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Does Microsoft Deliver Anti-Linux Rhetoric to Best Buy Workers?

If you walk into any Best Buy store and head over to the computers, you can't help but notice that Microsoft Windows is by far the most prominently displayed operating system. You can find Mac systems and the occasional Linux netbook, but Linux in particular gets short shrift at the stores. Although Microsoft has not responded on the issue, this post suggests that Microsoft itself is behind the ghettoized status that Linux has at Best Buy.


Open Source Windows? Don't Count on It

Obama's inauguration must have brought out the optimist in tech journalists. In the last week, Ron Miller and Charles Babcock have written to implore Microsoft to open source Windows. While inspired and with some solid reasoning, I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon. Here's why.



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Check in with Chris DiBona, Google's open source chief, on how committed Google is to OSS, and more.....

Google announces OpenSocial 0.8.....

Bill Gates discussed Windows 7 at the D conference. It has a multi-touch interface--video and photos found here.....

Ruby on Rails upgrade may arrive this weekend.....

Eighteen universities say they are turning to Groundwork Open Source's network management software.....

Funambol, maker of open source messaging software, has a new version of its BlackBerry push e-mail and PIM sync app.....



Open Source vs. Microsoft in the Enterprise

One of the latest reports from Forrester, Enterprise Desktop and Web 2.0/SAAS Platform Trends, 2007 is starting to make its way around media outlets on the web. The Forrester folks tracked software trends in major categories across 50,000 users month-by-month, and now their conclusions are out. Depending on how you look at it, they're either good or bad for open source.


Microsoft Singularity: An Experimental OS Opens Up

When you think of dependable operating systems, do you think of Microsoft? If you've spent a lot of time with Windows, your answer to that is probably no. Nevertheless, Microsoft has been working away on an operating system for years now (since 2003) that would emphasize reliability via a tightly managed code kernel. Focused primarily on research applications, and a product of Microsoft Research, you can now download the source code and more from Microsoft's open source project hosting site Codeplex. So what does Microsoft have in mind?


Microsoft's New Openness: Danger Ahead for OSS Developers?

In the wake of Microsoft's announcement of new openness and interoperability initiatives, market researchers at Gartner are warning open source developers to tread carefully. In particular, a report from Gartner warns that underlying patents could create litigation risks if open source developers decide to play fast and loose with the documentation and APIs that Microsoft is making available. Are the warnings to be taken seriously?