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Read more »Novell Still Serves Microsoft with Mono
Novell's latest developments around Mono further fulfill Microsoft's needs
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Microsoft’s Extend-and-Extinguish with ActiveX is Blowing Up in Rival Vendors’ Faces
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MicroHoo: Good or Bad for Open Source?
News that Microsoft and Yahoo have finally agreed a formula for their collaboration comes almost as a relief after what seems like years of tiresome on-off negotiations. I think it's necessary to distinguish between short-term and long-term effects.
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More Linux and Open Source Infiltrations from Microsoft
Microsoft may be exploiting the openness of the community to hop over fences and subvert rivalry from the inside
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HSBC, a Participant in Microsoft’s Linux Racket, Snubs Firefox, GNU/Linux, and Mac Users
HSBC requires Internet Explorer, arguably the least secure Web browser ever made
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How Microsoft Uses Linux Conference Sponsorships to Advance Its Agenda
A “Highly Confidential” message from Steve Ballmer to Richard Fade (about Dell)
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Microsoft Stresses Future Products While GNU/Linux and SaaS Eliminate Microsoft’s Profitability
Microsoft has no immediate response to sharply-declining margins, so it hastily points to products that do not exist yet
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FSFE Responds to Browser Competition While Apple Proceeds to Blocking Another Competitor
Exclusion of competition, courtesy of the largest providers of non-Free operating systems for desktops
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GNU/Linux is Shrinking Microsoft’s Margins
The impact of GNU/Linux on Microsoft's profitability becomes more evident
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Microsoft Wants to Give RAND Terms to Free Software
Microsoft's promise of so-called "interoperability" leaves much to be desired
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When Push Comes To Shove: Microsoft's EU Proposals
Microsoft has promised the European Commission a "significant change" in attitude and publishes its proposal for the marketing of Internet Explorer in Windows 7. Additionally there's news regarding the GPL publishings.
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Insecure by design: MS Office formats
There's no surprise here. Microsoft Office is a set of security holes that masquerades as an office suite.
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Parsing the Microsoft - EU Interoperability Commitment
Looking at the first question: why is there no reference to future versions of OOXML/IS 29500? Does this indicate that Microsoft intends to abandon its own XML formats?
Read more »Microsoft's EC proposals now include ODF and interoperability
Microsoft's original proposal to the European Commission, that it drop the web browser entirely from Windows 7, has been superseded with a new proposal that users be offered a "ballot box" of browser options. According to analysis by Glyn Moody of the presented documentation, it also appears to go much further.
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