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Microsoft Corporation is an American software company, best known for its Microsoft Windows operating system, and Microsoft Office, office suite software. In recent years the company has diversed into Internet publishing and video game consoles, among other fields. The company was originally founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

Microsoft is listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker MSFT, and employs 76,539 people as of 2007. The company had revenues of over US $51.1 billion, and net income of more than US $14 billion as of 2007.

Historically, Microsoft has not always been popular with all sections of the open source community. This is partly for historical reasons, and partly because Microsoft is perceived by some as being opposed to the goals and values of the open source movement. Furthermore, some senior figures in the company have made some negative comments about open source generally, as well as the Linux operating system in particular - for example, Steve Ballmer once famously described the GPL as "a cancer", and the company has also made various made allegations about possible patent infringements in Linux.

Despite this, Microsoft has in fact engaged in some open source, activities. Microsoft has even shipped some software under the GPL (Microsoft Services for UNIX), and other software under the CPL (Windows Installer XML - "Wix"), which is an OSI approved open source license.

Microsoft's open source activities have largely been carried out as part of the company's "Shared Source" initiative. This initiative is an umbrella term encompassing a range of projects, including open sourcing some programs, making other programs' source code available for viewing-only under fairly restrictive licenses, and developing new copyright license agreements (some of which might eventually be certified as meeting the OSI's Open Source Definition, whereas others allow source code viewing but not editing, and only on restrictive terms).

  Summary
  Name: Microsoft Corporation
  Main Web Site: www.microsoft.com
  Founded: 1975
  Business: Computer software, Internet publishing, video games
  Traded On: NASDAQ
  Ticker: NASDAQ: MSFT
  Headquarters: Redmond, Washington
  Employees: 76,539 (2007)
  Revenue: US $51.14 billion (2007)

Here are the latest news stories concerning Microsoft and open source:

22 Jul Face Off: Windows vs Linux Real World RAM and Disk Tests
Categories: Firefox, Linux, Microsoft, OpenOffice, Sun
Source: OSNews
 
22 Jul Ext2 Ported to Microsoft's Singularity
Categories: Linux, Microsoft
Source: OSNews
 
19 Jul Our obstinance on Cuba is unfair to U.S. companies
Categories: Conferences, Linux, Microsoft
Source: Computerworld
 
 

17 Jul Windows Update Servers Score 100% Uptime
Categories: Apple, Linux, Microsoft, Ubuntu
Source: OSNews
 
17 Jul Can You Really Live Without Office?
Categories: Google, Microsoft, OpenOffice, Sun
Source: OSNews
 
14 Jul The Fall of Google, the Rebirth of Microsoft and the Changing Face of Apple and Linux
Categories: Apple, FSF, Google, Linux, Microsoft
Source: TechNewsWorld
 
8 Jul Bash vs Powershell
Categories: Linux, Microsoft
Source: OSNews
 
7 Jul Microsoft's Silverlight draws patent suit
Categories: Microsoft, Patents
Source: Computerworld
 
7 Jul Five Ways Microsoft Could Change After Gates
Categories: Microsoft
Source: OSNews
 
7 Jul Linux Bloggers Wax Skeptical on the Post-Gates World
Categories: Linux, Microsoft
Source: E-Commerce Times
 
6 Jul What's Holding OpenOffice Back?
Categories: Microsoft, OpenOffice, Sun
Source: LinuxInsider
 
5 Jul Red Hat Linux Beats Microsoft Windows in Power Test
Categories: Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat, SuSE
Source: OSNews
 
4 Jul 10 Changes Steve Ballmer Should Make at Microsoft
Categories: Microsoft
Source: OSNews
 
3 Jul Mac OS X Marketshare Surges 32% in One Year
Categories: Apple, Linux, Microsoft
Source: OSNews
 
1 Jul Unison™ Announces Pricing and Partner Program
Categories: Microsoft
Source: PRWeb
 
1 Jul ReactOS 0.3.5 Released
Categories: Microsoft, ReactOS
Source: OSNews
 
1 Jul Microsoft tactics push India toward Linux
Categories: Linux, Microsoft
Source: Linux-Watch.com
 
1 Jul Microsoft pushes India toward Linux
Categories: Linux, Microsoft
Source: DesktopLinux.com
 
30 Jun OOXML projects bolster Microsoft's interoperability efforts
Categories: Microsoft
Source: Computerworld
 
27 Jun My First Linux Desktop
Categories: Fedora, Linux, Microsoft, Red Hat
Source: OSNews
 
26 Jun Bevy of Browsers Give Firefox a Run for Its Money
Categories: Firefox, Microsoft
Source: LinuxInsider
 
26 Jun Dear Microsoft, Thanks for the Help, Linux
Categories: Apple, Linux, Microsoft
Source: OSNews
 
25 Jun Microsoft delivers delayed Mac Office file converters
Categories: Apple, Microsoft
Source: Computerworld
 
23 Jun My picks for Bill Gates's 5 dumbest moves
Categories: Linux, Microsoft
Source: Computerworld
 
20 Jun Apple does about-face, fixes Safari's 'carpet bomb' bug
Categories: Apple, Microsoft, Safari
Source: Computerworld




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