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Microsoft cleared the air July 5 on its obligations to GNU General Public License Version 3 support, declaring it will ...
under the deal it penned in November with Novell to administer certificates for the Linux distribution. Microsoft also said July 5 that its agreement with Novell, as well as those with Linux rivals Xandros and Linspire, were unaffected by the release June 29 of GPLv3 by the Free Software Foundation.
Read more News Source - OS News
Publish date - 05:24:16 07/06/08

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Microsoft to sell Office, security software subscription for $70 a year
Microsoft Corp. will begin selling its Office programs to consumers on a subscription basis starting mid-July, in a bid to reach thrifty PC buyers who would otherwise pass on productivity software.
Read more News Source - USA Today
Publish date - 16:30:59 07/02/08

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Microsoft starts its Software as a Service with Office + Apps
Microsoft Corp. will begin selling its Office programs to consumers on a subscription basis starting mid-July, at a price of US$69.99 per year. The consumer software subscription service will include free updates to all applications for as long as you subscribe and will carry the name Equipt. Applications bundled under the subscription include Microsoft Office, [...]
Read more News Source - Geek.com
Publish date - 14:36:01 07/03/08

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Stallman Attacks Gates, Microsoft, & Charity Foundation
An anonymous reader writes "Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, has an article in the BBC in which he maintains that Gates' departure from Microsoft doesn't mean the end of proprietary software and that the free software community needs to stand strong to undo the damages Bill Gates, Microsoft, and other proprietary software vendors (explicitly naming Apple & Adobe amongst ...
Read more News Source - Slashdot
Publish date - 13:44:26 07/05/08

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"Why didn't Microsoft simply work with the original ODF people to help build their specification?
"For years, the poster child of the anti-open source movement was Microsoft, with its proprietary software model. In recent years, however, the company has changed its views, starting an open source software lab to work on interoperability issues.
Read more News Source - OS News
Publish date - 13:09:26 07/05/08

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Microsoft Hopes Office Subscription Plan Will Counter Free Software
InformationWeek - Microsoft is counting on Equipt's convenience factor to help it fend off threats from Google, IBM, and others that are offering free desktop productivity suites.
Read more News Source - TechWeb via Yahoo! News
Publish date - 04:39:26 07/04/08

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Software: Microsoft bietet erstmals Abo für Word und Co.
Microsoft holt zum Schlag gegen Google aus: Der Softwareriese will erstmals Office-Software im Abonnement anbieten. Damit lassen sich Word, Excel und Powerpoint komplett über das Internet nutzen. Microsoft bringt das Paket zum Kampfpreis auf den Markt – ein großes Risiko, denn Office ist neben Windows die wichtigste Einnahmequelle.
Read more News Source - Die Welt
Publish date - 14:34:06 07/03/08

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Microsoft to take 100% of MSN Israel, buy Internet Gold's stake
Microsoft Corp. plans to acquire the 50.1% it doesn’t already own in MSN Israel Ltd. from partner Internet Gold Ltd., the companies said on Sunday.
Read more News Source - Market Watch
Publish date - 08:51:26 07/06/08

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Microsoft: Were Taking Software Off the Desktop and Moving It to Circuit City
Microsoft is moving desktop computing to the cloud, but if you want to come along, you've got to change planes at Circuit City. This afternoon, Microsoft officially announced "Equipt,"a new package of low-end productivity software and hosted services.
Read more News Source - AllThingsD Online via Yahoo! Finance
Publish date - 22:17:47 07/02/08

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Microsoft führt Abo-Modell für Office-Software ein
Seattle - Microsoft führt Mitte Juli ein neues Vertriebsmodell für seine Office-Software ein. Privatanwender in den USA können dann für 70 Dollar im Jahr (44,30 Euro) die Nutzung mehrerer Office-Anwendungen und des Virenschutzprogramms OneCare abonnieren.
Read more News Source - net-tribune.de
Publish date - 06:52:47 07/03/08

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Langganan Microsoft Office USD70 per Tahun
Tengah Juli, Microsoft Corp menawarkan layanan langgan baru untuk aplikasi perkantoran Microsoft Office dan antivirus OnceCare Live dalam satu fitur langgan (subscription) yang disebut dengan Equipt.
Read more News Source - okezone
Publish date - 10:00:17 07/06/08

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Avangate Presents New Trends in Software Distribution at Microsoft WPC
Avangate, full service provider for electronic software distribution and reseller management for software vendors is present, second year in a row, at the Microsoft Worldwide Partners' Conference in Houston, Texas. (PRWeb Jul 3, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/avangate/microsoftwpc/prweb1067344.htm
Read more News Source - PRWeb
Publish date - 08:53:21 07/03/08

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Avangate Presents New Trends in Software Distribution at Microsoft WPC
Avangate, full service provider for electronic software distribution and reseller management for software vendors is present, second year in a row, at the Microsoft Worldwide Partners' Conference in Houston, Texas.
Read more News Source - PRWeb via Yahoo! News
Publish date - 07:36:25 07/03/08

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Microsoft Equipt: subscription-based Office and OneCare software
Microsoft has announced that it will sell a subscription-based bundled version of its Office and OneCare software in the States later this month.
Read more News Source - Tech Digest via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News
Publish date - 17:32:38 07/02/08

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