Microsoft Corp. will pay US$60 million for violating a patent held by a division of SPX Corp., a Charlotte, N.C.-based manufacturing and technology company, SPX said in a statement released last week.
Microsoft Corp. has confirmed that a forthcoming release of the Windows operating system code-named Longhorn will be intended for desktops only and will not have a corresponding server release like previously announced.
Microsoft Corp. recently announced that its Windows source-code sharing initiative is being extended to some 150 systems integrators in more than 30 countries.