World Business Briefing | Europe: Microsoft in First Technology License Deal
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Microsoft said it had signed its first agreement to license its technology, almost three years after European Union antitrust regulators ordered the software company to share data to increase competition. Microsoft said the deal, with Quest Software of California, was meant to comply with an antitrust order issued in March 2004 that demanded licensing of software that helps desktop computers communicate with servers. But the deal was met with skepticism from adversaries, who questioned how a company with a longstanding relationship with Microsoft could be considered a rival. The European Commission threatened Microsoft last week with fines as high as 3 million euros ($3.9 million) a day for failing to comply with the order.
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p2pnet.net News:- Europeans will be able to buy a leaned-down version of Microsoft Windows, stripped of its music and video player, and the company will have to license out secret information to its competitors.
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Microsoft agrees to comply with the European Commission's anti-monopoly ruling against it.
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SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. has signed a patent cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp. covering a variety of hardware and software products, the companies said Thursday.
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It's the start of a new era for the company that once argued that giving away the keys to its protocols would somehow reveal the secret of Windows itself: Microsoft has made its first obligatory agreement with a key open source provider.
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Microsoft has made substantial concessions to the European Commission, bringing it into compliance with a 2004 antitrust ruling.
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A &quot;landmark agreement&quot; between Microsoft and England&#39;s Department of Health to renew the agency&#39;s license for desktop products could save it an estimated $608 million.
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Redmond agrees to adhere to the European Commission's antitrust ruling, a ruling it has resisted at cost of hundreds of millions, and will now open up its Windows operating system to allow rivals to compete.
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Microsoft has entered into a licensing agreement with the nonprofit Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF) under which the software giant will be providing developers working on the Samba file and printing system with the information they need to ensure interoperability between their open-source software and Windows.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday launched an initiative to accelerate innovation in science and computing in Europe.
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates signed an agreement Friday with a Spanish association for the blind to develop better software for people with visual impairments.
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SEATTLE - Software giant Microsoft Corp. and corporate network software provider Citrix Systems Inc. said on Tuesday that they had agreed to collaborate and license each other&#39;s technology.
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Wednesday was the first day in the life of a new Central License Agreement for music copyright holders throughout Europe. Now, license authorities and music publishers have agreed to dismantle their "home territories" and recognize each other's copyrights. Is this the prototype for the EU's new single software patent authority?
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REDMOND, Wash., and SEOUL, South Korea, June 6  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. and LG Electronics (LGE) today announced that they have entered into a patent cross-license agreement to further the development of the companies' current and future product lines.
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Microsoft has agreed to comply with the European Commission's 2004 anti-monopoly ruling against it, Brussels says.
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Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates signed a cooperation agreement with UNESCO on Wednesday to improve access to computers, the Internet and information technology training in developing countries.
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Microsoft and Citrix have signed a new five-year collaboration and licensing agreement. The agreement formalizes Citrixâs access to Microsoft Windows Server code and allows for patent cross-licensing between Microsoft and Citrix.