ODF support in Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 is a fail, fail, fail, and fail

How Microsoft is trying to marginalise GNU/Linux and the extent to which demoralising lies are used as a tool

Mono/.NET enthusiasts start pushing Novell's Banshee into the next Ubuntu
AS NOTED two posts ago, Microsoft is - in essence - paying the wages of a lot of Novell developers. What is the return on this Microsoft investment? Microsoft is neither a charity nor a promoter of GNU/Linux.

THURSDAY was a very important day. Glyn Moody called it "A Day to Remember" and not just because of the release of Ubuntu 9.04. As we explained before [1, 2, 3], Microsoft reported a huge drop in earnings which shows, as Moody puts it, that "the Microsoft money machine is faltering." This is not particularly shocking.

LAST YEAR we mentioned Microsoft's "Jihad" talk (the term it uses a lot internally, even Bill Gates). The Microsoft ecosystem is said to be working very closely together and some call it "the Microsoft movement" (a term which is usually used in private conversations). Others even call it a/the "Microsoft religion", so the following new post hit a certain nerve.

"Microsoft is actually paying for using Windows [...] Asus speaker confirmed this in Germany," says an informant

"A proposal for extending copyright protection for sound recordings in EU member states to 70 years passed the European Parliament today..."

Paying several times for the same competition-intolerant software