It seems like our initial reaction was right. It occurred just before finding validation in other sources whose assessment was similar. Here are some bits and pieces that you probably read to consider before falling victim to Microsoft's media blitz.

Microsoft's lobbying levels seems to be rising as attempts to contaminate the EU with mathenmatical patents trigger some alarms

Microsoft is finally going to add support for ODF and Adobe PDF to its Office productivity suite, the company will unveil on Wednesday.

Novell's old partner Astrum is suing it for its betrayals.

OOXML has yet another very bad bug that gets mathematics wrong.

Another one chalked up for all the GNU/Linux operating systems out there. Proof once again that the community makes it what it is. You may be perplexed as to exactly what I am rambling on about, not more than six days ago an OpenSSH vulnerability was discovered in GNU/Linux operating systems derived from Debian, more specifically, Ubuntu. Not a matter to be taken light heartedly in the slightest:

Microsoft invades another free open source conference (this time in Romania)

Here is what seems like new attempt s to justify the use of Mono at Java's expense