Microsoft Signs Linux Patent Agreement With I-O Data

Microsoft has won another battle in the war against Linux, convincing watchmaker Casio that it needs to stump up for its use of the open source kernel in its various products.Despite indications that the Redmond company was...

Microsoft continued its campaign to bring down rival Google's Android mobile operating system yesterday, launching a law suit against US bookseller Barnes & Noble, whose Nook e-book reader uses the OS. The software giant...

Amazon and Microsoft have just entered into a cross-licensing patent agreement which would enable both the companies to access each other’s portfolio; the deal encompasses a wide array of products and technologies. The...

Software giant Microsoft has issued a new patent covenant in which the company has pledged not to sue the users of third party distributions of the Moonlight 2 plug-in which will allow users to access videos, applications and...

A body formed by technology companies seeking to defend open source software against patent attacks has bought 22 patents until recently owned by proprietary software giant Microsoft. The Open Invention Network (OIN) is funded by...

In a move aimed at defending distributors of open source Linux operating system from patent litigation, a group of Linux proponents under the umbrella organization Open Invention Network (OIN) have bought a set of 22 patents...

The Linux-protecting intellectual property activist group Open Invention Network (OIN) has asked its members to help invalidate Microsoft-owned patents at the heart of a recently settled dispute.OIN has asked the public to find...

Navigation device maker TomTom has agreed to make patent payouts to Microsoft for five years, settling a lawsuit brought against it by the software giant. TomTom said that the settlement does not break any licence terms for the...

A navigation device company that is being sued by Microsoft in a patent dispute has joined the Open Innovation Network, a collection of companies that pools its Linux-related patents to defend against legal action.Linux is an...

In an aggressive stance that seems to take on the open source Linux components for the first time, Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against the personal navigation device manufacturer TomTom over the charges of patent...

Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against navigation device maker TomTom, claiming that its technology infringes Microsoft-owned patents. Some of the alleged infringement is a result of TomTom's use of Linux technology, Microsoft...

Microsoft has decided to fund the Apache software foundation that is responsible for open source projects like PHP, Linux and MySQL Microsoft has long been considered to be against Open Source software, but recently, it has...

Alfresco Software, Inc. announced the immediate availability of its first-ever global survey of trends in the use of open source software in the enterprise.The Alfresco open source barometer survey, conducted April through June...

UPDATED: Microsoft has renewed its assault on open source software with a claim that open source operating systems violate over 200 of its patents. The claim joins a long list of Microsoft anti-open source patent claims.Microsoft...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that every user of the open source Linux system could owe his company money for using its intellectual property. The statement will confirm the worst fears of the open source...