Steve Balmer, the CEO of Microsoft gets pretty scared by the success of Linux & other Open Source Software. Microsoft wants to hire a so-called "Linux and Open Office Compete Lead", as the job description in one their recent marketing job ads shows.
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Mr Microsoft. Competition can be good for you
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Microsoft is looking for “Linux and Open Office Compete Lead” this could turn out for the good of everyone This one depends on just what they’re looking to do. If on the other decide to use the competition to create better more reliable and secure products, then this could turn out so much better for both the consumer and in fact open source as well.
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Microsoft Bribes to Make Education Microsoft-based
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Microsoft stoops very low to derail GNU/Linux and Free software in education around the world
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Microsoft unfazed by Ubuntu Windows XP GUI clone
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Microsoft legal has decided to react passively to the news of Ylmf OS, a Linux distribution that clones the look and feel of Windows XP.
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Hewlett-Packard Takes World Back to World War One with New Software Patent
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HP patents very trivial ideas about a century after their "discovery" and it threatens Free software in the process; update on Nokia vs Apple
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Boycott Novell DDOS; Perhaps Time for Authorities to Ban Microsoft Windows
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Another long batch of denial of service attacks on the site gives room for thought
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Novell is Still Fishing for Software Patents, Microsoft and Apple Do Patent Evils
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The proprietary bunch is still pursuing software patents, even some of those types which are considered highly controversial
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Resetting Priorities
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What was amusing was the hoopla generated by the discovery of a hidden Easter egg in Microsoft's flagship product, while all the while, a much bigger story remains in play.
Microsoft continues to sell consumers an operating system that needs anti-virus protection.
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Microsoft’s Kevin Turner Apparently Still in Charge of Anti-GNU/Linux Strategies
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Kevin Turner seems to be closely involved in Microsoft's attempt to derail migrations to GNU/Linux (using outright lies and subversive tactics that break competition rules)
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“On the SVG List, a Couple of People [Are] Leery of Microsoft.”
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Microsoft's entrance into a panel that it has battled against for about a decade leads to great skepticism and worry among those who paid attention to Microsoft's behaviour
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Danish Schoolchildren Complaints About OpenOffice
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In Denmark in an open letter to the mayor, city council and the IT manager in Lyngby-Taarbaek Municipality, the Virum School student council is now targeting sharp criticism against the decision to replace Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.
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Microsoft Office Starter 2010: A Response to OpenOffice?
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Microsoft is set to launch Office 2010 Starter -- a stripped down and ad-supported (but totally free [as in price]) version of Office 2010. Is this Microsoft's response to OpenOffice and Google Apps? Or is this an opportunity to get PC buyers to "try then buy" complete Office suites? Here are some thoughts.
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Microsoft Finds Strategy Against Linux Phones: Mock Them
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Microsoft president openly mocks Linux phones rather than stick to promoting his own offerings
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History of Microsoft’s “Slog” Against Android Brainchild
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A reader's research-based analysis of Andy Rubin and his bitter experience with Microsoft
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Ford and Microsoft Distort “Open Source”
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The product known as "SYNC" is fraudulently described as "open source" in some more gullible circles
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