Ballmer looks through the open source Window - MS-Dos finally wins reprieve - Compaq predicts sharp fall in profits
The unthinkable appeared to become thinkable when Microsoft president Steve Ballmer dropped a massive hint that Windows - or at least part of it - could become open source code. Ballmer said that...
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