The evidence shows that Microsoft’s marketing department has not done particularly well with Windows Vista. Almost every story you see about Vista is a negative one. Even I, as a Linux user, think that Vista is better than its reputation. But Microsoft’s marketing is not always a failure, it appears.

Microsoft announced on Friday that it would be joining the Apache Software Foundation, one of the leading organizations in the open-source world. Microsoft became a platinum sponsor of the ASF, which costs $100,000/year and is the highest level of sponsorship that the foundation offers.

Sightings of what seems like Microsoft-generated news.

July 29th: the day Microsoft began suing competitors using its patents as a weapon.

Tracing back to find possible roots of the latest massive attack on FOSS

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.

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

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