Business Briefs: September 15, 2008 A slew of acquisitions are made in the software development, search-engine, customer service and networking industries. Hewlett-Packard and Wind River release their quarterly fiscal reports.
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Microsoft's Plans for Post-Windows OS Revealed A componentized non-Windows operating system is in the works at Microsoft, one that could eventually phase out Windows. The OS features asynchronous-only architecture built for task concurrency.
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For Universities, Open Source Is Always an Elective Colleges have been known to use open-source software to save money and better fit the needs of its users. Not all institutions of higher learning have found open-source software to be universally useful, however.
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