Is Microsoft becoming an open source advocate?

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	Is Microsoft becoming an open source advocate? People can change. And, as companies are made up of collections of people, so too can companies. I try to keep that in mind as I read through Microsoft's official response (which links to a Word document) to the U.K. government's proposal to standardize the Open Document Format. Surprise, surprise - Microsoft is opposed to it. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Increasing the Value of Your Reports and Dashboards Learn how incorporating other analytical capabilities such as predictive modeling and visualization can increase the value of your reports and dashboards by providing insight from complex data or predicting a future outcome. 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The rise of SDNs certainly took the media focus away from fabrics and that caused many vendors to shift their marketing messages as well. However, one of the vendors that has been fairly consistent with the... Read More Cisco's product transitions hitting router share Perhaps an indication of the tricky product transition it's going through, Cisco's share of the service provider router market slipped 5% in 2013 while Alcatel-Lucent and Juniper gained. Cisco's share slipped from 49% in Q1 to 44% in Q4 of 2013, according to Synergy Research Group. Read More What Sundar Pichai really said about Android security Riding off of an article that appeared in FrAndroid, we reported on Thursday morning that Android head Sundar Pichai explained during a talk at the Mobile World Congress that Android was designed to be more open than it was designed to be safe. In the wake of that article, Google PR was able to reach out to me and provide a transcript of what Pichai actually said. 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Read More When it comes to mybizcard.co LinkedIn has no backbone Read More Examining the ridiculous names of open source projects I recently posted a little comment, over on Google Plus, about some confusion regarding the naming of editions of Ubuntu. That conversation grew from there, and I was reminded of some of the forgotten history of the strange, and rather goofy, naming of some other prominent open source projects. Let's take a quick stroll through some of my favorites, shall we? Most of us are familiar with the name GNU,... Read More U.S. Senator trying to ban Bitcoin clearly doesn't know much about Bitcoin In the latest bit of bad news for the Bitcoin community, Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, has urged Congress to impose a ban on cryptocurrencies, citing its instability, difficulty to regulate, and use for criminal purposes. 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That sounds enticing from a technical perspective, but this isn't really... Read More Google Easter egg leads to story behind 'blink' tag A new Easter egg from the merry pranksters at Google performs an appropriate demonstration for anyone who searches on the word blink plus the acronym html. Read More
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