A deeper look at Melco's deal with Microsoft... IN some ways, the Melco sellout resembles the Brother Industries sellout. Microsoft blogger Mary Jo Foley wrote about this deal almost gleefully and also suggested that OEMs might be next to sign (i.e. sell out to Microsoft). Does she know anything that others do not? The short story as she tells it goes like this...

WE HAVE BEGUN working on some older Comes vs Microsoft exhibits and today we properly document Exhibit PX00891 (1991) [PDF]. It starts with Brad Silverberg, one of Microsoft's crudest people. At Microsoft, they were speaking about Digital Research, which they committed abuses against (see our DRI reference page). Here is part of the correspondence...

Bits from the press about Novell and virtualisation for the most part. MANY people may not remember this, but Ron Hovsepian admitted giving power to Microsoft in the datacentres. It was part of the deal that Novell should permit Windows to run as a host and SUSE usually be a guest.

Microsoft manages the press in order to hype up Office 2010 and it can be fined severely for AstroTurfing now that laws and enforcement are in place

As the cold war between the techno giants- Microsoft and Google continues the big shots are up with big comments. We caught up with Microsoft's founder speculations and round-up on Google Chrome OS. In an interview CNET, Bill Gates went head-on stating Google's Chrome OS looks a lot like a familiar foe: Linux.

ASUS uses prizes to generate buzz for its products all across the blogosphere

New surveys of companies and CIOs show that Vista 7 is poorly received by businesses, even before arrival