The world's fastest-growing economies reject Microsoft
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Blog: Microsoft tried to get its new OOXML file format standard ratified by India and Brazil.  It failed.  Now what?
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Indian software companies, which have been busy conquering the world and neglecting their backyard, should not continue doing so. This is because the domestic market is going to grow into a huge opportunity
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Microsoft Corp. has failed in a first step to win enough support to make the data format behind its flagship Office software a global standard, the International Standards Organization said Tuesday.
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Business & money: Fears grow of market turbulence stunting global growth.
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By Shyla Sangaran  ASIA has emerged as the fastest growing Web threat market in the world, overtaking North America, according to Trend Micro Inc.
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I have no problem with Microsoft operating in a market environment. Given a choice, I am sure many of us would gladly pay for Windows and Office rather than use Linux and Open Office.
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The world's economy should grow at its fastest rate in 30 years in 2004, despite rising oil prices, the IMF says.
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The US Patent and Trademark Office has preliminarily rejected a Microsoft patent on a system for recognizing computer files, a victory for &quot;open source&quot; advocates
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BERKELEY: The US has nothing to fear from rapidly growing technology markets in India and China, Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft said.
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In a preliminary ruling, the government rejected Microsoft&#39;s 1996 patent on technology for saving files on computers using easy-to-remember names.
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Microsoft (Quote, Chart) is fighting to hold onto a multi-million dollar deal with the municipal government of Beijing. On Nov. 17, Microsoft beat domestic software developers to snag a $3.6 million, three
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Microsoft&#39;s patent on the File Allocation Table disk format has been rejected by the US Patent Office, on the grounds that it should never have been granted in the first place.
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Forget about finding the next Microsoft. You'll do better by looking at what others don't want.
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It's interesting to see that Malaysia is one of the few countries where IIS is dominant. But it's not a big surprise because Microsoft is very strongly entrenched in the Malaysian IT mindset, definitely more so than in Europe or US. And although i'm a long-time IIS supporter, these figures have made me realize that we don't really care either way. A rough mental count tells me that 30% of our websites are on IIS, and 70% on Apache.    Rank Country Apache% IIS%   1 Japan 73 9   2= Indonesia 70 23   2= Korea 70 25   - Global average 67 21   4= Philippines 60 24   4= New Zealand 60 30    6 Pakistan 57 28   7= Thailand 54 38   7= Australia 54 38    9 Taiwan 47 46   10 Singapore 45 40   11 Malaysia 42 51   12 India 41 49   13 China 35 56
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Microsoft has been forced to fight for its lucrative Asian market, following government agreements to switch to other open-source software.
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The International Monetary Fund says emerging economies will not be immune from a slowdown among wealthier nations.