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  • Lindows--low cost, but a changed tune

    Lindows.com, maker of a Linux-based operating system originally designed to run popular Windows programs, is offering PC makers a flat-rate licensing plan for its OS, in contrast to the per-unit fees charged by Microsoft and others.

  • It's reality check time for Lindows

    Lindows.com, the operating system maker, is being forced to re-evaluate its strategy to lure the average consumer away from Windows. The company has increasingly moved away from its original claim to fame--running popular Windows applications on a non-Microsoft platform.

  • Lindows tackles DVD, music

    Linux software maker Lindows took another crack at Microsoft on Tuesday with a package intended to mimic the software giant's Windows XP Media Center.

  • Lindows case set for trial

    A federal judge in Seattle refused Wednesday a request by software maker Lindows to toss out Microsoft's trademark case against it, paving the way for an April trial.

  • Lindows bids to scuttle Microsoft court action

    Upstart operating system company Lindows is hoping to deal a final death blow to the suit brought against it by Microsoft.

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  • It's reality check time for Lindows

    Lindows.com, the operating system maker, is being forced to re-evaluate its strategy to lure the average consumer away from Windows. The company has increasingly moved away from its original claim to fame--running popular Windows applications on a non-Microsoft platform.

  • Lindows bids to scuttle Microsoft court action

    Upstart operating system company Lindows is hoping to deal a final death blow to the suit brought against it by Microsoft.

  • Linux continues desktop march

    The good news for Linux as an operating system for the desktop--as opposed to the server--is that it is set to become number two after Windows in the next year or so.

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  • Lindows--low cost, but a changed tune

    Lindows.com, maker of a Linux-based operating system originally designed to run popular Windows programs, is offering PC makers a flat-rate licensing plan for its OS, in contrast to the per-unit fees charged by Microsoft and others.

  • Lindows bids to scuttle Microsoft court action

    Upstart operating system company Lindows is hoping to deal a final death blow to the suit brought against it by Microsoft.

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