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Microsoft's Antitrust Concessions Are 'pointless'
News 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 EU. The EC criticised Microsoft's original server...
[July 13, 2005, 17:55]
Microsoft Struggles To Work With Open Source
News Microsoft has responded to some of the concerns about its proposed server interoperability licence, but has not yet worked out how to stop disadvantaging open source vendors. Last month the European Commission (EC) rejected Microsoft's proposed...
[April 5, 2005, 18:20]
Microsoft's Draft Licence, Step By Step
News In last year's European Commission antitrust ruling against Microsoft, the software giant agreed to create a server interoperability licence that would allow rival makers of server software to write applications that can "achieve full...
[March 18, 2005, 17:10]
EU Rejects Microsoft's Licence Offer
News The European Commission has rejected Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence, saying that it contained a number of serious flaws including unjustifiably high royalty fees and the exclusion of open source vendors.
[March 18, 2005, 9:40]
Microsoft Concedes Royalties In Antitrust Offering
News In March, the EC rejected Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence, saying it contained a number of serious flaws including unjustifiably high royalty fees and the exclusion of open source vendors.
[June 6, 2005, 13:05]
Microsoft Antitrust Decision On Ice
News The spokesman said the market test of Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence has been completed and the EC is now analysing the results. This is already the second version of the server interoperability license - the original version...
[July 15, 2005, 11:40]
Microsoft Opens Doors To Virtualisation Format
News At an interoperability conference in Brussels, the software giant said that its Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Image Format specification can be used by third parties without the need for them to get a commercial licence.
[October 18, 2006, 8:45]
Microsoft To Publish APIs And List Patents
News The software maker also said it will work more closely with other major implementers of standards in its high-volume server products, and "document for the development community how it supports such standards, including those Microsoft extensions...
[February 21, 2008, 16:06]
Microsoft Publishes More Protocol Documentation
News As detailed in Microsoft's interoperability principles, all software developers will have access to this protocol documentation without having to sign a licence or pay a royalty fee. Microsoft describes its interoperability principles as a set of...
[April 9, 2008, 8:45]
Microsoft: Getting To Grips With Open Source
News While Microsoft supports the ODF standard, Bacon points out that it has only recently ratified the standard for the most basic levels of interoperability with its products, and only after pressure from key customer bases.
[July 20, 2006, 13:35]
Microsoft's EU Proposal Is Monstrous, Says Samba
News The co-founder of Samba, the open source file and print server software, is due to contact the European Commission (EC) in the next couple of weeks to lobby for changes to Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence.
[February 4, 2005, 17:05]
Microsoft Won't Dance With Samba
News Microsoft's terms, says the FSF, will mean that open source software such as the widely-used Samba file and print server software, will not be included in the interoperability measures intended by the EU.
[January 28, 2005, 13:20]
Microsoft's Antitrust Offering 'blocks Samba'
News The European Commission (EC) said on Monday that it will market test Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence over the next two weeks, before deciding whether or not the software giant has complied with last year's ruling.
[June 8, 2005, 15:15]
Source Code Is Not The Right Protocol
Leader This attempted (and, we must hope, doomed) strategy from Microsoft adds to the company's cynical and blatant moves to shut out open source software from the interoperability licence. On the face of it, Microsoft looks like it is being reasonable to...
[January 26, 2006, 12:00]
Briton Appointed To Monitor Microsoft
News The Commission admits that Barrett has a complex job ahead of him, particularly with regard to the interoperability licence — where Microsoft was recently accused of offering "pointless" concessions. Microsoft had agreed to make some server...
[October 5, 2005, 13:35]
Microsoft Makes Last-ditch Effort To Appease EC
News The EC rejected Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence in March this year. Although Microsoft announced in April that they had addressed the majority of the EC's concern in this area, the EC said a few weeks ago that there were still...
[June 1, 2005, 13:15]
FSF Keeps Pushing For Microsoft Server Protocols
News The European Commission conducted a market test of Microsoft's server interoperability licence over the summer to evaluate the "innovative character of the protocols" and check whether the royalties Microsoft proposes to charge are "reasonable".
[November 25, 2005, 12:25]
Open-source Community Reacts To Microsoft Move
News Commit to interoperability with open source: Instead of offering a patent licence for its protocol information on the basis of licensing arrangements it knows are incompatible with the GPL (General Public License) — the world's most widely used...
[February 22, 2008, 12:42]
Microsoft Ups Ante In IM Battle
News Gurdeep Singh Pall, general manager of Microsoft's real-time collaboration unit, said a simpler path to interoperability was on the agenda. But some significant hang-ups continue to stall widespread adoption in the workplace, including a lack of...
[March 6, 2003, 7:49]
Open-source Group Aims At Interoperability
News Some of the big proprietary vendors have a notion of full-blown suites and some promise of interoperability," said Michael Harvey, chief marketing officer of Centric CRM and one of the people who helped form the alliance.
[February 14, 2007, 8:27]
