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All your IP are belong to Microsoft!

Microsoft's employees like to flap their lips about Linux violating patents, but they seem to know they have nothing that would actually stand up in court. They claim that there are at least 235…

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Calls Rivals 'Pretenders'

Microsoft never has lost its hardball edge. In a discussion with Gartner analysts at Gartner's annual Symposium ITxpo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called his competitors "pretenders."

Microsoft and Linux/Open Source: Oh, Dear

So Steve Ballmer's rattling the sabers again, saying that Red Hat is violating Microsoft intellectual property , and that Red Hat customers should pay for the privilege. More of the same old song…

Is it time to open source Microsoft Windows?

Given the importance of the Microsoft Windows platform in global IT, perhaps it is time for Windows to be opened up and made open source. Indeed, while some may consider such a move unthinkable, a…

Windows alternatives gain ground

When it comes to desktop and network systems, small businesses have little choice but to go with the status-quo offerings of Microsoft, right?

Wrong, says Richard Giroux, IT manager at…

Just how did Microsoft get OOXML support in Eastern Europe?

After the International Organization for Standardization voted to reject Microsoft's Office Open XML document format as a standard, the detailed results from ISO member countries give us a lot of…

OOXML rejected!

"It seems the OOXML is about to be rejected! There is quite a negative vibe against the Microsoft's format, as one can see from the NY Times article. Quote:"Of the 87 countries that participated,…

ISO votes to reject Microsoft's OOXML as standard

Microsoft Corp. has failed in its attempt to have its Office Open XML document format fast-tracked straight to the status of an international standard by the International Organization for…

French blow for Microsoft's Office Open XML

France has voted against the adoption of Microsoft's document format Office Open XML as an international standard, while Australia has decided to abstain.

Microsoft offered its OOXML…

Brazil votes against Open XML

"The Brazilian organization in charge of technical standards has decided to vote "no, with conditions" to Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML document format during an International Organization for…