t's always a heart-warming occasion when some company or organization opts not to use Windows, and that's nothing if not an increasingly common phenomenon.

But when said company is none other than Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) -- and when it's done in an apparently public way, with explicit mention of Linux as a preferable alternative -- and when Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) feels worried enough to try to "set the record straight" soon afterward -- well, parties just have to break out in the Linux blogosphere.