Some months ago we highlighted what initially seems like Novell endorsement for Windows Vista. Novell is still quite Windows- and Microsoft-dependent.

Three new examples of Novell's marketing staff praising and helping to sell Microsoft's sequel to Windows Vista

Windows is promoted at the expense of Free software and Linux because Novell's Mono endeavours are increased and get a new name: "MonoDroid"

Novell appears to be (sort of) advertising Windows Vista at the very top of its monthly newsletter.

Novell and Mono, SourceForge and Windows, and other attempts to bend FOSS the Microsoft way.

Microsoft Corp plans to pay software maker Novell Inc up to $100 million in additional subscription fees due to strong demand for Novell's open-source Linux software that partners with Microsoft's proprietary Windows software.

Novell’s recent news about China [1, 2, 3] is pretty significant because this shows what tricks Microsoft and Novell hope to make more widespread and prevalent around the world, not just in Asia. It’s a symbolic start that illustrates just why Novell has become dangerous to GNU/Linux adoption (contrary to common belief).

Novell makes more evident what was obvious from the very start - that it puts Microsoft's interests ahead of anything else

An analysis of the role of Mono in Novell's GNU/Linux distribution and possible Microsoft motives