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    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.

  • EU needs more than cookie control from Google

    Google's move to cut the lifespan of its cookie's to a rolling two years may not be enough to appease a European Union privacy group whose major concern is server log data use.

  • Real, Microsoft reach truce

    Microsoft and RealNetworks announced a sweeping deal on Tuesday that puts aside their legal differences and aims to shore up their respective digital-music strategies.

  • Ballmer: No sleep lost over Linux

    Exclusive: Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, playing up to his legendary image as a hard-driving salesman, didn't mince words in discounting the gathering threat to Microsoft's ambitions posed by Linux.

  • Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'

    A firm involved in the market testing of Microsoft's server interoperability licence on Wednesday criticised the royalty-free concessions the software giant made in its final offer to the European Union.

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  • Winners and users: Tech prophecies for 2006

    IT remains a lively, exciting and suprising place. That makes predictions particularly foolish, but here are some picks for the winners and losers of the next twelve months.

  • Lessons from Microsoft

    Microsoft's venture into online news and digital music proves how volatile and inconsistent the IT industry is. What if the software giant decides to make PCs and servers next? How will this affect IT spending?

  • Chizen: Friends, foes and China

    The big, booming nation is much on the mind of Adobe's CEO. Then there are the little matters of Apple and Microsoft.

  • Is Windows still relevant?

    In the increasingly Google-YouTube-Web 2.0 age we inhabit, it's become fashionable to dismiss Windows as a relic.

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