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European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, fresh off her antitrust victory over Microsoft in the European Court of First Instance, has launched two new investigations into anticompetitive behavior by Microsoft:
Microsoft’s Office Communications Server 2007 RTMed in July, but today was the gala launch event in San Francisco complete with an appearance by Bill Gates who also unburdened himself of an executive email to underscore the importance of the unified communications business to Microsoft. Here’s the full product menu from the press release:
It’s been little known outside the enterprise software market that IBM has been offering variants of open source Open Office desk top software as part of their Lotus Notes email and collaboration package for several years. Today they went a step further in offering them as a free standalone package called Lotus Symphony as IBM’s Ed Brill explains:
Everyone enjoys a good strategy presentation, so I recommend for your delectation the “Sun Microsystems New Corporate Strategy” slide revealed by Fake Steve Jobs to explain this week’s announcement that Sun is now a Windows Server OEM. Similarly revealing is the note FSJ supposedly received from Jonathan Schwartz describing the double secret plan involving IBM that is behind it all.
