Microsoft and Citrix got together Thursday to beat up VMware and warn it off their desktop turf. They position VMware as a server virtualization company with little skill or interest in the desktop that’s using View, its desktop virtualization product, as a “sweetener to sell server virtualization” and screwing up the customer and the VDI [...]
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Microsoft and Amazon have signed a broad patent cross-license that Microsoft said covers Amazon’s e-book reader “Kindle, which employs both open source and Amazon’s proprietary software components, and Amazon’s use of Linux-based servers.” Facts being thin on the ground one is left to speculate that that means all of Amazon’s Linux-based servers everywhere including all [...]
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Claiming to have struck the tightest, most deeply integrated relationship ever seen in the industry – apparently the next best thing to one of them acquiring the other – HP and Microsoft said Wednesday that together they’re going to pour $250 million over the next three years into a new cloud computing venture. Microsoft CEO [...]
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After 10 years of trench warfare and a body count of close to $1.8 billion in fines, the European Commission is getting ready to pass Microsoft the roach of concord and close the book on the case. The EC said Wednesday that a final settlement of the browser issue, Europe’s updated version of the old [...]
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Microsoft Thursday began a belated and limited beta of its newfangled browser-based Office Web Apps, the widgetry that’s supposed to joust in the cloud with Google Apps and the other free or low-cost online Office wannabes. It’s their first public outing. The invitation-only technical preview for consumers, available through Windows Live, only includes Word, Excel [...]
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Microsoft Tuesday filed an emergency motion with the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington looking for a stay of the permanent injunction ordering Word and Office off the US market by October 10. It wants the stay while it appeals the decision. The order came down late last Tuesday as part [...]
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SpringSource Wednesday trotted out an Enterprise Java Cloud, an announcement that’s supposed to shed some light on the synergies between SpringSource and the cloud-smitten VMware, which said last week that it’s buying SpringSource for upwards of $400 million. Seems the acquisitive SpringSource, in turn, recently bought Platform-as-a-Service start-up Cloud Foundry Inc, the source of its [...]
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The notoriously plaintiff-leaning US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction Tuesday prohibiting Microsoft from selling any Microsoft Word products in the United States that “have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML.” Microsoft, which means to appeal, must comply with the injunction [...]
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According to WHOIS Microsoft as of Tuesday owned office.com, a domain name that it will presumably use in its cloud defense against Google Apps et al and replace the less streamline office.microsoft.com when it come time to field its lightweight Office Web versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. So far it’s not saying. It [...]
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Like the Byzantine Empire before it, IBM has cast another bronze tube meant to spit Greek fire at Microsoft and break its siege of the desktop. The ingredients this time consist of Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system and Virtual Bridges’ Virtual Enterprise Remote Desktop Environment (VERDE) 2.0 larded with IBM’s own Smart Client desktop software otherwise [...]
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