A look at the existing threats to FOSS, courtesy of Microsoft and/or its potential proxies.

Microsoft Corp. will soon be free of a U.S. court decree imposed for anti-competitive behavior, just in time for a showdown with Google Inc. and others seeking domination in the ever-changing software industry.

Newspapers and news sites take instructions from Microsoft proxies

What?!?! Using Windows Vapourware™ (7) as an anti-competitive tool against next-generation threats such as Google? Microsoft got plans!

More software adds ODF support; ODF disinformation comes from sources supportive of Microsoft or actually paid directly by Microsoft

The lobbyists from Association for Competitive Technology (Microsoft proxy) attempt to poison EU law

"In high-technology markets, disruptive innovation is something to be taken as a given, like gravity. Businesspeople do their best to exploit it, avoid it or cope with it. Industry upstarts depend on it, while established companies fear it. But no one in the competitive world of high technology thinks they can stop disruptive innovation, any more than they can alter the laws of gravity. But what if you could? What if an industry could banish disruptive innovation, leaving only a "well-mannered marketplace" of incremental innovations that reinforced comfortable business models?

Another timely reminder of Microsoft's anti-competitive behaviour and the toll it entails after proceedings at the court of law

Novell has boosted its legal team with one of America's top patent lawyers in what is building up to be a legal battle with Microsoft.