Microsoft keeps dodging laws that are very controversial to begin with; Broadcom still on patent warpath

Self-proclaimed "journalist" who plants stories for Microsoft has made transactions with SCO

I have observed in several Linux related forums, a certain denial of reality by most Linux enthusiasts. They tend to have the notion that the demise of Microsoft is just around the corner and that Linux is about to have its time.

Now that Sam Ramji, Microsoft Corp.'s point man on open source software, is leaving the company at the end of the month, who will possibly fill his shoes and continue to lead Microsoft further into the world of open source collaboration.

LG has new Android phone but also a Linux patent deal with Microsoft

The Mono team brings the iPhone closer to Microsoft's turf; CodePlex Foundation analysed further

In preparation for the stupendous launch of Microsoft Windows %NEXT_VERSION% in October, Microsoft is organising a detailed word-of-mouth push.

Host your own Windows 7 launch party and play the Windows 7 Drinking Game!

Whenever I write about Microsoft here I usually get a few comments asking me, with varying degrees of politeness, why I am wasting electrons on this subject on a site devoted to GNU/Linux. The reason I do this – and why I am about to do it again – is that whether we like it or not, Microsoft remains probably the single most important external factor in the free software world.