L'agenzia BRITANNICA Becta del calcolatore sta raccomandando le scuole di non firmare i contratti di licenza di brevetti con Microsoft a causa delle pratiche anticompetitive presunte.

… un portavoce per Becta ha detto che il problema era che Microsoft ha richiesto le scuole avere patenti per ogni pc in una scuola che potrebbe usare il relativo software, se realmente stavano facendo così o qualcos'altro funzionante.  Legga l'articolo completo sulle notizie di BBC (via Slashdot)

La richiesta di brevetto dalle parole di Microsoft. lo viene a mancare. Colto che cosa Wired.Com ha dovuto dire.

“…In all my years working as a journalist, I’ve never seen any technology company spin information the way Microsoft did today. The press release on OOXML ratification is a blueprint for spinning semantics, and the stringing together of truths and half-truths to seemingly make the outcome of one event something else altogether. Microsoft’s press release and statements contained therein are shocking. The amount of propaganda conveyed by this one press release is reason for Microsoft customers or partners to reflect on their dealings with the company.” Read the full article.

“…Seven states are pushing back against the Department of Justice’s assessment that the landmark antitrust settlement between the United States and Microsoft has removed the anticompetitive obstacles created by the software maker and resulted in more competition in the middleware market. In fact, according to attorneys for California, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, the commonwealth of Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, known as the “California Group” of plaintiffs, “Microsoft’s market power remains undiminished and … key provisions of the final judgment-those relating to middleware- have had little or no competitively significant impact.” Read the full article.