Microsoft, Very interesting news article

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Microsoft, Very interesting news article

#1 Post by Truthfinder » Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:04 pm

I just came across a very interesting news aricle concerning Microsoft.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8197990.stm


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Re: Microsoft, Very interesting news article

#2 Post by mattbiernat » Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:52 pm

the smashing failure of vista, opera trials in EU and now this... ms seems to be taking a lot of heat recently.
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#3 Post by qviri » Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:56 pm

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Re: Microsoft, Very interesting news article

#4 Post by craigmontHunter » Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:20 pm

Wow :!: never thought that that could happen - MS has such a stranglehold on the market that this coul dbe a problem if they can't get it changed - especailly with back to school sales.
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Re: Microsoft, Very interesting news article

#5 Post by qviri » Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:43 pm

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Re: Microsoft, Very interesting news article

#6 Post by ZaZ » Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:33 pm

qviri wrote:And this is why software patents are a bad idea.
Couldn't agree more. You see some of the most common sense/next step forward things get patents.
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Re: Microsoft, Very interesting news article

#7 Post by Puppy » Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:00 am

Patented XML format ? That's nonsense. They could say the same about HTML or other ISO standarded formats. XML is used in many software these days.
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