In its continued attempt to convince business customers to adopt Vista, Microsoft has outlined and tried to explain some of what it calls the OS's most "misunderstood" features in a document posted to -- then mysteriously removed from -- its Web site this week.
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'PatentGate' one year later: MS against open-source world
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Microsoft has played the 'good cop, bad cop' routine with the open source camp since claiming a year ago that users of open source software were violating its patents.
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Microsoft Assimilation and Government Contracts
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An explanation of Microsoft's latest moves in light of some bad news (to Microsoft) from the UK and South Africa.
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Charles Schulz: “The Standardization Process Has Become a Farce”
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It turns out that not even Microsoft will comply with OOXML; more cracks in the ISO process
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Microsoft's Latest Whizzo Plan: Divide and Conquer
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Despite the rather surprising news that Microsoft won't have a comprehensive open source strategy until 2015, there's increasing evidence that it has at least established its shorter-term tactic: to head off the growing use of GNU/Linux.
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Microsoft: World’s Open Source Heroes Are… Silverfish
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Microsoft's Open Source Heroes gimmick requires Silverlight, invades FOSS blogs
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ODF in MS Office? No, really!
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Microsoft declared yesterday (May 21st, 2008) that Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 would include (among others such as PDF 1.5, PDF/A and some more) built-in support for OASIS OpenDocument Format version 1.1 (finalized, submitted to ISO, supported by OpenOffice.org, Kofffice, GNOME office apps and their forks) while ISO-submitted OOXML support would wait for Office 14.
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'PatentGate,' one year later: Microsoft against the open-source world
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It was just over a year ago that Microsoft Corp. dropped a bombshell of a claim: users of Linux and open-source software were unwittingly violating as many as 235 Microsoft software patents.
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Novell’s Second-Class SUSE Citizens
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Novell's Service Pack raises some questions about the company's commitment to non-paying users.
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Anti-Trust Violations Followed by Boycott of Amazon (Software Patents Pest)
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Amazon, a notorious and odd duck in the software patent circles, boycotted for antitrust complaints over print-on-demand
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Why Microsoft Office is in Trouble; Debunking Microsoft Goodwill
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A batch of news and analysis that serves as an explanation -- however partial it may be -- of Microsoft's latest moves.
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IAM Denies Software Patents Knock on Europe’s Back Door
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An established magazine argues that software patents are not necessarily part of the US-EU (USPTO/EPO) harmonisation
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EU to investigate Microsoft file format support
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A new plan by Microsoft to allow its Office software to save and edit files in a rival format will face a probe by the European Commission.
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