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Plurk , a popular microblogging service in Asia, particularly Taiwan and the Philippines, is accusing Microsoft of plagiarizing the design and programming code of its Web site.
Microsoft and Google have built Web applications designed to highlight environmental problems coinciding with the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen that run through Friday.
Microsoft offers a Knowledge Base article that deals with an error message specifically.
Microsoft has fixed a problem in Office 2003 that prevented the software from opening documents saved using its access control technology.
Microblogging service Plurk says a service Microsoft recently launched in China "rips off" its user interface as well as 80 percent of the underlying code.
Microsoft on Saturday fixed a bug that locked out Office 2003 users from accessing documents safeguarded with the company's rights-management security technology.
Readers davidlougheed and TSHTF both let us know that microblogging service Plurk reported today that Microsoft China not only copied look and feel from its interface, but also copied raw code from Plurk's service, when it released its own microblogging service called MSN Juku (or Mclub). In instances of the code released on the Plurk blog, the layout, code structure, and variable names were ...
Micro-blogging service Plurk claimed that its site design and underlying code were copied by a recently debuted service from Microsoft's China division.
Lieberman Software today announced integration of its flagship privileged identity management solution, Enterprise Random Password Manager (ERPM), with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to give enterprises the ability to automatically discover and secure all privileged identities present on SharePoint Server sites.
Plurk, a microblogging site based in Taiwan, has accused Microsoft of stealing its code and design. A Plurk company blog posting today said: "Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but blatant theft of code, design, and UI elements is just not cool, especially when the infringing party is the biggest software company in the world.
Patch Tuesday will address a vulnerability in Internet Explorer severe enough that Microsoft considered an out-of-band patch. Microsoft's Patch Tuesday also addresses a Windows Server 2008 flaw that could be disruptive and a Project 2000 problem.
This morning, we got news that Microsoft had unequivocally ripped off design and code from marginally successful microblogging service Plurk . Now, we're seeing reports - and seeing for ourselves on the Microsoft website - that the knockoff site has been unceremoniously ganked from the tubes. Did a major corporation get caught red-handed stealing intellectual property from a startup? tweetmeme ...
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Early this morning we wrote about what appears to be a blatant rip off of Plurk by Microsoft China . Microsoft's Juku product looks almost exactly like Plurk, and the code appears to almost identical. Now, more than twelve hours later, Microsoft still has no real response to the situation. It was the middle of the night in China when the story broke, and Microsoft says that they are just now ...
Earlier today the pitchforks and burning embers came out in full force on the allegations that Microsoft China had blatantly ripped off code and design from Canadian based social network Plurk. Duncan wrote about the whole mess earlier here at The Inquisitr and now we finally have a response from Microsoft beyond their typical “we’re looking into the [...]
Computerworld - Plurk, a micro-blogging service popular in parts of Asia, claimed today that its site design and underlying code were copied by a recently debuted service from Microsoft Corp.'s China division.
Kanye West, Kate Gosselin and Michael Jackson were among the top trending topics on Twitter in 2009, but Microsoft and other tech brands dominated the blogosphere, per Zeta Interactive.
Software giant Microsoft has long punished legitimate users in an effort to stop the piracy of its software, but apparently Microsoft now thinks it’s ok to steal….at least when they do it. Microblogging service Plurk, which has become Asia’s most popular microblogging platform is pissed, and rightly so, because Microsoft not only copied their look for [...]
Nic H tells us that this is how his Xbox was returned after being sent to Nurse Microsoft. If that's really true, then it looks like Microsoft is getting brutal on Xboxes that dare get an RRoD. ...
bhagwad writes "The Delhi High Court has found Microsoft guilty of using money and influence to make it expensive to defend against piracy cases. According to the judge, 'When the constitution of India provides equality before law, this equality has to be all pervasive and cannot be allowed to be diluted because of money power or lobbying power.' Furthermore, the judge said that Microsoft had to ...
Opalis to add virtual environment monitoring to System Center suite Moving to strengthen its management tools related to virtual environments, Microsoft said that it has purchased IT process automation vendor Opalis for an undisclosed sum.
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