A not-so-alarmist post pointing to news about attempts to embrace and extend "Open Source" (mostly by Microsoft)

Microsoft mocks rivals by pretending that office suites are a Microsoft "innovation"; another XML patent sneaks through

Additional information about potential causes of layoffs and an example of how Novell employees become drones for a paycheck, accepting nonsensical policies in the process

Dissatisfaction made more vocal regarding Microsoft's ballot proposal

Microsoft is the largest software company in the world, a point to which I think just about everyone will agree. They have used a closed source model for their entire existence, but their recent actions make me wonder if they are experimenting with the idea of becoming at least somewhat open source.

Sometimes it's hard to choose which foot to shoot. What the heck, let's line both of them up.

The news publication eWEEK will pretend to be delivering information when it fact broadcasting a staged advert
Ziff-Davis has already published a Vista advert as an "eSeminar". It's a publication for sale, always open to sellouts.

MICROSOFT pretends to have changed for the better. It pretends that it allows users of Windows to use Web browsers other than Internet Explorer, but the following post - artistically titled "Microsoft being a Onecare [Wanker]" - suggests otherwise...