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

An update for the proprietary Skype VoIP client resolves video image display issues among other problems.

A controversial patch for the imminent kernel 2.6.25 is causing much debate in the developer community: in a similar move to one he made two years ago, the well-known kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has submitted a patch that prevents closed source USB drivers from using the kernel's USB driver API.

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.

In a keynote given at the world-wide release party, streamed online, Project Lead Aaron Seigo introduced the new version of KDE.

Security experts are advising users to update to the latest version of the Web-based Horde groupware, which was released just a few days ago.

Eagerly anticipated, KDE 4.0.0 was officially released on Friday.

The ODF-XSLT project has released the first public version of its PHP software which processes Open Document Format (ODF) files.

The makers of Asterisk, the Open Source phone system, have removed a bug that allowed denial of service attacks under certain circumstances.