EU watchdogs have their eye on Microsoft Office
(Via Todd Bishop) Bloomberg News has the story: The European Union may start a new investigation into allegations Microsoft Corp. is abusing its dominance in products such as Word and Excel, EU...
View ArticleIBM avoiding Vista, will go to Linux desktops internally?
That’s the story from the Windows Vista Weblog which points (via NeoSeeker) to a report on Groklaw from LinuxForum on Monday quoting IBM’s Andreas Pleschek. Pleschek, who is “working at IBM in...
View ArticleOpenDocument scores two
The mention of IBM’s Lotus products in a previous post reminds me that, as expected, IBM has announced that they have jumped on the OpenDocument bandwagon in a big way: IBM chose the Deutsche Notes...
View ArticleGoogle’s online spreadsheet arrives – what do they really mean by that?
As expected, Google announced their online spreadsheet yesterday, or a “limited test” at least, and the buzz is intense. Elinor Mills and Martin LaMonica at CNET offer Google guns for Microsoft:...
View ArticleMicrosoft Financial Analyst Meeting recap
Below are some selected highlights from yesterday’s Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2006. As I mentioned previously, the list of speakers with copies of their presentations, and transcripts and/or...
View ArticleGood news and bad news overseas for Microsoft
Some of the good news is that Microsoft’s business is booming in Russia: Microsoft says sales in Russia have surged 72 per cent in the year to July as piracy declined and incomes rose, boosting demand...
View ArticleMicrosoft Novell deal on Linux?
Microsoft has raised a media alert for a press conference at 2PM Pacific time where CEO Steve Ballmer will make “an industry announcement.” There are no more official details than that, but the Wall...
View ArticleMicrosoft Miscellany, February 25, 2007
Some Microsoft news items from last week that did not get a post of their own. Microsoft competitor VMware is profiled in the NY Times. Uh-oh! Someone just said “Microsoft” and ”bundling.” Wii outsold...
View ArticleMicrosoft claims open source infringes 235 patents
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer apparently so liked the hole he was digging with his vague dyspeptic grumblings about Linux infringement on Microsoft patents that he called on the Microsoft legal...
View ArticleIBM offers Open Office as a reborn Lotus Symphony
It’s been little known outside the enterprise software market that IBM has been offering variants of open source Open Office desk top software as part of their Lotus Notes email and collaboration...
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