Summary: New articles of interest, mostly those showing a decline in dominance

● Microsoft allows HP to wipe Windows 7 with XP through 2010

Despite valiant efforts to push its Windows licensees to adopt Vista and the forthcoming Windows 7, Microsoft has one again agreed to extend the option of selling Windows XP for use on new PCs for another year, through April 30, 2010.

● Microsoft's unprofessional and defective VISTA platform

Office of the Texas Attorney General follows-up on my formal complaint to State Senator Juan Hinojosa against Microsoft for ripping-off Texans with their unprofessional, defective and incompatible VISTA software. Letter of complaint posted below AG's response. Other states should follow and hold Microsoft accountable.

● Compute: A closer look at Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8

That aside, IE8 is not a bad product. It's no Firefox, which remains my favorite browser by far.

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Performance-wise I didn't notice much difference than IE7 but I confess I am very comfortable with Firefox at home at this point. At work I use IE6 or IE7 almost all day and the move to IE8 at home really didn't mean any big changes for me either in performance or having to think how to do anything differently or rethink any menus or toolbars.

● Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Fails To Halt Firefox Gains