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Ballmer memo on where Microsoft is hea...

Full text of a memo Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent out this message to the rank and file yesterday, after the announcement that Windows and online chief Kevin Johnson was leaving.... More

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The BPI's grand waste of paper

Now that I've written my straight news story on the BPI's imminent scare campaign against illegal filesharing, I thought I'd vent my spleen on the subject. What's going to happen... More

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VMware out with results and free deal

It is busy days at VMware as the company said goodbye to its president and chief executive, faced rumblings from investors worried about the company's strategy and then decided to come... More

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More in this Special Report

  • Munich embraces Linux at last

    News The City of Munich has finally started to migrate to Linux on the desktop, a year later than planned

  • Pioneering desktop Linux project put on ice

    News Ambitious plans by Bergen to move to an open source desktop environment have been suspended.

  • Taking on the Office gorilla, online

    News T J Kang, chief executive of online Office start-up ThinkFree, hopes his company can steal a chunk of Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar revenue while the software giant drags its feet

  • $100 laptop 'will boost desktop Linux'

    News The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project will make Linux as popular on the desktop as it is on the server today, according to Nicholas Negroponte, head of the project and founder of MIT's media lab

  • Desktop Linux for small business

    Group Test Is your business ready to take the open source plunge? We test five leading desktop Linux distributions and come up with one winner

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: a first look

    Preview Although it won't ship until spring 2007, Steve Jobs has given a public preview of Apple's next operating system.

  • Alternatives to Microsoft Office

    Buyer's Guide In the world of productivity suites, Corel's WordPerfect Office X3 and StarOffice 8 aren't the dominant players, but they each bring strong qualities to the field, such as affordability and ease of use. Still, do they have what it takes to stand up to Microsoft Office?

  • Type and travel: Web-based word processors

    Buyer's Guide Who needs to buy desktop software when free online word processors let you write all you want, access your files anywhere and invite other people to get on the same page?

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Featured Talkback

Can you imagine what would have happened if the great philosophers, scientists, musicians, artists and writers had patented their ideas so that nobody else could use them without paying. We today wouldn't be able to have a conversation without violating somebodies intellectual property. The arguement of the free software community is that software should be treated in the same manner, copyrightable but not patentable.

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Microsoft exec talks patent politics

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Its the applications and device drivers that run on windows that cement its dominance. How many people would fork out hundreds of pounds for Vista if Linux ran all the software and kit they wanted to use.

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Windows' dominance stifles demand for Linux