Microsoft admits: Linux biggest threat to WinblowsHere we have it! Finally Microsoft admits that Linux is the biggest threat to its Windows operating system! Well, almost…just not that directly.

The truth being they are more trouble than they are worth. Ever since the State Street case set off a gold rush to patent software, and software concepts, Microsoft has been tieing itself in knots. (Here is a fun game. Invite your favorite Microsoft employee to lunch and then show up in this snazzy t-shirt from Zazzle.com. Inspiration for Insanity indeed.)

Vicinity Corporation and Matt Hopkins make another strong link between Microsoft and Net Applications, whose data it admits to be flawed

Why GNU/Linux is by all means Microsoft's #1 competitor, as Microsoft admits repeatedly

A bunch of news about patents, including an invaluable admission from one Microsoft attorney that mathematics ought not to be patentable

Instead of ignoring open source conferences, Microsoft continues to invade them. The latest example: John Frederiksen (pictured), general manager of Microsoft’s Response Point business, is scheduled to speak at Digium AsteriskWorld on February 3. Why is Microsoft paying such close attention to an event for open source IP PBX advocates? The answer is obvious.

Microsoft acknowledges that Novell may already be used to bypass its GPL 'allergy'

Microsoft back into its walled gardens after bribing, cheating, stuffing ballots, and lying to everyone for the sake of hurting document standards (ODF)

Microsoft admits that the problem is real. Mark Wodrich and Jonathan Ness, part of the MSRC (Microsoft Security Response Center) engineering team wrote that an experimental exploit is already out and that it can fain "complete control of the targeted system and can be launched by an unauthenticated user." Just what you didn't need.