Microsoft has invested in security company Finjan Software and licensed its patents that cover ways to protect systems against previously unknown security threats.
Open source solutions provider Cybersource has lashed out at Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer's statement in Singapore that Linux is potentially in violation of various software idea patents.
Microsoft agreed to pay Norway's Opera Software US$12.75 million to head off a threatened lawsuit over code that made some Web pages on MSN look bad in certain versions of Opera's Web browser, CNET News.com has learned.
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Microsoft last Monday reached a preliminary settlement with consumers in Minnesota to end an antitrust suit that claimed the company had overcharged for its Windows operating system and its Office application software.
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When you're the industry's 800-pound gorilla, what's a few billion dollars to pay for problems to disappear?
With the settlement Monday of its long-simmering patent dispute with InterTrust Technologies, Microsoft has cleared away legal concerns that have been looming over many of its most important plans.
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