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  • Microsoft not yet open for business

    The most impressive aspect of Microsoft's statement on Thursday in favour of caring and sharing wasn't in anything the company said. It was the speed at which the world, or that part of it not in a commercial relationship with Microsoft, digested the information and replied: Heard it before. Not good enough.

  • Microsoft faces AU$721m fine from EU

    Antitrust regulators from the European Union's 25 countries voted unanimously on Monday to levy new daily fines on Microsoft for flouting a 2004 ruling, two people close to the case said.

  • Microsoft commits to XML docs for long term

    Responding to a request from the European Union to improve data interoperability, Microsoft has committed in perpetuity to offering a royalty-free license of Office-related XML document formats.

  • EU upholds Microsoft penalties

    Microsoft will have to offer a version of Windows without a bundled media player while its appeal against the EU makes its way through the courts.

  • Europe rejects Microsoft's licence offer

    The server interoperability licence proposed by Microsoft treats open source vendors unfairly and has unreasonably high royalties, according to the EC .

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  • Passport to get Web services stamp

    Microsoft this summer will lay out a plan to make its .Net Passport authentication service more Web services-friendly.

  • Can biometrics move beyond borders?

    Countries including the UK and the US are putting biometrics at the forefront of plans to improve national border security but there are still significant issues to be solved before the technology is up to the job.

  • Passport to get Web services stamp

    Microsoft intends to lay out a plan to make its .Net Passport authentication service more Web services-friendly.

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