Steve Ballmer

Category:Microsoft Steve Ballmer is the CEO of Microsoft Corporation. He is tied to many of the aggressive (sometimes criminal) activities at the company and he is renowned for a flamboyant behaviour in public. His wife comes from Microsoft's PR Department, Waggener Edstrom.

Steve Ballmer Quotes on Linux, Free Software, and Novell

Various articles

11.17.06 Dear Mr. Ballmer

11.24.06 Didio: Ballmer’s IP Threats an “Intimidation Tactic”

12.16.06 Steinman: Ballmer’s PASS Statements Taken Out of Context

02.17.07 Ballmer Confirms Novell Deal is About Patents

02.23.07 Microsoft Stands Behind Steve Ballmer’s Linux Threats

02.24.07 Novell Repeats GPL Claims; Ballmer’s Accusations Debunked

05.07.07 Video Humour: Ted Haeger (of Novell) Pulling a Ballmer

08.24.07 Steve Ballmer Makes Phonecalls to Flip Those Votes in Favour of Monopoly (Updated: China Says “NO”)

10.08.07 Ballmer’s FUD Makes a Comeback (and Microsoft Real ‘Open Source’ Plan is Unleashed) (Updated)

10.21.07 Video: Steve Ballmer Claims Red Hat Customers Owe Him Some Money

03.03.08 Bill and Steve Couldn’t Buy the US Vote This Time Around

05.19.08 Eggs Thrown at Steve Ballmer (New Video)

08.30.08 Microsoft CEO Might Try to Shoot Down Portugal’s Open Standards Bill

10.05.08 The Return of Vista Collusions: Will Ballmer be Deposed Soon?

11.22.08 Prepare for the Steve Ballmer Deposition Following Crimes with Intel

11.23.08 How Close is Rob Enderle to Microsoft? Here’s How Close. (Updated)

01.28.09 Newly-Appointed Yahoo Puppet: Let Microsoft Have Us

02.07.09 Microsoft Plays Hardball in Politics

02.13.09 Microsoft’s CEO Pressures the Government to Loot the Public and Help Corporations

02.13.09 How Steve Ballmer Was Schmoozing Neelie Kroes

03.30.09 Shane O’Neill Meets Steve Ballmer, Constantly Attacks GNU/Linux from IDG

05.17.09 Money Matters for Gates, Ballmer and Allen Families

06.04.09 Is Steve Ballmer Blackmailing Obama?

06.17.09 How Steve Ballmer (and Colleagues) Deliberately Sabotaged OS/2

07.27.09 Steve Ballmer, 2 Years Ago: Open Source “Not a Business Model We Can Embrace”

09.15.09 Wanted: Copy of Steve Ballmer’s Latest “Embarrassing” Public Appearance

09.20.09 Microsoft Profit is Down Sharply, But Ballmer Profit is Up

10.08.09 Microsoft CEO Admits Vista 7 Won’t Sell PCs

11.01.09 Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates Find a Second Home in the White House

11.03.09 Microsoft’s Software Patents Racket Against GNU/Linux Tightens Further

12.22.09 Put the Red Hat on

12.28.09 Steve Ballmer Should Not be Fired, He Should be Arrested

04.19.10 The SEC is Going After Microsoft (Again), Not Just Goldman Sachs

05.26.10 Latvia’s Digital Independence Under Attack by Microsoft

05.28.10 Two Questions: Will Steve Ballmer Leave and Did He Make Bach/Allard Leave?

05.31.10 University of Arizona Enters Microsoft Fog; Steve Ballmer Lobbies Malaysian Prime Minister to Enter Microsoft’s Proprietary Fog Computing Too

06.14.10 AOL Denies Being Open to Microsoft Takeover, Ruby on Rails Founder Calls Microsoft a “Buffoon” (and Formerly “Gorilla”) Due to Its CEO

