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Microsoft Buys into Corel

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the phear-the-widening-monopoly dept.

Geek Boy writes: "Yahoo is one of the many sites with the story that Microsoft has purchased 24 million non-voting shares of Corel!" So now Microsoft has Word, and a big stake in Word Perfect. Hedging your bets ain't bad, course what will this mean for the Corel Office for Linux suite? And while they are non-voting shares, this looks like a huge percentage of Corel.

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  1. Irony for the WINE project anyone? by cxreg · · Score: 5

    Doesn't this mean that Microsoft is now paying other people to reverse engineer its own API? What a bizarre world we live in...

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    God Fucking Damnit