04.30.08
Links 30/04/2008: KDE 4.1 Reaches Alpha, Microsoft Proxy Fight Against Yahoo Foreseen
- Open source big names helping attract new users
- KDE 4.1 Alpha1 Release Announcement
- KDE 4 rev 802150: Work in progress [Screenshots]
- Open Enterprise Interview: Bill Karpovich
- Jonathan Schwartz has the last word on MySQL
- Yahoo Investors See Imminent Microsoft Proxy Fight
- Microsoft to Go Hostile?
- 18 Features Windows Should Have (but Doesn’t)
- EFF: Microsoft betrayed MSN Music customers
- Vista SP1, XP SP3 distribution glitch
- The Biggest Windows XP Myth of All
- Whitehats tackle The Great Botnet Dilemma
- Dream Job at Microsoft Too Good to Be True? Yep.
This ad is a high-school project and it’s quite old (KDE 3.1 days, almost half a decade back)
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. 
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. 
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. 
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. 
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. 
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.