 Microsoft News AlertNetwork World's Microsoft News Alert, 11/01/07Microsoft plots ambitious SOA roadmap, 10/30/07: Microsoft Tuesday laid out an ambitious SOA roadmap around a set technologies code-named Oslo that will be blended into its middleware, development, and management tools and some of its emerging enterprise online services. Microsoft continues pursuit of software pirates, 10/31/07: Microsoft Wednesday continued its efforts to stop people from pirating or using pirated versions of its software. Facebook chooses Microsoft over Google, 10/24/07: Facebook will sell a $240 million minority stake to Microsoft, which as part of the deal will also expand the advertising services it provides to the social networking phenom, the companies said Wednesday in a statement.
Microsoft and open-source backers: best 'frenemies' forever, 10/25/07: Ballmer's statement that Linux "uses our intellectual property"-- along with follow-up claims by Microsoft executives that they had found violations of 235 patents in Linux and other open-source software -- caused a sudden refrosting of what had been a slowly thawing relationship between the company and the open-source community. Microsoft to buy Thai health software vendor, 10/29/07: Microsoft Monday said it has agreed to buy a Thai software vendor that specializes in hospital administration applications, and plans to sell the software in emerging markets. Four sentenced in Microsoft fraud scheme, 10/26/07: The U.S. Attorney’s Office says that four people were sentenced to prison and required to make $40 million in restitution for a scheme to defraud Microsoft into giving them software discounts by pretending to be academic institutions. Microsoft opens up virtualization API, 10/25/07: Microsoft has announced that a key API of its hypervisor technology will be open sourced. Today on Microsoft Subnet: Wal-Mart begins selling $198 Linux computer loaded with links to Google Apps. Michael Dortch shudders over the three faces of Microsoft: Why does is it compete against itself in the SMB unified communications market? Microsoft Subnet blogger Alex Lewis continues his quest to find the gPhone. Google appears to be in discussions with HTC and LG. John Obeto gloats that there is trouble in ODF city, and Sue Hanley explains how, when rolling out SharePoint, you can learn a lot from the social networking sites. Editor's note: Starting the week of Nov. 12, subscribers to the HTML version of this newsletter will notice some enhancements to the layout that will provide you with easier and clearer access to a wider range of resources at Network World. We hope you enjoy the enhancements and we thank you for reading Network World newsletters. |
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