The International Organisation for Standardisation is unlikely to adopt Microsoft Office Open XML format, now that it has approved the OpenDocument Format, according to analyst group Gartner.
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Microsoft Australia is urging the IT industry to "pay to play" for its IT Fund for Kids "Know IT All" online IQ Test, scheduled for two-and-a-half weeks' time.
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After weeks of controversy over the issue, Microsoft has decided to return to a position of legislative support for gay and lesbian rights, at both the state and federal level.
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The general manager of Lotus software is a 22-year IBM veteran who was instrumental in IBM's Deep Blue supercomputing chess project. Now he's hoping to stay one move ahead of Microsoft.
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Big Blue says it has a slimmed-down alternative to Microsoft Office that it will bundle into the next version of its portal software.
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