Tomboy does not fancy Gnote; Jo Shields keeps promoting Mono in Debian and Ubuntu

Anyone connecting form Iran is blocked from accessing certain Google sections (Google Summer of Code 2009 site in the example)

Brandon Le Blanc from Microsoft posted an interesting post about Netbooks and Linux last week. While we agreed with his comments about customers wanting choice and looking for outstanding hardware options, we disagree with much of his analysis and unsurprisingly the overall ’spin’ of the post.

Phases of an ongoing Microsoft crisis, in detail. HOW CAN ONE tell that Microsoft stands on its last leg? Well, there are many yardsticks one can use, but one of them is a purely behavioural one. Microsoft employees, for example, are attacking competitors out in the open right now.

Bill Gates: “They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.” Beware of the Microsoft bearing "addictive" gifts. THIS is not another post about EDGI, but it sure illustrates how Microsoft spins its "addiction" trips (see quote at the top) as something of charitable value.

Microsoft pollutes data and programs using proprietary formats and software patents; Apple pollutes the Internet with software patents

Operating system security is always a hotly contended subject, and last week Microsoft amped up the hype by claiming that Windows Vista and the soon-to-be-released 7 is the world’s most secure OS, beating both Linux and Mac OS X.

Here’s what Microsoft’s chief operating officer Kevin Turner had to say at the MidMarket CIO Summit last week: