Social-networking Web site Bebo to use Microsoft IM technology
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| Bebo members will be able to click a link to start an IM session with any
| other Bebo member, even if neither has a Windows Live ID, the sign-on used
| for Hotmail and other Microsoft services.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/328515_msftbebo22.html
Integration of the Web and the /Windows/ desktop (Microsoft ecosystem). That's
what a lot of Vista and the new ECMA BS is all about. HD/XAML/OOXML/XPS...
Nokia offers Windows Live services on handsets
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| Beginning next year, Nokia also will install the same applications on its
| Series 40 phones in those countries as well as others that will be announced
| later, Holden said. He could not say when the Windows Live services would be
| available on handsets in the U.S.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070823/tc_infoworld/91273
According to a comment in Groklaw and something that someone from Finland told
me, Nokia's relationship with Microsoft (extending to DRM) might also affect
their vote on OOXML. Exchange of favours rather than technical assessment?
Related:
ECIS Accuses Microsoft of Plotting HTML Hijack
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| An industry coalition that has represented competitors of Microsoft
| in European markets before the European Commission stepped up its
| public relations offensive this morning, this time accusing
| Microsoft of scheming to upset HTML's place in the fabric of
| the Internet with XAML, an XML-based layout lexicon forn
| etwork applications.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/ECIS_Accuses_Microsoft_of_Plotting_HTML_Hijack/1169824569
Software rivals say Microsoft's Vista illegal in Europe (at CNNMoney.com)
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| Software manufacturers, citing 2004 European Commission finding,
| contend the operating system violates server laws in Europe.
|
| [...]
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| "Vista is the first step of Microsoft's strategy to extend its market
| dominance to the Internet," the ECIS statement said.
|
| It said Microsoft's XAML markup language was "positioned to replace HTML,"
| the industry standard for publishing documents on the Internet.
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| Microsoft's own language would be dependent on Windows, and discriminatory
| against rival systems such as Linux, the group says.
|
| They said a so-called "open XML" platform file format, known as OOXML, is
| designed to run seamlessly only on the Microsoft Office platform.
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/26/news/international/bc.vista.microsoft.eu.reut/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
Microsoft's 'Everywhere' excludes Linux
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| This browser add-on enables rendering of WPF content, but
| "Everywhere" doesn't include Linux.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7794/53/
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