After a years-long dispute, Microsoft and the computing and education project One Laptop Per Child said Thursday that they had reached an agreement to offer Windows on the organization’s computers.

Changes since last week's annoucement: * dotnet11 now works again. Removed GAC kludge, added font kludges. * new verb fontfix to install working versions of arphic fonts (bad versions crash dotnet 1.1) * fixed dotnet20, too. And wsh56 no longer requires you to run vcrun6 first (it does it for you).

Richard Stallman just switched to an OLPC XO, for the free bios, and at that same moment in time, Nicholas Negroponte made some odd statements about Windows and the OLPC.

Do you love going to the dentist to get a filling — if it means you don’t have to get root canal? In this case, XP is the filling you learn to live with because you don’t want all the deeper pain associated with Vista migrations. But that doesn’t mean you love XP.

The Standish group recently completed an extensive study that examines factors influencing open-source adoption. Based on five years of research and analysis, the report provides intriguing insights into open-source adoption levels and the way that open source is reshaping the software industry.

Best Greasemonkey and Stylish scripts (both are Firefox extensions). How to modify the look of websites like gmail, google, google reader, last.fm, lyrics and other stuff to make youtube better and some other cool greasemonkey and stylish scripts.

Much has been said about the evils of vendor lock-in. The reality is that there are definite advantages to being a "Windows shop," particularly in terms of manageability and unified IT support.

When Microsoft talks about open source, people in the FOSS community tend to generally take it with a pinch - or more likely a kilo - of salt. Revealing the crown jewels of its empire - the Windows source code - has never ever been canvassed.