Microsoft's arrogance is spinning out of control as it insults its own customers.

Free software supporters in India fight against another attempt to legalise software patents

The trolling in the US continues, Microsoft's partners in India want software patents, Europe softens too.

Political parties in the country embrace FOSS, but Microsoft carries on with EDGI, gifts, and dumping of software

Microsoft's decision last week to let everyone snoop through its software secrets means vulnerabilities and exploits will almost certainly climb in the short term, security researchers said today.

Microsoft partners think it's great that the vendor has been aggressively battling software piracy. But some partners say the task of ensuring that their clients are in compliance with Microsoft's Byzantine software licensing structure is steadily growing more difficult.

Poor Microsoft complains about a "mainframe monopoly" which does not run Microsoft Windows and the same strategies it used in Europe are being extended to India

Protests against Microsoft in India; Another concern is, based on previous incidents, that Microsoft will try to hire people there or advocate what it calls "hybrid" model.

In this interview, Microsoft India Chairman talks about Software Piracy (we call that sharing) in India and why it's bad, why "Intellectual Property Rights" are important. The contrast in thoughts of the Free Software community about the same issues is particularly interesting to note.