Microsoft compromises, prepares to offer player-free OS
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Microsoft was expected to show up at a closed-door hearing before Europe&#39;s Court of First Instance in Luxembourg today to push for suspension of an order requiring
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By Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 19--Jim Hall of St. Paul had a simple idea: Create a free equivalent of MS-DOS, Microsoft's original computer operating system, that anyone could use or modify, for any purpose, with no risk of getting sued by Bill Gates and Co.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Microsoft says if a judge won&#39;t suspend a European Union antitrust ruling, the company is ready to put a stripped-down version of Windows on the market.
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LONDON, September 27  - Microsoft Corporation (MSFT.NAS) is ready to remove the Media Player component from its Windows operating systems for the European markets, if the upcoming court decision upholds the landmark EU antitrust ruling
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InfoWorld - Microsoft is offering a new subscription model to small businesses that will allow them to use the company's software for less cost than the currently available licensing model.
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Despite pleas from fair-use advocates, Microsoft plans to patch an application that can strip Windows Media files of potentially restrictive DRM (digital rights management) technology.
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Microsoft Corp. said Monday it is ready to put a stripped-down version of Windows on the market if it fails this week to persuade a judge to suspend a landmark European Union antitrust decision.
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Microsoft Corp. on Friday said it will sacrifice some key advances it had planned for Longhorn so it can deliver the successor to Windows XP in 2006.
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The European Commission, the antitrust arm of the European Union, has ordered Microsoft to offer a version of Windows without a bundled media player and to disclose more technical information to its rivals on a temporary, or interim, basis until the
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As Todd Bishop notes today, Microsoft isn&#39;t known for snazzy product names. But it may have scored a cheeky coup with the name chosen for the Media Player-free version of its OS that it&#39;s been ordered to offer in Europe: Windows XP Reduced Media Edition.
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Microsoft and the OLPC are working on a laptop that would be capable of running Windows and Linux, but it's not a dual-boot system. Sort of.
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Microsoft Corp. officials said Monday that the company has spent millions of dollars preparing a version of its Windows operating system without a program for playing digital music and videos, in the event it loses its bid to postpone antitrust sanctions ordered by European authorities. -The Washington Post
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Supporters of the free PC operating system Linux are preparing to counter a recent Microsoft Corp.  deal which established for the first time the principle of paying the software giant to use Linux.
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Microsoft Corp. unveiled the latest version of its entertainment-focused operating system Tuesday, seeking a broader audience on a wider array of computers and stoked by partnerships offering music, movies and even recorded books.
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A fresh version of a program designed to circumvent Microsoft's Windows Media DRM was released on Friday, but the company's saying they're not concerned.
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Microsoft makes a more concerted move into the living room with a freshened version of its entertainment-oriented operating system.
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PC Magazine - Linux supporters are preparing to counter a recent deal penned by Microsoft which establishes the principle of paying the software giant for the OS, whose license requires it to be free.