A ban on Microsoft selling certain versions of its flagship products Word and Office has begun.
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Microsoft Word and Office 'sales ban' begins
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MS Accused of Dumping and Using “Scare Campaign” to Block Existing Migrations to OpenOffice.org
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Microsoft is blocking "mass migration of students to OpenOffice" using EDGI and migration of Danish schools to OpenOffice.org using a "scare campaign", according to sources
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The end of the iPod, the cult of gPodder and the beacon of freedom
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Some people think the iPod and iTunes are podcasting and portable, digital music. Others chafe at the restrictions placed upon the user by Apple. Count me among the latter.
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Does the Windows ballot screen for choosing a browser represent meaningful progress in Europe?
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Thanks to the European Commission's antitrust like activities, European citizens will soon be presented with a ballot choice between twelve browsers when first using a newly purchased computer preloaded with the Microsoft Windows operating system. But is this really progress?
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Microsoft Might Embrace and Extend SVG
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Microsoft and SVG - like many prior fake marriages - may blend very poorly
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Thousands of Italians May Sue Microsoft for Forcing Them to Buy Windows
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Italy is the latest nations to be going after Microsoft for its market abuses and removal of choice
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OSS Watch Pretends That Microsoft’s Attacks on Free Software Do Not Exist
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Criticism of a new writeup from OSS Watch, which grossly whitewashes some of Microsoft's behaviour and instead focuses on PR gestures and corporate spin.
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Microsoft: an end to open hostilities?
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First branded as a communist plot, then derided as a form of cancer, before being upgraded to merely a 'grey spectre', free and open source software (FOSS) has had a pretty rough ride from Microsoft over the years. For many in the open source community, the company represents all that is troubling about closed source software development. Recently, though, there have been developments.
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Microsoft is Chasing Google Not Just in Search But Operating Systems and Office Suites Too
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A glimpse at what Google's advancement in the market is doing to Microsoft, the company that attacks Free software more than any other company (or all of them combined)
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Paul Rübig on ACTA
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A European parliament member explains rather poorly his reasons for suffocating the market
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Update on Microsoft-Staffed Patent Troll and Its Lawsuits Against GNU/Linux
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The Acacia troll, a firm which is suspected to be batting for Microsoft, is still harassing GNU/Linux vendors
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Centrify, Microsoft, and Software Patents
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How Centrify is strengthening Microsoft's patent FUD against GNU/Linux; Microsoft's patent violations and attacks on GNU/Linux explored further
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MS on Linux-based Windows Clones: “We’d Have to Look to the Protection Offered Under IP Law”
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Lessons for Novell and other Mono proponents in light of Microsoft's response to Ylmf OS
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MAFIAA (Copyright Cartel) Runs the Country
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All Quiet on the CodePlex Front as 100 Day Mark Passes
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As you may recall, Microsoft announced back on September 10 that it had launched a new, open open source organization called the CodePlex Foundation. It also pledged to announce a new board within 100 days - which passed without comment 11 days ago.
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