Increasing proximity between Microsoft and Novell across publications this week

Microsoft is using Linux again, so what are the implications of such hypocrisy?

FOR A WINDOWS user, there is no decent place to turn. On the one hand there is Vista, which is detested even by some of the most avid fans of Windows; then there is Windows XP, which continues to have problems, the latest example being the following intriguing report

Is Microsoft a friend or foe of open source? Going by the company's actions, Microsoft can't seem to decide whether to make love or war. But if it's war, Microsoft appears to lack the legal weaponry to defeat or even disturb its adversaries.

Novell has released a new product based on Mono 2.4, the SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension, which provides commercial support for running .NET applications on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

A COUPLE of weeks ago Novell added two people with Microsoft connections to its Board of Directors. So is Novell ready for the swap? One pundit thinks so.

Microsoft is going after negative coverage about its products; it eventually gets its way, too

To me, the simple interface is part of the netbook’s charm. I guess it boils down to personal preference and what you want the machine to do for you.