These puff-pieces often appear to come in bursts, possibly to knock pro-technology (read: pro-FOSS, pro-standards) articles off the main page.

Slashdot could provide a great *security* service by steering people away from MS products. It’s the only product line that can be said to be designed to spread malware and, in particular, viruses. However, part of security is availability and if your data is locked into technologies controlled by a hostile third party *cough*redmond*cough then it becomes unavailable anyway.