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Software patent campaigners have reacted with surprise to an apparent change in the European Commission's stance on those patents.
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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The European Commission is reluctant to recommend the OpenDocument file format, even though the format has been endorsed by international standards groups.
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New variants of the Mytob worm are using a phishing-style e-mail to fool people into downloading malicious code.
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