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Anxious Foresight

Eagle-eyed Redmond Media Group Online Editor Kurt Mackie found something interesting from a close look at the 10-K document Microsoft recently filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission. Mackie wrote an in-depth piece detailing Microsoft's assessment of the threat it faces from open source. Check it out here.

Posted by Scott Bekker on August 06, 2008


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