Category Archives: MSFT

Microsoft Withdraws Bid for Yahoo

Posted on 5/5/2008 by Ben

мебелимебелиYay! I guess this means Flickr will компютри втора употребаnot be merged with Windows Live Photo Gallery.

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Yahoo and Microsoft

Posted on 2/1/2008 by Ben

Many people have pointed out that the scary thing about Microsoft potentially buying Yahoo is that Yahoo owns many important web sites (Flickr, del.icio.us, upcoming.org, etc.) and supports many important open source projects (PHP, FreeBSD, YUI, Hadoop, Squid, etc.) I’m … Continue reading →

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ODF support for Office

Posted on 7/6/2006 by Ben

Microsoft have announced an ODF plug-in for Office and already released a prototype version under a BSD license. Kudos to Microsoft for finally doing the right thing. I think they realized that if they didn’t do this, they couldn’t say … Continue reading →

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Microsoft’s trust problem, part 2

Posted on 4/29/2006 by Ben

Samba creator takes stand in Microsoft case Once a year, he said, top software programmers from rival software companies from around the world gather at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, California, for what they term a “plugfest.” The engineers … Continue reading →

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Microsoft’s trust problem

Posted on 4/29/2006 by Ben

Microsoft exec calls for calm on OSS site But instead of playing the “hate Microsoft for being Microsoft” game, Parris cited a real-world example for his mistrust: In the late 1990s Microsoft threatened to pull Windows from the Republic of … Continue reading →

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