Old dogs may struggle with new tricks, but they seem to be able to figure out new licenses. In a shocking move, Microsoft announced Monday the release of Hyper-V Linux Integration Components (LinuxIC).

Do we actually own anything any more? Every we time buy, download or use software we have to agree to licenses that means that even though we may pay for them, we are only paying for their use not their ownership.

Google's Engineering Director has promised that its forthcoming Chrome OS will see 'the end of malware'.

Hacao, the Linux-based Vietnamese IT company, did it again. The good news, they have successfully created a Vietnamese language netbook based on Linux. The bad news, Hacao Linux, based on Puppy Linux, comes installed by default on these netbooks.

Aleksey Bragin announced the 0.3.10 release of ReactOS, the Free Software replacement for Microsoft Windows(TM).

It features a new Universal ATA driver as the default disk driver that allows support for Serial ATA and partitions greater than 8GB.
Also there's a lot of work done on increasing USB compatibility.

Now that we have burned our image of Linux we will be able to check that your existing computer is compatible with Linux by loading the Linux distribution from the CD without actually installing it. This allows you to try Linux without touching your current operating system.

Claws Mail is a very light weight, easy to use email client that's not only popular, but it works in an incredible number of environments. The current "stable" release is version 3.7.2, which oddly enough, doesn't appear in most distros.

Everybody's guessing how would Google shape their recently announced OS. I guess the Internet would not break with one more bunch of half-guesses :)