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Microsoft Vista may have its fair share of detractors, including some of Microsoft's closest allies in the past, but the Redmond giant seems determined to increase its acceptability among PC users by ...

According to John Matusow’s blog post, the Redmond Giant has admitted dishonest practices in process of standardization of Office Open XML format.

They have also announced the plans to abandon the format in favor of - recently known as competing - ODF format.

johnno writes "In an interview with the Australian site pc world Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation's executive director, talks about the desire to interoperate with Microsoft and discusses the desktop outlook for Linux.

He answers questions on the kind of legal protection Linux requires, whether anything ever come of the Microsoft protest that there's Linux code that they have patented, as well as Linux penetration on desktops and breaking Microsoft's stranglehold on the market.