Windows / Microsoft

The Microsoft Office formats are in the news again. Massachusetts has backed-down and accepted the Microsoft Office OOXML format as a standard while the companies in Microsoft’s open source orbit…

This is too funny not to show you. Microsoft has a site for downloads of various software products, not just their own. It's called Windows Marketplace. Yesterday, for a brief shining moment, you…

I found a video on the Novell-Microsoft Interop Ability page that clears up for me at least part of what Microsoft wants from deals like the deal with Novell. The video is from Brainshare 2007,…

Microsoft views its string of deals with Linux vendors--the latest being Linspire, announced this week--as part of a broader company wide push to improve interoperability.

That's the word…

Microsoft has brought someone aboard to serve as its "Director of Linux Interoperability" and head up the Microsoft/Novell Interoperability Lab -- and his name will be familiar to people in the…

Microsoft Wednesday inked another cross-licensing patent agreement, this time with South Korea's LG Electronics, covering the company's Linux-based embedded devices.

As part of the deal, LG…

Microsoft's maneuvering may scare some users away from Linux and other open source software in the short term, said Joe Lindsay, CIO at Secured Funding in Costa Mesa, Calif. "It's like saying, 'I…

Microsoft should have admitted that Linux matters sooner. For years, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant seemed to be in denial as the open-source operating software made gains against its…

This month's announcement by Microsoft to acquire digital marketing services firm aQuantive has revealed little on how the companies will integrate their IT, but inside information indicates the…

Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin says Microsoft's recent patent claim against Linux and the open source community is a furphy, alleging it is a delaying tactic to merely help protect its profits,…