There have been some questions raised about how we service the Windows Update components and concerns expressed about software installing silently. I want to clarify the issue so that everyone can better understand why the self-updating of Windows Update acts the way it does.

Last week, AMD's recent support for Linux in the video card sector inspired me to give Linux another shot. I decided to give Kubuntu Feisty a try, as I am already somewhat accustomed to KDE. Unfortunately, I ran into all of the same problems that I had run into with previous versions of linux, as well as some new ones.

What I got from Clint Patterson, public relations director for Microsoft's Unified Communications Group, went a couple notches beyond the "competition is healthy" category of platitudes I'd expected. Instead Patterson offered a broad criticism of open-source businesses that hark back to days of yore when top executives called the collaborative programming philosophy "un-American" and a "cancer."

Oh, my. We're back to the good old days of Microsoft mythology. I had actually believed that Microsoft had grown up and wised up.

The unofficial end to the SCO saga. [SCO] today announced it received a notice from The Nasdaq Stock Market indicating that the Company's securities will be delisted from Nasdaq on September 27, 2007, pending an appeal.

Without GNU/Linux he'd be even richer. This is the REAL reason they hate us so much and continually attack us.

To at least some people at Microsoft, this isn't about meeting the needs of customers who want a stable, solid, vendor-neutral format for storing and managing documents. It's just another skirmish with the open source crowd and rivals like IBM, and all that matters is winning. What a waste. What a betrayal of trust.