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Take Microsoft's Linux money, says Red Hat
Red Hat Inc's CEO has said the company is encouraging customers to adopt Microsoft Corp's offer of support vouchers for Novell's Inc's rival Linux operating system in order to get the issue over…
Microsoft Getting Paid for Patents in Linux?
An Interview with Jeremy Allison where the interviewer asks 'One of the persistent rumors that's going around is that certain large IT customers have already been paying Microsoft for patent…
Microsoft ‘officelabs’ looks to open source for inspiration
One of the criticisms most often levied against Microsoft — and not just by anonymous posters on Mini Microsoft — is that the company has gotten too big and too slow to be effective. Can Microsoft…
EC rebuffs Microsoft over open-source report
The European Commission has resisted efforts by Microsoft to make it abandon its report into open-source software, it was revealed this week. But the Commission was swayed into allowing a 10-day…
Microsoft Exec Wanted To Mask Linux Report Sponsorship
Microsoft executives pondered whether to remove the company's name from a 2002 report done by research firm IDC that touted Windows total cost of ownership over Linux, according to e-mail messages…
Did Microsoft want to 'whack' Dell over its Linux dealings?
Barely a week after a U.S. judge approved a landmark antitrust agreement with Microsoft, company executives were swapping e-mails suggesting Dell deserved a beating for its growing interest in…
'Microsoft is Imperialistic' Says Open Source Advocat
Microsoft Corporation's products have been locked out of the on-going World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi Kenya.
With over 300 computers provided for participants and the press, organizers…
Why Microsoft will offer an Open Source OS
You can accuse Microsoft of many things, but not making lots of money isn't one of them. If Linux ever got to the point where it was costing the company serious money, what's to stop MS from…
Microsoft Loves Linux: What's With That?
Microsoft and Novell announced a five-year patent and technology agreement around Microsoft software and Novell's SUSE Linux software. Is it love or a declaration of war?
Microsoft Loves…
Internet Explorer 7 on Linux
"The following documents the relatively short process needed to get Internet Explorer 7 running on a Linux system. So far, I have found one (two) problems with this method: it seems transparent…