Today Linux desktop manufacturer Xandros acquired Linspire for an undisclosed amount. Xandros will also be keeping existing engineering, support, and key sales employees and long-time Linspire employee and CEO Larry Kettler will be joining the Xandros executive team as the VP of Business Development. While Xandros didn’t mention their total employee numbers Xandros CEO Andreas [...]

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Apparently Balmer’s visit to Budapest Corvinus University in Hungary today wasn’t well received. A man with “Microsoft Corruption” written across his back decided to egg Steve Balmer during a speach. Balmer stated this was the first time it’s happened to him professionally. I wonder if it will be the last.
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It seems that open source maven, Matt Asay along with well-known Microsoft blogger Mary Jo Foley have come to the conclusion that Microsoft doesn’t need open source. Asay contends that Microsoft’s open source activity has more to do with regulators than best practices and user collaboration.
Microsoft’s open-source charade is not about customers. It’s about [...]

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When I think of open source software Microsoft is rarely the first word that comes to mind. Actually it’s not even on of the first ten words. However, there are probably more Microsoft Windows users using open source software than on any other operating system. Despite this Microsoft’s stance on open source is changing [...]

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Bill Gates steps down as the Chairman of Microsoft on July 1st to transition to full time philanthropic efforts with the Gates Foundation. However, I wonder how effective Bill will be other than writing checks. You see Bill’s never played well with others.

Microsoft v. United States

Microsoft v. AOL (Netscape)
Microsoft v. Apple
Microsoft v. Sun

At a speech [...]

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