Steve Ballmer recently caught flack for essentially saying that Apple users pay an Apple tax of $500 for buying Macs compared to PCs. Does that mean that Linux users are forced to pay a Microsoft tax every time they buy a PC with Microsoft software on it?

GNU/Linux users mostly unable to access Microsoft's IM protocols

The BBC - now filled with former Microsoft executives - is still blocking Free software users from content that they have already paid for and at the time time it is promoting lagging products from Microsoft

Obama's inauguration in Microsoft Silverlight; no access to GNU/Linux users

Microsoft changes Mozilla's software without permission from the users and the aim is self promotion

Microsoft spends a lot of money ensuring that it becomes the only gateway to misinformation to more people, even users of Linux

Microsoft has extended its covenant to not sue users of Linux-based products from Novell to all GPL v3 users as soon as GPL v3 code is integrated into SUSE Linux Enterprise. This means that the patent protection Microsoft extends to Novell customers now covers every customer who uses any Linux-based software that Novell distributes under GPL v3.

Former Microsoft employee announces that Canonical will send Ubuntu users to Microsoft's datacentres and herein we explain why it's a big mistake that will alienate users

A small Chinese high-tech firm is suing Microsoft Corp because it says the software giant has stolen its creation that allows Internet users to type Chinese characters, but Microsoft countered the claim on Friday.