08.03.10 Reader’s Post: Steve Ballmer Threatens Apple and All Tablet Makers

08.06.10 Florian Müller Unofficially Joins Microsoft’s ‘Team Apologista’

08.09.10 Steve Ballmer Fails in Tablets; Among Microsoft Windows Proponents, Only 9% Want Ballmer to Stay

09.21.10 Steve Ballmer Lobbies to Pay Less Tax

10.06.10 Update on Android Lawsuits

10.19.10 Ramifications for Steve Ballmer After Ray Ozzie Metaphorically Falls on His Sword

11.06.10 Microsoft CEO is Dumping MSFT

11.08.10 ”Microsoft is Like Enron in 2001!“

11.14.10 Microsoft Starts Treating Vista Phony 7 (WP7) like “KIN” and Ballmer Said to be Possibly Preparing to Elope

01.19.11 Another Software Company’s CEO (Named Steve) Expected to Leave

01.24.11 Microsoft Exodus Noted in the Press, Is Steve Ballmer Next?

02.08.11 Here It Goes Again: Insinuations That Microsoft’s CEO Should be Ousted

04.04.11 Microsoft Staff Dislikes the CEO of Microsoft

05.10.11 Steve Ballmer as King of Novell

05.16.11 Microsoft’s CEO More Likely to Leave After His Disastrous Skype Move

07.30.13 The Calls to Fire Steve Ballmer

04.23.14 Patent Racketeering Continues With Nadella: Motorola the Latest to Join the FUD Campaign

05.16.07 Steve Ballmer Accused of Bending Report on Patents, Gets Perfect Punishement

03.15.08 Lies, Damn Lies, Steve Ballmer and His Consultants/Analysts

05.29.08 The Ballmer Youth (Updated)

09.22.08 Steve Ballmer Admitted Microsoft is Absurdly Overvalued

10.27.08 Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates Personally Fund Republican

11.15.08 Might Steve Ballmer be Deposed for Collusion After All?

11.21.08 Microsoft Tries to Dodge Vista Collusions Lawsuit as Ballmer Deposition Nears

02.09.09 Steve Ballmer: “We cannot let intel do chip design on Linux ever”

02.12.09 Shareholder Likens Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates to Bernard Madoff

03.11.09 Open Source Business Conference 2009 Opened by Steve Ballmer’s Partners

05.24.09 Ballmer and Co Meet Officials in Kyrgyzstan, Latvia; Microsoft Ukraine Curses FOSS

10.19.09 Taking it Personal: Sarkozy and Steve Ballmer

11.24.09 Confirmed: Murdoch Waves Goodbye to Google in Order to Please Ballmer

12.21.09 Gates Successor May Leave, Steve Ballmer Expected to be Kicked Out Too

01.17.10 Meeting With Steve Ballmer Led Anti-GNU/Linux Executive to Quitting

01.18.10 Patents Roundup: Neelie Kroes and Microsoft Patents Revisited, Steve Ballmer Lobbies Obama on Patents, Apple Wants Linux Phones Embargoed (Using Patents)

01.28.10 Richard Stallman: “Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer Still Spineless and Greedy” (Regarding Censorship)

02.09.10 Steve Ballmer Visits Obama Once Again as His Fight Against Google Continues

02.16.10 Ashley Highfield (Formerly of the MSBBC) ‘Pulls a Ballmer’

05.03.10 As Google Eats Microsoft’s Cash Cow Ballmer Finds New Attack Dogs in Yahoo!

05.21.10 Steve Ballmer Tossed J Allard for Failing With Courier — Claim

05.31.10 Former Microsoft Manager Knows That Xbox 360 is Failing, Ballmer Admits It

06.01.10 Carol Bartz is Acting Like Ballmer #2

06.16.10 “Ballmer’s Departure Seems to be Imminent”

