Proponents of the open source and proprietary software sectors have clashed over a proposal to support multiple standards for the country's e-government projects.

We saw this coming a long time ago, but now arrive the specifics. Microsoft’s former media partner, MS(NBC), which was criticised before due to biased reporting that favours the paymaster, turns out to be that who shall do the ‘dirty job’.

Okay, I'm not seriously suggesting Microsoft is paying off Netcraft to produce positive survey results (although this is certainly a standard operating procedure for Microsoft). But something is odd, if not rotten, in the state of Netcraft.

Following Microsoft's hijack of the main virtualisation options, Red Hat turns its back on Xen

Two days ago Microsoft issued a press release heralding its plans to take over universities with its Windows-oriented, Live-branded offerings, which typically lock down students and bind them to Microsoft while they still are young. For background about this, see this older post.

Microsoft has hit back at Opera antitrust claims regarding Internet Explorer, denying that it is abusing its dominant market position to lock users into the web browser.

Microsoft's "Open Source" mole is going back to Microsoft to become the CTO of CodePlex; Microsoft MVP Jason Hiner carries on with Microsoft boosting (without disclosure)

A look at how Microsoft responds to the Ukraine's desire for autonomy with Free software

Basically, they [(Microsoft)] move, we rant, they win. It's done through an interesting bit of social engineering that turns our anger at them and their antics into into a tool to turn away potential Linux and OSS converts and guide them back to the Microsoft sheep fold.