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Submission + - Microsoft launches Browser-based Word and Excel? (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by JCWDenton on Monday October 01, 2007 @07:02AM

JCWDenton writes: In a bid to spin its web-based version of Office into contention with rival internet behemoth Google, Microsoft has said it will begin accepting applications for beta testing its web apps later this year.

There is one significant difference, however: unlike Google apps, Microsoft said users of its new service can only create or edit online documents if they have Office software already installed on their machines.

Microsoft said features of its Office Live Workspace would include allowing users to upload more than 1,000 documents to free personal websites.

Submission + - Microsoft loses anti-trust appeal (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by JCWDenton on Monday September 17, 2007 @04:52AM

JCWDenton writes: Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute.

The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position.

Submission + - GPL violoation. One man War? (sourceforge.net)

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JCWDenton

on Monday August 27, 2007 @05:58AM

JCWDenton writes: "How can one man enforce his GPL-ed code?
From the writer of Media Player Classic:
Recently I've notified about these two products that they use code from the guliverkli project, one of them is free but closed source and not GPLed player (KMPlayer, http://www.kmplayer.com/), while the other is a fully commercial product (http://www.vx30.com/). There are boundled dshow filters, string, toolbars, dialogs, command line switches, etc..., which can be verified easily by just running the applications and taking a look, or a bit harder by analysing the memory dump. Since I have no better idea about what to do now (I got no reply to the email I sent to kmplayer's developer, it would probably be the same with vx30's too...), I'm posting this as a news here. The developements are going slow anyway because of my job and life, but these cases won't inspire me either.
What would your next step be, or how would you assist this developer in need?"

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