The Court of First Instance in Luxembourg has confirmed that it will rule on Microsoft's appeal of the European Commission's pricey 2004 antitrust decision on Monday September 17, the day before the head of the court Bo Vesterdorf retires. Reuters got the date ear...

Everex is taking a different tack with this open source stuff and is going to sell a $298 Vista Home Basic-based back-to-school PC at Wal-Mart's with OpenOffice 2.2, saving the user the cost of Office and letting him get used to the idea of running open source s...

Three CIOs later, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which was going to ditch Microsoft over its proprietary formats and gave the rival OpenDocument Format (ODF) a lot of credibility, has in hand a draft proposal recognizing Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) f...

Turbolinux CEO Koichi Yano is quoted as saying, 'We support the work the Sourceforge open source community has done to date and felt it was important to become a part of this amazing collaborative effort. Our hope in joining this project is to not only contribute ...

Microsoft was pretty transparent when it called Longhorn Windows Server 2008. On Tuesday at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver COO Kevin Turner said Windows Server 2008 would launch on February 27, 2008 at festivities in Los Angeles that reverberat...

Samba, the open source networked file and print project, and one of the biggest burrs under Microsoft's saddle, particularly with the European Commission, has adopted GPLv3 for all future versions of its code. It is the first major win for the Free Software Found...

The rewritten GPL 3 license, modified to gut Microsoft's patent claims on open source, has been released and Microsoft's reaction has been to issue a statement saying it's not a party to it, has no legal obligations under it, and that the Free Software Foundation ...

In justifying his deal with Microsoft in an open letter and explaining that there's market demand for functionality that can only be filled by proprietary widgetry, Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony observed that 'some distributions have come out, claiming to be taking t...

Mandriva says it won't follow Novell, Linspire and Xandros into Microsoft's lair and wants no part of any stinkin' Microsoft patent protection scheme. CEO Francois Bancilhon says he has seen 'no hard evidence from any of the FUD propagandists that Linux and open s...

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The controversial GPLv3 rewrite came into effect at noon New York time on Friday, putting key pieces of the GNU Linux operating system off-limits to friends of Microsoft like Xandros and Linspire if they ever want to upgrade. Novell's hackles-raising deal with Mic...

StateMirror offers a technology solution that complements server-side storage mechanisms provided by Microsoft. The central tenant of StateMirror technology is the concept of ?mirrored state servers.? Each of the mirrored servers is implemented by a Windows servic...

Having bowed to the Linux enthusiasts - at least in America - and having given them PCs with Ubuntu installed at the factory, Dell is now being pressured to sell the boxes worldwide, offer the same discounts as it does on Windows machines, make the Linux boxes che...

Canonical's billionaire CEO Mark Shuttleworth took to his blog to squelch speculation that Canonical and Ubuntu would be next to follow in the steps of Novell, Xandros and Linspire and cut a patent deal with Microsoft, deals he calls 'trinkets in exchange for air ...

Microsoft has cut a deal with the US government and is going modify Vista to hush Google's complaints that it discourages users from using Google's local desktop search as opposed to Vista's own desktop 'Instant Search.' The move comes after Google charged Micros...

Recursion Software a provider of intelligent middleware and distributed computing solutions, has announced a powerful, mobile application development and .NET interoperability for the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Building on its partnership with Red Ha...

A reported 150 Penguinistas gathered last week at Google at a three-day first-ever Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit that ended last Friday and, according to Reuters, after they emerge from their closed-door meetings they're supposed to 'issue a consensus st...

My goodness, they're starting to fall like nine pins. Linux distributor Linspire has followed Novell and Xandros into a patent protection deal with Microsoft despite the fire-breathing, contract-scorching wrath of the Free Software Foundation and its GPL 3 spoil...

Parasoft Corporation announced the upcoming release of Parasoft .TEST 4.0, an integrated solution for automating a broad range of best practices proven to increase software development team productivity and software quality. Parasoft .TEST ensures developers that ...

Intel is working with Taiwan-based Asustek Computer on a counter to One Laptop Per Child's AMD-based currently $175 XO notebooks. The full-fledged Intel-Asustek PC will start at $199 and go to $299. Other than a low-end Intel chip, the widgets will have a seven-...

