In the process of pillorying the intelligence of buying Macs in the recession, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may have admitted defeat in fighting Linux-based Netbooks. Ballmer said: "Paying an extra $500 for a computer in this environment--same piece of hardware--paying $500 more to get a logo on it? I think that's a more challenging proposition for the average person than it used to be."

In the very near future, robots will become an indispensable tool that man can’t live without. Just like computers, it will do complicated and challenging tasks thus making things a lot easier for all of us. We all know that majority of personal computers are still running Microsoft Windows operating system and that the year of the Linux desktop is still far from reality.

Part two of my rant deals with another situation that is slightly different - "Why then, do applications (or their developers) decide to take away [or keep] that choice?"

I started looking at the possible courses of action to happen if Microsoft vanished. What would a Microsoft-free world look like ?

I have seen a lot of gamers who feel that there aren't good games to play on Linux. There's an array of free open source games waiting to run on the Linux platform. So I got the top linux games in 2009. And here I come.

HAVING WATCHED very closely the announcements of this product, I finally present what I was able to gather.

We’ve got a whole lot of Full Circle goodness for you in this issue! This month:Command and Conquer - Troubleshooting, How-To : Program in C, and Becoming An Ubuntu User.

While I agree that there are applications for KDE 4.2 which still lack several important features (like for example the equalizer and ability to go to the previous/next song using the tag editor in Amarok), I must say that it also improved very much since the last time I had a look at it. It is definitely faster, the desktop looks nicer, it does not seem a beta environment any more.