks in the ISO process
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Microsoft Assimilation and Government Contracts
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An explanation of Microsoft's latest moves in light of some bad news (to Microsoft) from the UK and South Africa.
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'PatentGate' one year later: MS against open-source world
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Microsoft has played the 'good cop, bad cop' routine with the open source camp since claiming a year ago that users of open source software were violating its patents.
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Microsoft: Don't Misunderstand UAC, Other Vista Features
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In its continued attempt to convince business customers to adopt Vista, Microsoft has outlined and tried to explain some of what it calls the OS's most "misunderstood" features in a document posted to -- then mysteriously removed from -- its Web site this week.
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HOWTO: NOT Protest Against Microsoft Corruption
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The Hungarian egg thrower, whom we mentioned earlier, publicly accused Microsoft of corruption. but he did something which we do not endorse. We have stated this openly more than once before and it's worth repeating this remark about exclusion in this separate new post.
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A Decade After US Anti-trust Ruling, Microsoft Likely to Topple Itself
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An analysis of Microsoft's failures on this 10th anniversary of a significant antitrust ruling
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Microsoft is SourceForge Awards’ Only Sponsor, Uses it to Spread FUD
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Microsoft is the only sponsor and it implicitly warns that users can get sued on the face of it
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Can Microsoft 'do' open source by 2015?
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The recently appointed head of Microsoft's global Linux and open source team hopes the company will have a clear and comprehensible open source strategy by 2015.
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Microsoft considers new Yahoo deal
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Microsoft is talking to Yahoo! about an alternative transaction that doesn't involve an acquisition, the world's largest software maker said Sunday.
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