At the Linux Collaboration Summit, held last week in San Francisco, an interesting panel discussion took place about Linux' position in the wider operating systems market. Included were Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation executive director, Ian Murdock, Sun community and developer vice president, and Sam Ramji, Microsoft platform strategy director.

Is Netcraft an accomplice or merely a victim? .

A close look at Microsoft's maneuvers that may compromise Free software later on

The VAR Guy loves cat fights as much as the next guy. Jennifer Aniston vs. Angelina Jolie? Classic but a bit dated. Canonical vs. Microsoft? Not quite as sexy, but certainly timely and just as much fun. The latest spat involves Canonical dismissing Microsoft's claims in the netbook market.

Ziff Davis, a supposedly objective publisher, is publicly promoting Microsoft products for the company's dollars

THE Novell-Xenocode connection is a reality that we've covered or shown in [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. More recent posts also explained that Xenocode is a sort of an offshoot of Microsoft, whose employees it accommodates [1, 2, 3, 4].

Windows renders E-mail chaotic and the U.S. electrical grid gets cracked. Nothing beats a brand-new explanation from Microsoft itself about the impact of its poor security skills, which continue to this date.

The German competition authority, the BundesKartellamt, has fined Microsoft €9m for colluding with retailers to set the price of "Office Home and Student 2007".