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    Software patent campaigners have reacted with surprise to an apparent change in the European Commission's stance on those patents.

  • Linux ensnares another European city

    Bergen, Norway, has opted to replace Windows and Unix machines with Linux on servers for its schools and city databases, and could later put the open-source operating system on desktop machines.

  • 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.

  • EC to decide Microsoft's fate by mid-July

    The European Commission may take until the middle of July to decide whether to impose on Microsoft a daily fine of 2 million euros, about US$2.6 million.

  • ISO approval 'unlikely for Microsoft Open XML'

    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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    An update of the technology, which is due to launch late Wednesday during company Chairman Bill Gates' keynote speech at CES, is already under way.

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    The information technology boom and bust of the 1990s is leaving a lot more than worthless shares and frustrated investors in its wake; it is producing a mountain of electronic waste as technological advancements make computers and other devices containing toxic products obsolete at an increasing pace.

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