An analysis combining Ubuntu's relationship with Microsoft proxies such as Yahoo! search and Mono; more on how TurboHercules may be connected to Microsoft and why IBM's response was tactless

I went cold turkey from Ubuntu nearly 11 months ago, for various reasons, only to force myself to learn other, more "complicated" distros, and in turn learn more about the Linux/Unix operating system.

India on Thursday gave Microsoft a thumbs-down in the war of standards for office documents. In a tense meeting at Delhi’s Manak Bhawan, the 21-member technical committee decided that India will vote a ‘no’ against Microsoft’s Open Office Extensible Mark Up Language (OOXML) standard at the ISO.

Bad news for Microsoft (and particularly for Vista 7) in Turkey as OEM stranglehold get cracked

Since I installed Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop 64b some video files had no thumbs preview in Nautilus. After 3 months I decided to fix this, and it's a very easy and fast fix.

Going from Windows to Linux need not be done all at once. You don't need to throw yourself into the deep end of the pool in order to learn how to swim. For those with a Microsoft habit they want to kick but don't want to go cold turkey, here are some ways to ease into Linux without giving up Windows -- well, not immediately, anyway.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was in Ankara to announce the opening of Microsoft Innovation Center which is founded in Bilkent University. The most important task of Microsoft Innovation Center in this process will be “Microsoft Government Project”.

Turkey gradually moves to GNU/Linux starting with the administration, so Steve Ballmer pays a visit and pays the government

Reports that Microsoft had to release the Hyper-V Linux Integration Components (LinuxIC) under the GPLv2 because they had violated the GPL have been rebutted by Microsoft and Vyatta.