This should be interesting: Microsoft's general counsel, Brad Smith, is speaking -- and taking questions -- Tuesday afternoon at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco. Smith is expected to discuss topics including the similarities between the open-source and proprietary software models...

First Scoble writes about something so amazing from Microsoft it makes him cry and will be world changing. Then L ong Zheng spots the above page via an email pitch linking to opensourcehero that redirects here . What open source something will Microsoft forge on February 27 that will be world changing...

BMW AG and Siemens Corp. today became the latest customers to take advantage of the collaboration between Microsoft Corp. and Novell that enables IT interoperability in mixed-source environments. Under two separate agreements, Microsoft will deliver to BMW and Siemens each certificates for three-year...