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The 18-Fold Trickle-Down Impact of Microsoft Windows

Bill Gates boasted about hardware innovation and platform opportunity at the 16th annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Los Angeles on Tuesday.For starters, Gates cited strong sales momentum and positive customer response to Windows Vista in its first 100 days. Then he unveiled the new name for the next Microsoft Windows platform release: Windows Server 2008, formerly code-named Longhorn. Gates also took the opportunity to showcase new technologies for businesses and consumers.

“A wave of great new hardware products from our partners has played a major role in the strong demand we’ve seen for Windows Vista,” Gates told the WinHEC audience in his keynote address. “Going forward, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 will provide a platform for hardware innovations that will deliver more intelligent and compelling computing experiences for consumers and business users, driving increased demand for a wide range of new PCs and new devices.”

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Sun Responds to Microsoft’s Patent Claims

Microsoft is targeting Sun Microsystems for patent violations in its open-source software, claiming OpenOffice.org breaches 45 of its patents. Sun wasted no time in responding to the claims coming out of Redmond.”You would be wise to listen to the customers you’re threatening to sue — they can leave you, especially if you give them motivation,” Sun’s President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote in his blog. “Remember, they wouldn’t be motivated unless your products were somehow missing the mark.” The open-source community, he added, is vastly more innovative and powerful than a single company.

Could the intent of Redmond’s callout be to broker licensing deals with free software developers? Or is the software giant bound to sue any infringing party it can find with deep enough pockets to make a court battle worth its while? Few analysts believe that Microsoft actually will file suit, but the company doesn’t seem to be planning to let alleged infringers have a free ride, either.

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