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Microsoft opens door to open-source software community (AFP via Yahoo! News) - Microsoft is increasing the openness of its software to appease antitrust regulators and please businesses trending toward more diverse computer systems.

Microsoft Pledges To Open Up Some Software (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News) - Hoping to appease antitrust regulators in the European Union, Microsoft on Thursday said it would work to make its software products more interoperable with those of its competitors.

Microsoft cozies up to open-source software community (AFP via Yahoo! News) - Microsoft on Thursday announced it is increasing the openness of its software to make it easier for outside developers to customize applications for its products.

Microsoft to open up some key software blueprints (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it would make key technology elements of some of its best-selling software widely available to boost interoperability with its competitors and customers.

Planning software puts Vista on a handheld (TechWorld) - Aperture mobilises its datacentre planning tools. Aperture Technologies has mobilised its Vista datacentre planning and management software. It has taken a Motorola MC50 rugged PDA and added software to help admins inventory their IT gear and track datacentre resources such as electrical power.

Microsoft Pledges To Open Up Some Software (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! Finance) - Hoping to appease antitrust regulators in the European Union, Microsoft on Thursday said it would work to make its software products more...

Microsoft's software data disclosure may be unprecedented (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) - Trying to head off a European investigation of its business practices, Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it would release an unprecedented amount of information about how its core products interact with other software developers' programs.

Microsoft opening up some software, again (Market Watch) - Microsoft Corp. is really trying hard to open up its software blueprints, and it told reporters and analysts Thursday that even if it was not mandated by European regulators to do such a thing, it would have done so “on our own.”

Microsoft set to open up software (BBC News) - Microsoft is to open up the technology of some of its top software to make it easier to operate with rivals' products.

Applied Software Buys Software Provider (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Applied Software, which develops software for the architectural, engineering and construction industry, said Thursday it acquired the Atlanta-based operations of the software solutions group of Imaging Technologies, a unit of American Reprographics Co.