As the cold war between the techno giants- Microsoft and Google continues the big shots are up with big comments. We caught up with Microsoft's founder speculations and round-up on Google Chrome OS. In an interview CNET, Bill Gates went head-on stating Google's Chrome OS looks a lot like a familiar foe: Linux.

Microsoft manages the press in order to hype up Office 2010 and it can be fined severely for AstroTurfing now that laws and enforcement are in place

Bits from the press about Novell and virtualisation for the most part. MANY people may not remember this, but Ron Hovsepian admitted giving power to Microsoft in the datacentres. It was part of the deal that Novell should permit Windows to run as a host and SUSE usually be a guest.

WE HAVE BEGUN working on some older Comes vs Microsoft exhibits and today we properly document Exhibit PX00891 (1991) [PDF]. It starts with Brad Silverberg, one of Microsoft's crudest people. At Microsoft, they were speaking about Digital Research, which they committed abuses against (see our DRI reference page). Here is part of the correspondence...

A deeper look at Melco's deal with Microsoft... IN some ways, the Melco sellout resembles the Brother Industries sellout. Microsoft blogger Mary Jo Foley wrote about this deal almost gleefully and also suggested that OEMs might be next to sign (i.e. sell out to Microsoft). Does she know anything that others do not? The short story as she tells it goes like this...

More book-burning phenomena and how it affects perception of Microsoft

Example of hypocrisy and misrepresentation, using stereotypes [1, 2, 3]

Novell promotes patent encumbrances with Microsoft, Xandros helps Windows again, and the SFLC warns about Melco