Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer confirms a new, predatory pricing scheme

There are several iffy new things about the sub-notebooks business, so we cover them here

"It's a very different marketplace, and having this very American, centralized view and trying to do things in the old way is not going to work," said Red Hat Vice President Michael Chen on opening up business opportunities for his company in China. "You need to have a longer-term strategy. Try to build your China strategy for five to 10 years."

How do you know when a country is ready to enter the legions of developed nations? When it’s ready to sue Microsoft. AFP reports that China is conducting an anti-monopoly investigation into giant Microsoft.

Gunter Ollman, Director of Security Strategy at IBM Internet Security Systems has come up with a, frankly, surprising conclusion that as far as the top ten software vendors contributing to vulnerability disclosure statistics are concerned, the trend is actually a downwards one.

The latest blowback from the OOXML adoption process emerged last Friday in Brasilia, Brazil.

It's no hoax: “They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.” -Bill Gates. WELL, what can we say? Like most such deals, it smacks of collusion or dumping, sometimes even bribes like Live@Edu, public looting, or even addiction techniques like the *Spark programmes.

India. China. Japan. Brazil. Munich, Germany. Russia. The list goes on. [...] The question? Try this: What are some of the nations of the world that have dumped Microsoft Windows in lieu of the Linux operating system?

From time to time, Dell does a poor job articulating its Ubuntu Linux strategy. But sources close to Dell and Canonical continue to insist the relationship remains healthy and "stronger than ever." Here's an update on Dell's Ubuntu strategy - which includes a dramatic Dell-Ubuntu PC push in China.