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Microsoft/Novell partnership marks two-year anniversary

Two years ago, Microsoft and Novell announced a partnership between SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Windows. At the time the announcement caused fumes from the ears of "opensourceilites" who had been understandably angry at Microsoft's anti-Linux marketing tactcs which consisted of claims of patent infringement and threats to sue. A lot has changed since then but the sky never fell. The reverse is true -- the partnership has been a success. In addition to bragging about the over 200 customers the partnership garnered in year No. 2, the companies announced today a release date for the upcoming Advanced Management Pack for SUSE Linux Enterprise for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 and launched  a beta version of Novell's Moonlight, the open source Linux version of Silverlight.

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  • Are Microsoft shareholders fed up? Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Thu, 11/20/2008

    Microsoft's annual shareholder's meeting occurred yesterday and given that the stock traded today at $17.50, its lowest point since 1998, you can imagine the tone among those that attended. Fed up might describe it, if this TechFlash blog post by a long-term shareholder is representative of the crowd. Michael McDonald bought 100,000 shares of MSFT in November, 2000, at a split-adjusted, average price of $36/share. (You read that right ... this cost him $3.6 million). This week he wrote:

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  • Microsoft to offer free PC security tool coming in '09 Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Tue, 11/18/2008

    Microsoft will be offering a free, stripped-down version of its Windows Live OneCare PC security tool, code-named "Morro," in the second half of 2009. Microsoft will also discontinue retail sales of its Windows Live OneCare subscription service effective June 30, 2009. Windows Live OneCare includes features that are not directly related to fighting malware, such as printer sharing. Morro will include only the security portion of OneCare, software that fights viruses, spyware, rootkits and trojans. Morro will be available as a stand-alone download to support Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Microsoft intends for the tool to be used with security settings in Windows and Internet Explorer, which it says will give users a fairly complete, free security setup.

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  • Microsoft makes SharePoint and Exchange cloud services available to all Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Mon, 11/17/2008

    Until today, only large companies could get SharePoint or Exchange as an online service available directly from Microsoft. Smaller customers could get hosted Exchange from numerous other suppliers (Intermedia, for example) and hosted SharePoint from numerous others (Apptix, for example) but not from Microsoft. That changed today as Redmond released multitenant versions of Exchange Online and SharePoint Online and took off the restrictions of who it would allow to buy them.

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