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Microsoft has gone back to court to contest an earlier decision allowing operating system manufacturer Lindows.com to continue trading with a name that closely resembles the software giant's own Windows product.

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Microsoft Corp. was close to sharing a key programming tool after learning that Palm Inc. was participating in the antitrust case against the software giant, an executive from the No. 1 handheld computer maker told federal court on Thursday

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A Novell executive once offered to help Microsoft fend off the government's antitrust case if Microsoft would help Novell's networking software work better with the Windows operating system, a federal court heard on Thursday.

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To achieve the long-elusive goal of easily finding information hidden in computer files, Microsoft is returning to a decade-old idea.

The company is building new file organization software that will begin to form the underpinnings of the next major version of its Windows operating system. The complex data software is meant to address a conundrum as old as the computer industry itself: how to quickly find and work with a piece of information, no matter what its format, from any location.

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Thanks Atreyu for this one:

Sun Microsystems Inc. sued rival Microsoft for more than $1 billion Friday because the software giant made the Windows XP operating system incompatible with Sun’s Java programming language.

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Microsoft and the U.S. government pitch their antitrust settlement to a federal judge on Wednesday, hoping to get her endorsement despite objections from nine states seeking harsher sanctions against the company.

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the software giant would have to withdraw the Windows operating system from the market if a federal court approves sanctions being sought by nine of the states in the antitrust case, according to depositions released Monday.

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The rift between IBM and Microsoft over Web services widened further over the weekend when Web services evangelists from each company clashed over the relative merits of .Net and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) for building applications that can talk to each other over the Internet.

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