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Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community

Microsoft has succeeded in fracturing the Linux and open-source community with the patent indemnity agreements it has entered into with several prominent vendors, Ubuntu leader and Canonical CEO…

Can Linux Replace Windows?

As a bit of a follow-up to my recent editorial about the different operating systems battling it out, a few readers made comments about Ubuntu and Windows and, essentially, that I was giving…

Microsoft's overtures towards open source show just how scared it is

The vote is submitting its Shared Source licences to the Open Souce Initiative for certification, as announced in a keynote speech by Bill Hilf, Microsoft General Manager of Platform Strategy, on…

The OOXML Translator is a Hoax (and so is the ISO)

As you already know, 4 Linux companies chose a bizarre route where so-called ‘interoperability’ is achieved not through unified standards. In the following new article, their whole hypothesis is…

How Microsoft conquered China

Or is it the other way around? Fortune's David Kirkpatrick goes on the road to Beijing with Bill Gates, who threw his business model out the window.

Mr. Bill Gates! Mr. Bill Gates!" a young…

Microsoft Statement About GPLv3

Microsoft's statement on GPLv3:

Published: July 5, 2007

Microsoft is not a party to the GPLv3 license and none of its actions are to be misinterpreted as accepting status as a…

The truth behind Microsoft's plot to kill Linux

The truth behind Microsoft's plot to kill Linux.

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Vista 'more secure than OS X and Linux'

Microsoft has boasted in a new study that Windows Vista has needed fewer security patches than any other recently released desktop operating system.

"Windows Vista has an improved security…

Open standards advocate comes out in favor of Microsoft

Microsoft's Open XML is not as bad as it has been made out to be, while the Open Document Format (ODF) has many "misleading" claims, according to an open standards activist.

Rick Jelliffe,…

Linux x86 growth outpaced by Microsoft Windows

A recent IDC report showed Linux servers continuing to increase market share for x86 architecture with a second consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, but the bigger news could be Microsoft's…