ORLANDO, Fla.--Tired of playing second fiddle in Web hosting, Microsoft is revamping its server software in an attempt to snatch market share away from the popular Apache-Linux combination. When the ...

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Microsoft inched closer to open source with a couple of announcements made last week at the OSCON open source conference in Portland, Ore. The company will become a platinum sponsor of the Apache ...

After almost two decades of trailing the market leader, Microsoft’s Web server software is coming close to rivaling the dominance of the Apache Web server, according to the latest Netcraft survey of ...

Microsoft can no longer pretend that even its best customers live in a homogeneous world. Nearly all must deal with Apache servers -- the latest Netcraft survey shows Apache with 49% of the market, ...

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Microsoft this week disclosed some collaborative efforts that will help Java applications read Microsoft Office file formats. The company is working with Sourcesense, a European open source systems ...

Microsoft has contributed source code to Apache's Stonehenge project, an open source effort that collects sample implementations of applications that are built with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) ...

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Microsoft inched closer to open source with a couple of announcements made last week at the OSCON open source conference in Portland, OR. The company will become a platinum sponsor of the Apache ...

After almost two decades of trailing the market leader, Microsoft’s Web server software is coming close to rivaling the dominance of the Apache Web server, according to the latest Netcraft survey of ...

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