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Microsoft Kernel Engineers Talk About Windows 7's KernelMicrosoft Kernel Engineers Talk About Windows 7's Kernel posted by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Nov 2009 16:13 UTC Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference is currently under way, and as usual, the technical fellows at Microsoft gave... In this article: Microsoft, Kernel, Mark Russinovich, Windows Vista, and SQL |
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Computer World | October 07, 2009
Microsoft, Red Hat seal the deal on interoperability
...has a support deal with Novell and its Suse Linux platform. In July, Microsoft shocked the industry by contributing virtualization device drivers to the Linux kernel. Microsoft's Mike Neil, general manager of Windows Server and server...
In this article: Red Hat, Windows Server 2008, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Hyper-V, Mike Neil, Citrix, Novell, and Corporate development
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PC World: Latest Technology News | November 11, 2009
Open Source Software Ready for Big Business
...its first open source code to the Linux kernel in the form of virtualization drivers. But the company turned around and angered the open source community when it tried to sell off some Linux-related patents only to be intercepted by Open...
In this article: Google, Eucalyptus Systems, Cloudera, Linux, Hadoop, Amazon, Reductive Labs, and Salesforce.com
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Microsoft stuns Linux world, submits source code for kernel
...development model and the Linux GPLv2 licensing. Virtualization, cloud underlie Microsoft's Linux kernel submissionMicrosoft's Linux kernel submission raises virtualization questions Microsoft said the move will foster more open source...
In this article: Linux Foundation, Linux kernel, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Jim Zemlin, Hyper-V, Novell, and Windows Server 2008
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CNET News.com | September 21, 2009
Linus Torvalds: 'Linux is bloated'
...is bloated." While the open-source community has long pointed the finger at Microsoft's Windows as bloated, it appears that with success has come added heft, heft that makes Linux "huge and scary now," according to Torvalds. No. Of course...
In this article: Linux Foundation, Linus Torvalds, CNET, Jim Zemlin, Linux kernel, Twitter, and Cisco
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Engineer: Microsoft Violated GPL Before Linux Code Release
Engineer: Microsoft Violated GPL Before Linux Code Release Code that Microsoft released Monday for the Linux kernel under the General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) was in violation of that license before Microsoft made it available,...
In this article: GPL, Linux, Vyatta, Hyper-V, Linux kernel, Novell, and Windows Server 2008
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Yahoo! News | September 08, 2009
Open Source Group Buys Microsoft Patents to Ward Off Patent Trolls (PC World)
...for being too close to the Windows trademark. Earlier this year, Microsoft reached a settlement in a suit against GPS-maker Tom Tom for code which is actually part of the Linux kernel. This purchase is an opportunity for OIN to continue...
In this article: Linux, Open Invention Network, Trademark, Microsoft Word, Linux kernel, Redhat, and Yahoo
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Linux driver chief calls out Microsoft over its driver code submission
...process. Microsoft's submission includes 20,000 lines of code that once added to the Linux kernel will provide the hooks for any distribution of Linux to run on Windows Server 2008 and its Hyper-V hypervisor technology. The submission...
In this article: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux, Hyper-V, Linux kernel, Windows Server 2008, Rum, Competitive advantage, and IDC
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OSNews | February 05, 2008
Microsoft Junks and Replaces Vista Kernel in SP1
Microsoft Junks and Replaces Vista Kernel in SP1 posted by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th Feb 2008 20:16 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne "One of the 'big'� features discussed in early speculation of Windows Vista SP1 was the kernel upgrade, which was...
In this article: Kernel and Windows Server 2008
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, ) is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its most profitable products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software.
The company was founded in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Windows line of operating systems. Many of its products have achieved near-ubiquity in the desktop computer market. One commentator notes that Microsoft's original mission was "a computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software." Microsoft possesses footholds in other markets, with assets such as the MSNBC cable television network, the MSN Internet portal, and the Microsoft Encarta multimedia encyclopedia. The company also markets both computer hardware products such as the Microsoft mouse as well as home entertainment products such as the Xbox, Xbox 360, Zune and MSN TV. The company's initial public stock offering (IPO) was in 1986; the ensuing rise of the company's stock price has made four billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees.*
- Name:
- Microsoft Corporation
- Type:
- NASDAQ: MSFT
- Headquarters:
- Redmond, Washington
- Location:
- Redmond, Washington, United States
- Region:
- Worldwide
- Founder:
- Founded:
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Stock Symbol (NASDAQ):
- MSFT
- Industry:
- Consumer Electronics
- Computer software
- CEO:
- Steve Ballmer
- Products:
- Revenue:
- $60.420 billion (2008)
- Operating Income:
- $22.492 billion (2008)
- Net Income:
- $17.681 billion (2008)
- Assets:
- US$ 77.888 billion )
- Equity:
- US$ 39.558 billion
- No. of Employees:
- 89,809 in 105 countries (2008)
- Motto:
- Your potential. Our passion.
- Market Cap:
- US$ 169.72 billion
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