Google uses Wine to provide Linux support for Picasa; now the search engine giant has commissioned the specialists from Codeweavers to improve Wine support for Adobe Photoshop CS and CS2 .

The EU Commission is looking to investigate whether Microsoft illegally attempted to influence the standardization process for its own OOXML document format.

Microsoft has announced it wants to simplify access to technical documentation for older Office formats, and initiate an open-source project to replicate the binary formats in Open XML.

Microsoft developer Douglas Purdy reports of plans to create a clone of the Emacs editor for .Net.

Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba.

Version 1.1 of Sun Microsystems' ODF Plugin for Microsoft’s Office suite now includes a multi-language package. A new version of the OpenXML-ODF Translator is now available for downloading from Sourceforge.

Microsoft’s Network Access Protection Plattform (NAP) security function will be available for Linux and the Mac operating system via third party products.

Nigeria's Classmate PCs will not run on Mandriva Linux, but on Windows.

In the light of a ruling by the European Commission, Microsoft has now published revised license terms for interoperability.