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Microsoft's unique innovation

Microsoft invents lots of technology, but it has a certain understanding of the nature of the marketplace that is the source of much innovation at Microsoft, and which open source will have a hard time matching.

October 6, 2005 by John Carroll

Hatch probe into Microsoft will convene on Thursday

The Senate Judiciary Committee probe into software competition will convene next Thursday.A final list of invitees was not immediately available.

July 15, 1998 by Charles Cooper

Hatch again takes aim at MS

On the same day as Microsoft Corp. CEO Bill Gates shared a stage with other high-tech executives in a "rally' to protest government antitrust action against the company, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch took to the Senate floor to lambaste Microsoft once more.

May 4, 1998 by Maria Seminerio

Microsoft to Enter SaaS

The blogosphere is on fire with the anticipated announcement that Microsoft will be entering the Software as a Service (SaaS) market this or next week. Just how they’ll enter the market is still uncertain.

March 2, 2008 by Dave Greenfield

How Microsoft thinks about innovation these days (in five slides)

Microsoft has overhauled its innovation pipeline from both a technology and process standpoint. Here are five slides that explain some of the changes made.

August 11, 2011 by Mary Jo Foley

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Steve Ballmer talks heroes and innovation

In an interview with News.com's Ina Fried the Microsoft chief executive talked about where Microsoft's new server products as well as relations with Brussels.

February 27, 2008 by ZDNet Staff

Is the OpenDocument Format strategically better for the disabled? Maybe.

At a hearing on Monday, Oct 31, 2005, a Massachusetts state Senate oversight committee began what could best be referred to as a process of discovery to determine, amongst other things, whether the Commonwealth's Information Technology Division's (ITD) decision to standardize on the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as the standard file format in which the state must save certain public documents may have overlooked two significant drawbacks to the XML-based technology.

November 2, 2005 by David Berlind

Senate sniffs around Microsoft

WASHINGTON -- A leading U.S. senator questioned the impact of Microsoft Corp.

November 4, 1997 by Maria Seminerio

Microsoft to grow through battle, uh innovation

Microsoft held its meeting for financial analysts last week where it described the nuts and bolts of what it is doing for the next year.

August 6, 2004 by Chris Jablonski

Day 41, Thursday, Jan. 21

Hits: Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson scored a few hits today -- quizzing MIT prof Richard Schmalensee on the merits of his the-OS-monopoly-isn't-relevant theory. End result?

January 26, 1999 by ZDNet Editors