Microsoft in Flickr rights shockr | News - Digital Media - CNET News.com
"Here's a particularly entertaining thread on Flickr, in which members vent at the fact that their photos--many of which had been set for private viewing only--had been scraped by Microsoft and pulled over, creditless, to Microsoft's servers. Amusingly, some of the scraped "entries" were of iconic British landscapes such as that of, er, Tennessee."
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Proof Microsoft still does not “get open source”
Interesting piece. Their point of view is that Microsoft is a victim of open source rather than a company that can also take advantage of it, just like everyone else.
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Open Sources | Rodrigues & Urlocker | InfoWorld | Are vendors afraid of open source? | August 8, 2008 01:00 PM | Savio Rodrigues
"Reading Michael Dolan's post titled Proof Microsoft still does not "get open source" got me thinking. What do the other big software vendors have to say about open source in the Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) of their annual reports?"
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Microsoft taking a sip of Midori | Beyond Binary - A blog by Ina Fried - CNET News.com
Interesting and pragmatic piece about new operating system work that Microsoft may or may not be doing. Personally, I think they need to finally follow Apple's model for rebuilding the substructure on a *ix base.
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Alfresco creates open source SharePoint clone - Network World
"Alfresco Software Thursday said it has added support for SharePoint Server 2007 protocols to its Alfresco Labs 3 beta and created an open source clone of Microsoft's content management platform."
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Firefox sets new record, cracks 19% market share
"Most of Firefox's overall gains appeared to come from rival Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE), according to data from Net Applications, although the newest version's growth was primarily because of users updating from Firefox 2.0."
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Microsoft pushes India toward Linux
"One of India's 28 states plans to distribute 100,000 Linux laptops to students there. ELCOT (Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited) apparently decided to use Linux exclusively after being put off by Microsoft's bundling tactics for academic users."
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ConsortiumInfo.org - How "Ignorant of Standards" was Microsoft Really?
"Because Microsoft has been playing the standards game, butting heads over prior technologies such as ActiveX, Java and much, much more with the best of them for decades as a member of hundreds of standards organizations. Moreover, it has held many board seats along the way, and has had a staff of attorneys for some time dedicated to standards matters. That staff includes the former General Counsel of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)."
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Microsoft on open source: 'We should have done it earlier' | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News.com
"So, Microsoft, which do you want? Do you really want to open up to open source, or do you want to continue to try to beat down the movement while simultaneously offering a palsied embrace? Our customers want interoperability, but we can't do it on the terms you're offering."
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heise online - Kein Vista und Office 2007 bei Daimler
No Vista for Daimler or GM, to add on to Intel. Obviously this is a big opportunity for those who want to encourage adoption of non-Windows operating systems like Linux and OS X. Does Open Solaris have a shot here as well? Are people switching from Windows to Solaris on the desktop?
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Windows Vista Won't Be Inside Intel -- Microsoft -- InformationWeek
"An anonymous source at Intel told the New York Times that the chipmaker will stick with the older Windows XP until Microsoft rolls out Windows 7 in 2010 because it has found "no compelling reason" to upgrade to Vista."
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Document standards row heats up - 13 Jun 2008 - Computing
"Standards body the Open Document Format (ODF) Alliance closed ranks with the European Commission (EC) against Microsoft today, issuing a statement applauding the commission's vociferous endorsement of the ODF standard in an effort to avoid vendor lock-in on document formats."
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Suncorp envisages Linux, ODF for 20,000 desktops: News - Software - ZDNet Australia
"Ironically, Smith's decision to bring open source to Suncorp's desktop rests heavily on Microsoft's decision to support OpenDocument Format (ODF) in Office 2007 — Suncorp's current office productivity suite. Smith said the two key factors that will determine how open source can be used at the desktop are legacy applications and the portability of documents."
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Choice, Innovation and… Appeal? | Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards
"Perhaps one of the most overlooked aspect of the whole OOXML story is the financial side of the issue. When everything is said and done, one legitimate question coming from the Microsoft shareholders will be about the ratio between the resources wasted (and as of resources, you can include not just money, but also the wasted time, roadmaps, and of course public image) and the final outcome. This ratio is, I think, unfavourable to Microsoft and shareholders tend to be … demanding , to put it mildly."
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InternetNews Realtime IT News - Microsoft Taps Legal Czar Amid EU, OOXML Woes
"Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced Monday it has hired a former European diplomat to lead its dealings with the European Union (EU). The company's aim is to help the company face down legal and regulatory threats, among which are investigations regarding its controversial document interchange formats."
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The lock-in battle shifts to Sharepoint | Open Source | ZDNet.com
Older article, but thinking about what's going on in the open source world as a SharePoint replacement.
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Microsoft Office Standard Challenged By India, Brazil, South Africa -- Microsoft -- InformationWeek
"In a letter, members of a Brazilian technical committee said the process that led to OOXML's ISO ratification was flawed, in part because not all participants were given enough time to make their views heard."
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Robguy 4.0: My Changing Relationship with MS
"My viewpoint is changing now that it's not part of my job. When it turned out that I hadn't officially purchased Office, I questioned if I still wanted to."
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IIT Bombay, Microsoft at loggerheads over standards
"The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, has taken strong objection to the fact that despite a "No" to OOXML by a majority of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) members, the software giant "continued to make representations to the top Indian leadership (read Ministry of Consumer Affairs), pressuring them to change the Indian vote"."
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Fatal Exception | Neil McAllister | InfoWorld | How Microsoft lost the office file format battle | May 29, 2008 03:00 AM | Neil McAllister
"How could OOXML have gone so wrong? If we take Microsoft at its word that its goals include greater interoperability and transparency, we can only chalk this disaster up to plain blundering. From its inception, OOXML has been a textbook example of how not to develop an open standard."
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