Microsoft has long had a hate-hate relationship with open source—not only with specific open-source projects like Linux, but also with the concept of non-proprietary software.
Read more »Jim Allchin: “We Feel a Huge Threat from Linux” (Analysts Cartel Part IV)
Long transcripts show Microsoft's fear of GNU/Linux, among other issues and an IDC study
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Microsoft Enters Another Linux Conference, Changes to “Open Source” Agenda
Microsoft comes to LCA2009 and has Novell give it good coverage in Holland
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Why Microsoft Wants to Put .NET/Mono in Devices
Antitrust Exhibits: Why Microsoft Wants .NET (or Mono) Everywhere
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A Sound of Thunder
Windows hasn't been my desktop environment for about seven years now. I have found I have no need for it, a Linux desktop does everything I need to do very well... Yet Microsoft's recent announcements about "Windows 7", the new version of Windows, find me sitting here feeling I have no choice but to discuss it, or be drowned out as a hopelessly irrelevant columnist.
Read more »Novell Cozies Up to Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Office SharePoint gets a little lift from Novell's Access Manager 3.1
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Has Microsoft Just ‘Pulled an EDGI’ on 72,000 Schools?
Microsoft is dumping software on many schools in over 100 countries to battle competition
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"Horrors" of Ubuntu
A local news station covers a story about a woman who somehow accidentally bought a dell with Ubuntu on it, then was too dumb to get on the internet or figure out that OpenOffice does the same thing as Word.
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iTunes music files
RMS: « iTunes music files may contain no DRM, but they are poisonous. »
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Is UK Govmnt/Education Accepting Soft Bribes from MS Rather Than Adopt Free(dom) Software?
The promiscuous UK education sector is selling out to Microsoft (again) under bizarre circumstances
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Microsoft Chief: “Under NO Circumstances Lose Against Linux”
Another antitrust exhibit shows Microsoft viciousness and tactics against GNU/Linux
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Why Download 7apourware When the Real Thing (e.g. Ubuntu 8) is Free, Including Shipping?
The noise around "Windows 7" begged for attention from the GNU/Linux crowd
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Microsoft’s Internal Presentation on How to Fight GNU/Linux
Internal documents from Microsoft include a presentation on defeating GNU/Linux
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Survey: Novell Likely to be Acquired (by Microsoft?)
A new survey is published and it's indicating that Novell is most likely not to survive 2009
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Microsoft SVP on GNU/Linux and .NET
Interesting quote from Microsoft's Senior Vice President of Servers and Tools
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