Lindows.com and Microsoft today announced that the two companies have reached a worldwide settlement in the trademark-infringement cases between the two companies. "This case was centered on the fundamentals of international trademark law and our necessary efforts to protect the Windows trademark ag...
Through a partnership with Questar, a PC distributor, Dell has introduced a line of Linux-based desktop computers in Europe. Each computer will be shipped by Dell and preinstalled with the English or Italian version of the Linspire 4.5 Linux-based operating system. Each PC will include Dell's gold t...
Lindows has announced the release of a package containing the latest versions of three popular Linux operating systems. Linspire, Fedora and Mandrake are in the bundle, which has been named the Desktop Linux Comparison Kit. According to Lindows, the three systems were chosen on the basis of their pr...
Microsoft's most recent attempt to push the Lindows name out of the marketplace has been thrown out of a Netherlands court. Microsoft had argued that despite the Lindows company changing its product name outside the US to "Linspire", the Microsoft trademark was still violated by the fact that the co...
Was the term "windows" used in the computing world before Microsoft's Windows operating system first hit the scene in 1985? A U.S. Court of Appeals ruled this week that Microsoft will not be able to make that case to the judge in the Microsoft-Lindows trademark conflict before trial, which now will ...
Microsoft's trademark infringement case against Lindows will go to trial after a federal appeals court denied the world's largest software maker's appeal. Microsoft had filed an appeal earlier this year, just before both parties were to meet in the courtroom, over whether the word "windows" can be c...
CRM software provider salesforce.com priced its initial public offering Tuesday, saying it will raise about $80 million with the IPO. The company told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it expects to sell about 10 million shares, or 10 percent of the overall company, for between $7.50 ...
Microsoft this week released a portion of its source code through an open-source license, posting the code on SourceForge, an online source-code repository, in its most high-profile code disclosure ever. The move is designed to help the company improve the toolset's documentation and to allow the op...
Microsoft's attack against Linux desktop software provider Lindows.com has taken yet another turn, with Lindows' legal counsel filing a motion Monday in U.S. Federal Court seeking to stop the flood of global trademark lawsuits Microsoft has launched in a host of foreign countries over the last sever...
In their ongoing, worldwide tit-for-tat battle over a name, Windows maker Microsoft and Linux desktop player Lindows have been in courtrooms in a handful of nations, with a U.S. case set to begin later this month. In the latest chapter of the ongoing saga -- which Microsoft depicts as an abuse of it...
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