Microsoft continues opening up Outlook file format
Microsoft continued opening up the Outlook .pst file format by releasing two tools Monday to help developers use the data in third-party applications.
View ArticleThe status of Microsoft — on KUOW
Steve Sher, host of KUOW radio's "Weekday," devoted an hour to Microsoft and its future this morning on his talk show. Joining him to talk mostly about Microsoft's consumer business were Frank Shaw,...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Latin America chief: Open-source equals ‘imcompetence’
To Hernán Rincón, president of Microsoft Latinoamérica, companies that offer open-source software do so because they have failed to compete with proprietary rivals.
View ArticleFriday-to-Monday Microsoft news wrap-up
RIM PlayBook, Anand Iyer, Windows Live and WordPress, Minnesota and BPOS, Xbox Kinect ads, CodePlex Foundation, OpenOffice.org, Eric Schmidt.
View ArticleVideo: Microsoft throws more punches at OpenOffice.org
This week we've got a new video from Microsoft that attacks OpenOffice.org, Oracle's open-source competitor to Microsoft Office.
View ArticleMicrosoft Research builds tool for multilanguage Wikipedia editing
Microsoft Research India has built a Web-based tool that lets people edit Wikipedia articles across multiple languages, allowing the quick filling-out of entries that may be longer in English than in...
View ArticleMicrosoft gives Hyper-V to OpenStack cloud platform
Microsoft announced Friday that it is providing Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, the company's newest enterprise virtualization software, to the OpenStack cloud-computing platform. The partnership with...
View ArticleReport: Russian government to drop Microsoft for Linux
The Russian government plans to drop Microsoft Windows for open-source Linux in an effort to develop a "national operating system," the Christian Science Monitor reports. The plan was outlined three...
View ArticleMicrosoft-led consortium getting 882 Novell patents
As part of Seattle-based Attachmate's planned $2.2 billion acquisition of Novell, a Microsoft-led consortium is getting 882 of Novell's patents for $450 million.
View ArticleMicrosoft says Kinect was left open by design, not ‘hacked’
Kinect was left open by design so that techies and researchers could find interesting uses for the motion sensor, said Microsoft's director of incubation for Xbox.
View Article882 Novell patents go to Microsoft, Apple, EMC, Oracle
As part of Seattle-based Attachmate's planned $2.2 billion acquisition of Novell, a Microsoft-led consortium is getting 882 of the open-source company's patents. We already knew that. But what we...
View ArticleVideo: Kinect controls ‘World of Warcraft,’ plus more hacks
The interwebs have been buzzing today with this video of a "hacked" Kinect controlling the popular role-playing game "World of Warcraft."
View ArticleMicrosoft gives ‘lousy T-shirts’ to Windows Phone 7 jailbreakers
The guys behind ChevronWP7, the first Windows Phone 7 jailbreaking tool, are in Redmond to meet with Microsoft about opening the new mobile operating system to third-party applications.
View ArticleOffice Web Apps to get new challenger: IBM Symphony
IBM today announced it's taking Lotus Symphony, a productivity suite based on open-source OpenOffice, to the cloud to compete with Microsoft's Office Web Apps.
View ArticleLinux chief: Microsoft ‘used to be our big rival, but now it’s kind of like...
In the battle between Microsoft and Linux, Linux has won and no longer gives a hoot about Microsoft, the open-source foundation’s leader says. Except for the personal computer, where Microsoft has a...
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