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The virtual tracks left by people as they change jobs delineate the shifting patterns of the business world: a concentration towards or away...

I knew that I knew nothing about aQuantive. Here, for example, is something rather important that I didn't know I didn't know: Inf...

Interesting : Today UK regulator Ofcom released its review of the ~750 responses it received during a public consultation earlier this year ...

Google's story that it's really, really, really not competing with Microsoft gets thinner by the day. Apparently , it's just bo...

So, details of the Microsoft-Novell agreement have been released . IANAL, but this is unbelievable: 7.2 ***. If a *** (or ***e.g., an *** ...

This is getting seriously hard to parse : In a surprise announcement earlier today at the Open Source Business Conference, Novell and the El...

As I've written elsewhere , Microsoft's FUD is more interesting for what it says about the company's deepest fears than for its ...

Recently I was bemused by Microsoft's espousal of ODF, and now here we have the company spreading more joy: The company on Monday is ex...

First, this incredible opening par : Some of the changes in the upcoming release of Windows Server 2008 are a response to features and perfo...

Interesting : Microsoft has apparently paid $6 billion for a company I've never heard of - aQuantive . Aside from demonstrating my shal...

No, really : Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has voted to support the addition of OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.0 to the nonexclusive ...

The hot news, of course, is Microsoft's threat to sue the entire open source ecosystem. Or maybe not. As Techdirt rightly points out...

Very interesting development here: Microsoft is starting to pursue Yahoo. This is completely logical: Microsoft is getting so utterly trou...

Maybe I'm an incorrigible optimist, but these look hopeful signs : The U.S. Supreme Court made it easier to challenge patents for failin...

As regular readers may have noticed, I'm not a big fan of Flash. But news that Adobe is open-sourcing Flex, its development framework...

So let's get this straight : What got really interesting was when Yusseri raised the issue of OOXML and why didn't Microsoft just wo...

A strange post here from the usually perceptive James Governor: One of my current hobby horses is that we the industry needs to move beyond...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is using a speech in Beijing to unveil a new low-cost bundle of Office and Windows, one of several new initiat...

"It was like the movie 'Men in Black,'" says Rep. Homan. "Three Microsoft lobbyists, all wearing black suits." A...

This , at first sight, is just sad. But maybe it's actually interesting: to see whether someone who apparently got it, and now clearly ...