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Microsoft adds to open source efforts

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Microsoft, the company least-likely to be associated with open source software, has made good on earlier promises to contribute to open source projects. The company first started its slow move to acceptance of open source in March and April of 2008 when the company announced a series of interoperability plans. Among these were document interoperability commitments which were largely overshadowed by a vicious document format fight over OOXML and the OpenDocument Format.

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Comments (9)

djohnston ·
Quoting:It's slow going but the company once viewed as enemy number one for open source software is slowing warming to this new world.
Well, at least he got that part right.
herzeleid ·
Well, if, by "warming to this new world" he means "infiltrating the enemy camp" then, yeah...
djohnston ·
What I was getting at is that he says "slowing warming", rather than "slowly warming". Sorry, it's a slow day.

azerthoth ·
So microsoft is responsible for global warming !?!
alc ·
"So microsoft is responsible for global warming !?!"

And thats just the tip of the iceberg.:-)
dinotrac ·
alc ---

Sorry, but it was the tip of the iceberg last year.

Now just a puddle.
Bob_Robertson ·
Here I thought they were going to talk about the speed of execution of Microsoft products.
TxtEdMacs ·
Quoting: [...] I thought they were going to talk about the speed of execution of Microsoft products.
The answer you seek is: they [execute] by firing personnel and killing products expeditiously. Just this past week ...

YBT
gus3 ·
But they're still advertising the New Xbox 360 as having "Kinect capability".

Yippee, a gaming system can connect to a cell phone that hardly anybody bought, and nobody else will buy. I'm underwhelmed.

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