It's funny isn't it? By default, any Linux distribution comes with business server functionality like an e-mail, file, and print serving, but Microsoft still gets the lion's share of the small business server world. Steve J. Vaughan-Nichols wonders what's going on here?

Microsoft uses Free software to serve the very opposite goal, which is to block Free software users from accessing Web sites

You can have Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft's trust-no-one innovation, or you can have the advance KDE desktop, all full of polish and useful functionality. Bruce Byfield compares the two.

It goes almost without saying that the release of Windows 7 is important for Microsoft to stem the tide of customer dissatisfaction with Vista. At the same time, ironically, a new release of Windows doesn't matter as much as it used to.

More news about analysts that sell their opinions and how Microsoft is using these

News about banks, Microsoft, Paul Allen's voyages, and Microsoft's funding of the US president

The Bulgarian government cannot pay Microsoft, which leaves only one choice

Novell's promotional action in IDG gets even more incestuous; MySQL and Sun's other assets revisited in relation to Novell