News about banks, Microsoft, Paul Allen's voyages, and Microsoft's funding of the US president

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The arrangement between the Australian Government and Microsoft is revealed and the already-exposed BECTA does "damage control"

In Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, columnist Holman Jenkins, Jr asks if "Steve Ballmer is a failed CEO?" then forecasts Microsoft's feeble future even as it banks record profits. Microsoft is a company stuck in the glory years of the 1980s and 1990s - truly glorious years for a company that built not one but two massive cash cows: Windows and Office.

The Romanian government is about to spend almost half a billion of Euro on non-free software. The announcement of this deal was just a few days before the Free Software conference eLiberatica in Bucharest.

According to sources, Barclays saved 90 percent of its IT budget by avoiding products from Microsoft, Google, Oracle and SAP. Barclays often leads the way in technology adoption among the high street banks.

As Microsoft's earnings fall by a third (again), the reasons are being further analysed and Microsoft investors warned

A couple of days ago we included a link to this exploration of Douglas Goodyear and that connection to Microsoft. We have also been exploring Microsoft’s use of the United States government to push software patents into the European Union.

We previously pointed out, backed by fairly extensive evidence, that Microsoft has a high level of influence and control over the government, especially the Department of Injustice [sic]. Intel is a similar story that is related to that of Microsoft.