Honest answer from ASUS may finally explain a change in strategy, attitude

Steve Ballmer has recently sent a memo to every Microsoft employee. Ballmer's memo leaked really quickly (I wonder if he expected it). After swallowing the corporate-madness part (but that's allowed: he's a "mad" corporate leader after all), one particular passage really grabbed my attention.

Equilibrium of the law has yet to define the capacity for freedom

Mostly Linux and Unix humor with some unavoidable MS-bashing :)

Intel's enthusiasm for open source is gathering speed: now it is endorsing professional Linux certifications, snubbing the old Microsoft certification program.

The Microsoft-faithful go out of their way to say that OOXML has lost to ODF?

One thing I hate above almost anything else is when a vendor tells you what you can and can't do with your software. That drives me bonkers. Sure, they wrote it and it's theirs to do with as they wish, but once they sell/give it to me, it's mine to do with as I see fit - within the confines of the software itself.

Another case of a blogger get-together for Microsoft's benefit