10 Ways Google Is Trying To Kill Microsoft, Jul 27, 2009

Perhaps the most exciting tech battle to watch: Google's intensifying clash with fellow titan Microsoft, as the two square off in almost every major line of business.

Experts say Google's new operating system is designed to weaken Microsoft, but the OS battle may have just begun.

Google is jumping into Microsoft Windows territory -- and threatening to change the way personal computers work -- with its own version of a computer operating system.

True or False: Switching from a Windows-operated computer to a Linux-operated one could slash computer-generated e-waste levels by 50%: The answer is: TRUE

Some of the biggest names in computing are pushing harder for the Linux open-source operating system as an option for desktop PCs.

Dell Inc is developing consumer PCs that can run multiple versions of Microsoft Corp's Windows and Linux software at the same time, the personal computer maker's chief technology officer, Kevin Kettler, told Reuters.

Maybe it's time to seriously think of breaking up the company into smaller companies. The individual parts would flourish and benefit the stockholders to an extreme.

Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Fortune's Roger Parloff reports.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday asked Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to intercede on behalf of a Russian teacher accused of using pirated software in his classroom.

Looking for a cheap PC this holiday season? Good luck trying to find one with anything but Microsoft's Windows on it.

It's official: All mentions of Novell must now, once again, be preceded by the adjective "beleaguered."

Usually media shy, the 36-year-old Finn invited Kristie Lu Stout and the Global Office team into his home for an insight into life at the helm of the operating system that is giving Microsoft some serious headaches.

For years, Oracle and IBM have fought over bragging rights for the $8 billion database software market - a key technological battleground upon which sales of almost all other business software depend.

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South Korean antitrust regulators Wednesday ruled that Microsoft Corp. abused its market dominance, fined it 33 billion won ($32 million) and ordered the software giant to offer alternative versions of Windows.

The new software, called Asianux 2.0, will be introduced Thursday and was developed by Japan-based Miracle Linux Corp., China's Red Flag Software Co. and Haansoft Inc. of South Korea, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said.

Using the open sourcing philosophy, the students have published a recipe for beer on the Internet, available without charge and open to improvements.

PC makers and distributors are holding back from buying the new alternative version of Windows XP that Europe's competition commissioner ordered Microsoft Corp. to offer as part of the punishment in the software maker's long antitrust battle with the European Union.

Novell Inc. posted a quarterly profit Thursday as revenue rose, but the company warned that spending on information technology by companies remained weak.

Novell, a software developer that provides update services for Linux, reported a net profit of $23 million, or 6 cents per share, in the fiscal third quarter ended July, compared with a loss of $12 million, or 3 cents per share, a year earlier.

Excluding a one-time gain from a legal settlement, restructuring and other charges, Novell said it had a profit of $14 million, or 4 cents per share, double its adjusted profit from a year earlier.

Software company Lindows Inc. cut the price Friday of its planned initial public offering of 4.4 million shares to $7 to $9 each from a previous range of $9 to $11.

The company disclosed the price change in an amended offering document filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.