Open source software has hit the European Commission agenda. But whether it will actually be formally adopted is likely to depend on personal relations between Erkki Liikanen and Neil Kinnock. Liikanen, Commissioner for Enterprise and the...
But the impossible seems to have happened: Microsoft is going open source. Surely not. Is this the same Redmond-based behemoth that we've been loving to hate for so long? Has Washington State's famous Gap-clad plutocrat finally lost his...
Just last week, Microsoft revealed plans to make users re-install future desktop versions of Windows following hardware upgrades or certain other changes - and to let it know by phone or online before so doing.
In the third and final part of his series on intellectual property rights director at Black Sheep Research Martin Brampton argues in favour of open source software - as a different form of software distribution, not one without rights.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has used the software giant's latest executive email to stoke up Microsoft's fight against the rise of Linux. The 2,600-word missive was titled "customer focus: comparing Windows with Linux and UNIX".
Leaked memos and drafts of important documents not meant for public consumption - though increasingly in the case of the latter readable through 'track changes' functionality in Word not being disabled - are nothing new.