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• 2007: How was it for Microsoft?

  2007 was an eventful year for Microsoft, with the company playing what it considered to be its trump card (only to discover Vista wasn't trumps, XP was). But the lovable giant had its fingers in many other pies -- making for a year of management changes, entry into unclaimed markets and new alliances.

• Newest GPL draft leaves Novell in the clear

  The Free Software Foundation released the final draft of an updated General Public License late last week, a draft that prohibits future deals similar to the Microsoft-Novell patent pact but lets that one go ahead.

• GPLv3 threatens Microsoft-Novell pact?

  In a US Securities and Exchange Commission submission, Novell said it was concerned that Microsoft could stop selling SUSE Linux coupons if the General Public License version 3 remained in its current form.

• Novell joins EFF for patent reform

  Stung by criticism of its patent pact with Microsoft, Novell agrees to support Electronic Frontier Foundation's patent-busting work.

• Novell to detail Microsoft patent pact

  Delayed annual report will offer details of Novell's patent, interoperability and sales partnership with Redmond.

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• Cyberpeace -- of sorts -- in our time

  Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Novell's Ron Hovsepian make an unlikely pair, and their pact has caught the tech industry by surprise.

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