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The first time I was really impressed by Microsoft was back in the 1980s. I was being given a private demonstration of a hot new program for...

Here 's what he said: "The economy is helpful. Paying an extra $500 for a computer in this environment -- same piece of hardware --...

Alongside all the high-profile wins for free software, there are what might be called guerilla gains happening in the b ackground – small co...

How much is GNU/Linux worth? Well, its price is zero, but it's clearly incredibly valuable: what to do? Here's what a new paper from...

Paul Ginsparg is one of the key players in the world of open access. Indeed, he was practising it online before it even had a name, when he...

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"We will do some buying of companies that are built around open-source products," Ballmer said during an onstage interview at the ...

Well, that nice Mr. Ballmer did warn us, and here it is: Plaintiffs, IP Innovation L.L.C. and Technology Licensing Corporation (collectivel...

It feels strange to find myself in agreement with Steve Ballmer (eek), but I, too, find all these social networking sites rather faddish . ...

As I've written elsewhere , people have realised that there's a bit of a problem with the term "open source". It's be...

This was something I was going to write about, but someone has gone one better and come up with an entire site devoted to the idea: Open Le...

See ? It's not just me: Stop Him Before He Speaks Again! .... Just keep him quiet! Should we expect another mea-culpa in the inbox? Him...

I am always amused - and slightly annoyed - that so much space is devoted to the wit and wisdom of Steve Ballmer, because basically he has n...

Well, what a surprise : In comments confirming the open-source community's suspicions, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer today declared ...

Understandably everyone is jumping up and down about Microsoft's announcement that it will be working with Novell. But for me, the key...

For all its corporate rapaciousness, Microsoft has always been scrupulous in keeping its partners happy: it knows that much of its immense s...

Microsoft never gives ought for nought. Few remember that originally you had to pay for Internet Explorer, which formed part of something c...

The good news just kept on coming in Steve Jobs's recent MacWorld speech: $5.7 million revenue in the last quarter for Apple; 14 millio...

One indication of Microsoft's inability to handle the threat of the free software model is that fact that it keeps changing its strategy...