The European Commission has expressed doubt over Microsoft's announcement claiming a move toward greater interoperability.
Open source software project Samba has signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive protocol documentation for the software giant's Windows workgroup server products.
Microsoft on Tuesday made more technical information available for XAML, a language for designing the user interface of Web and Windows applications.
Responding to pressure customers and governments, Microsoft has announced Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will add support for the Open Document Format (ODF), Portable Document Format (PDF), and XML Paper Specification (XPS).
Microsoft's top executives have promised not to sue open source developers who create non-commercial software based on Microsoft's protocols, but skeptics say it's a ploy to soften its image before the upcoming OOXML vote.
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The proposed SIP standard is key to IM interoperability and to merging voice, data, video and messaging into a single system, says a Microsoft executive.
Most enterprises have a mix of Windows and Unix systems. Columnist Larry Seltzer explores the options for interoperating those systems.
There's a boatload of issues to deal with as J2EE vendors begin releasing J2EE 1.4 certified application servers. One issue is J2EE 1.4 support for SOAP and whether Sun will keep up.
He still has a tough sell ahead but IBM's Bob Sutor has already collaborated with Microsoft and others to fashion the underlying plumbing necessary to turn his vision of Web services into reality.
Australia's very own "smartest man in ICT", Samba author Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, talks about the days when Microsoft was run by programmers, not lawyers, and how the software giant has finally started to give open-source developers due credit.
Microsoft wants Yahoo, Nokia buys Trolltech -- it's a tech supermarket sweep! This week on Club Builder we also look at IE8's new standards mode and have some fun with Linus Torvalds.
The proposed SIP standard is key to IM interoperability and to merging voice, data, video and messaging into a single system, says a Microsoft executive.
After reading of my botched Bluetooth demo, readers offered up their own interoperability horror stories, including how Microsoft's Bluetooth-based keyboards and mice only work with Microsoft-branded Bluetooth transceivers. Can this be for real?
According to court documents, the founder of Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit fought a hard battle to keep Mac Office 97 alive.
The vast majority of people with a need to create PDF files will be served more than adequately by this product, and the price gives it a handy head start over Adobe Acrobat.
America Online says it will allow its next version of AOL Instant Messenger to communicate with ICQ, a surprise move that will topple the long-standing barrier between the company's two popular IM services.
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