Microsoft has bought a little privately held Cincinnati firm called Engyro. A Microsoft partner, Engyro extends the interoperability of System Center Operations Manager 2007. Its Product Connector Suite lets Operations Manager share alert/event information with di...

'We consistently hear from customers that they spend too much time and budget maintaining the systems they have, which leaves limited resources to focus on innovative solutions,' Muglia said. 'With Dynamic IT, we are bringing together the capabilities of the core ...

Microsoft has signed still another of those patent cross-license that will set the open source community off because it claims to indemnify the licensees' use of Linux. This one is with LG Electronics (LGE) and Microsoft's announcement says 'through this agreement...

Now that its long but ultimately uneventful backdating investigation is finally over and it's filed all its missing statements, Novell has returned to making conventional SEC submissions and posting its results. On Wednesday it posted its April quarter. OK, so let...

The prize for the gargantuan deal of the holiday-shortened week goes to private equity house Madison Dearborn Partners LLC, which is buying CDW, which sells computer gear to companies and the government over the web, for $7.3 billion, less the half-a-billion CDW ...

Having forsaken the software business for media and ad sales a few weeks ago, VA Software thought it best to change its name. It's calling itself SourceForge Inc after its good neighborly SourceForge.net open source development hosting property, which last we look...

The SEC has scolded HP for not explaining the rumpus behind Tom Perkins' resignation from the board - the May 2006 resignation that ultimately led to the whole public unraveling of the executive suite's tawdry adventure into pretexting that Perkins objected to, le...

Armed with an Intel government presentation critical of the One Laptop Per Child box, OLTC dream spinner Nicholas Negroponte accused Intel on '60 Minutes' of dumping ~$200 Classmate PC laptops on the third-world markets where he's trying to sell his $176 AMD-based...

Consumer complaints have spurred New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to sue Dell, charging Dell and its finance arm of fraud, false advertising and using deceptive terms and interest rates to boost sales. Cuomo wants such practices enjoined and unspecifie...

Novell is taking a new tack with respect to rehabilitating its image with the Penguinistas. See, it's been between a rock and hard place ever since that deal with Microsoft so loathed by the open source community was announced in November. It has been forced to re...

Oracle is reportedly leading the charge aiming to exploit the Japanese government's latest procurement guidelines set by the country's Communications Ministry in March favoring Linux on bids starting this July. Hence the June deadline on forming the consortium. Li...

Microsoft - in a head-snapping game of good cop-bad cop played this week with open source devotees - voted in favor of adding the enemy OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.0 to the American National Standards list. Then went out and bragged about having 'listened to our c...

Rebutting the Linux huggers who contend that Vista sucks and Microsoft is on the ropes, Bill Gates said from the WinHEC Tuesday that Vista sold 40 million copies its first 100 days, twice as fast as XP, making it Microsoft's fast-selling operating system ever. He ...

The Free Software Foundation is currently expecting to circulate a 'Last Call Draft' of the GPLv3, with its anti-Microsoft codicil, on May 31, ahead of its final adoption on June 30. At that point, according to Eben Moglen, the lawyer who wrote it, 'Novell will be...

And according to what Gutierrez told Fortune senior editor Roger Parloff 'This is not a case of some accidental, unknowing infringement. There is an overwhelming number of patents being infringed,' making it sound treble-damages expensive. Well, not filing suit is...

Wednesday morning Microsoft and Novell waved around the names and testimonials of 12 new customers that they said have come into the controversial Microsoft-Novell interoperability-IP assurance fold, giving Novell the chance to brag that its Linux market share i...

The wake's over and now they're burying the corpse. Progeny Linux Systems ceased operations on Monday. Its founder, Debian creator Ian Murdock, now at Sun as chief operating systems officer, got a day job with the Free Standards Group months ago. Progeny's various...

Well, Google hasn't put Microsoft out of business yet. Redmond is still a money machine. It posted record profits up 65% to $4.93 billion, or 50 cents a share, Thursday on revenues up 32% to $14 billion for the March quarter, its might-as-well-call-it Vista quarte...

Former OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen and his new partner, former Credit Suisse CTO Evan Bauer, wheeled out their new start-up Monday. The for-profit venture, called the Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI), is supposed to oversee the development or acquisition of bus...

Infragistics, a provider of presentation layer development tools, has announced the immediate availability of the NetAdvantage for WPF 2007 Volume 1, a toolset that extends the capabilities of the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) platform by providi...