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A Little Chat With Microsoft On Open Source Platform Strategy

Dec 11, 2008
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[From InformationWeek Blogs]

Yesterday I headed into Manhattan to meet with folks from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s Platform Strategy group, another major division of Microsoft slowly edging the company away from behemoth-dom and towards fairer play for both proprietary and open source. Slow but steady may well win this race.

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