Last month at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON), it seemed like Microsoft was everywhere you looked, avouching its interest in open source. Thanks to the company's history -- including some very recent history -- a great many in the open source community viewed the company's presence with mistrust, suspicious of Redmond's motives and apprehensive of what would follow.

Another good look at the way Microsoft coordinates the press

It doesn't always work... humorous comic strip... ... ...

A look back at smoking guns and some more highly convincing evidence that shows Microsoft using "plants" in the media

FOSS developers and organisers continue to take Microsoft money for betrayal of principles

Microsoft prebundles own addons (turning products into 'features'), targets countries where ODF is adopted.

Negotiation with Microsoft on its own terms is a mistake and here is why.

Driven by developer interest in OOXML (Office Open XML), Microsoft says it has been intensifying its efforts to build developer tools for the document format.