Microsoft expands program on source code
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US software giant Microsoft Corporation has expanded a program giving government organizations access to some of its tightly guarded software blueprints.
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The UK government is at the forefront of a Microsoft scheme allowing access to the Office 2003 source code. Microsoft is to extend a programme offering governments access to its software code, it announced on Sunday.
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Microsoft planned to announce Monday that it would give dozens of governments and international agencies access to the programming code in its Office desktop software, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and e-mail programs.
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The software maker expands its Visual Studio line of developer tools.
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FROM today, Microsoft is expanding a programme to give government organisations access to some of its tightly guarded software blueprints for the latest version of its Office software.
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In a bid to further differentiate itself from open source rivals, Microsoft Tuesday said it will expand its indemnification program to cover the vast majority of its customers.
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OPEN SOURCE champion Microsoft is expanding its programme to give government organisations some of its source code. In a communique from the lair of the Vole, in Redmond, spinsters have said that Microsoft
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Software giant expands its indemnification program to cover the majority of its customers.
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Gone are the days when free software could blithely ignore what was happening in the world of proprietary code.  The two approaches are now inextricably intertwined as more and more users and companies choose to run both.  One paradoxical consequence of this is that as free software becomes more widely deployed, Microsoft's impact on it becomes greater.  Against this background, a recent shift in Microsoft's public statements about open source assumes a particular importance.
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Microsoft will let governments access the computer code behind its Office software as part of a broader campaign to provide alternatives to open-source applications.
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Software maker expands its Windows-lite offerings.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Continuing its flirtation with open source, Microsoft Corp. on Monday posted the code of a little-known collaboration application to open-source development site SourceForge.net.
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In a bid to further differentiate itself from open-source rivals, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said it will expand its indemnification program to cover the vast majority of its customers. The move, experts said, is great marketing but will have little impact on users.
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Microsoft is broadening the availability of its source code by granting governments that participate in an offshoot of its shared source initiative access to the inner workings of its Microsoft Office 2003 productivity suite.
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Aiming to recruit more students to programming and to its set of tools, Microsoft plans to give away full versions of its Visual Studio and Expression development tools.
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I_Love_Pocky! writes &quot;According to this article, Microsoft is going to give its source code for Office 2003 to more than 30 different world governements.
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Microsoft released on Tuesday a preview version of new tools intended to make it easier for companies to create custom Web applications.