07.22.10 Steve Ballmer at Risk of Being Thrown Out, Bill Gates Still Makes the News Due to Fraud

07.31.10 Microsoft’s #1 Cash Cow Doesn’t Sell Well Anymore, Steve Ballmer Pressured to Leave

08.09.10 Replacement for Ballmer From the Outside, Microsoft’s Inexpensive Outside Workforce Suppressed by US Congress

10.04.10 Microsoft’s Debt is Growing and More Layoffs Likely Imminent Based on Steve Ballmer’s Remarks

11.20.10 Seattle Times Uses Copyright Law for Censorship, to Defend Steve Ballmer

01.23.11 United States of Steve Ballmer

02.17.11 Nicolas Sarkozy ‘Pulls a Kissinger’ on Steve Ballmer

05.26.11 Microsoft Skype is Collapsing While Ballmer is Pressured to Resign and More People Flee

05.27.11 TechBytes Episode 48: Will The Real Steve Ballmer Please Step Down?

09.14.11 Cablegate: When Steve Ballmer Met President Bouteflika in Algeria

11.13.11 Steve Ballmer and His Wife Connie Join Gates and Co. in Their Crusade Against Public Education

11.14.11 Ballmer: Android “Just a Press Release”

01.23.13 Microsoft Thug Joachim Kempin Passes Blame to Steve Ballmer in Order to Sell New Book

05.07.13 Gates, Ballmer, and Zuckerberg Lobby Together Against Public Interests, Relying on Corruptible Officials

08.23.13 Criminal CEO Steve Ballmer is Out as Microsoft’s Bribery of Governments (to Hold Citizens Hostage) Revealed More Common Than Previously Believed

08.27.13 In a Just World, Given Microsoft’s Crimes, Bank Accounts of Gates, Ballmer et al. Should be Emptied, Money Given in Reparations to Their Victims

03.24.16 Under Nadella, Another Ballmer With a Different Face, Patent Extortion Strategy Against Linux Still Very Much Alive

03.26.16 Finishing Icahn’s and Ballmer’s Job: Microsoft Wants to Kill Yahoo! and Exterminate GNU/Linux in Datacentres

03.27.16 Bajo Nadella, Otro Ballmer Con Diferente Cara y Muchos Menos Kilos de Peso, La Extorsión de Patentes Contra Linux Esta muy Viva Todavía

04.14.19 ‘Poor’ (Multi-Millionaire) Novell CEO, Who Colluded With Steve Ballmer Against GNU/Linux, is Trying to Censor Techrights

11.17.06 I thought Novell said there were no Infractions

11.21.06 Patents Threat Denounced, But What About Trademarks?

11.21.06 When One Loses, Another One Gains

11.22.06 More Confusion on the Nature of the Agreement

11.22.06 The Community and Rivals Cope, Despite Novell’s Fluke

11.23.06 Novell Sought Peace… for Self

11.24.06 Time to Retract?

11.27.06 Microsoft Did it Again, History Repeats Itself

11.29.06 Novell’s Open Letter Watered Down?

11.29.06 Q&A with Ron Hovsepian

11.30.06 Developers! Developers! Developers!

11.30.06 The Power of Consensus

12.01.06 Links Roundup Amidst a Two-faced Attitude

12.02.06 Anyone Believe Microsoft is this Stupid?

12.03.06 Embrace, Extend, Exterminate

12.03.06 Microsoft Linux and the Kernel Question

12.04.06 More Shuttleworth on Novell-Microsoft

12.09.06 Open Source and Advertising are the Future

12.11.06 The Quiet Before the Storm

12.12.06 Windows Users Undisclosed Balance Sheet Liability

12.14.06 Developers Still Flock to Open Source Software

12.14.06 OSDL Changes Due to Remark on Novell/Microsoft Deal

12.27.06 Stafford Masie Presentation at CITI Forum: Transcript

12.30.06 Microsoft Is Not Out the Equation

01.08.07 Novell’s Global Effect on Perception of Software Patents

01.10.07 Microsoft’s Strategy: Unite and Conquer?

01.13.07 More Proof that Novell Approves Need for Patents Covenants

01.18.07 Jeremy Allison is at it again

01.18.07 Novell in the News: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good

01.23.07 Walmart Accepts Microsoft’s Stay-Out-Of-Court-Free Coupons

01.25.07 Intellectual Property Litigation and Behind-the-scene Funding Go Beyond SCO

01.29.07 The Impact of the Novell/Microsoft Deal, in Pictures

02.17.07 Novell News, Opinions and Analysis: A Roundup

02.19.07 Patents Trojan Wearing a Gown of Interoperability

02.19.07 Red Hat CEO Talks About Lack of Communication in Microsoft/Novell Deal

02.20.07 Microsoft: Open Source isn’t Free

02.21.07 In the News: FUD, VB, and the FSF

02.21.07 What is a Clone Product? And Other Questions…

02.23.07 Discussing the Futility of the Novell Deal

02.23.07 Novell PR Doing (More) Damage Control

02.25.07 Microsoft Scares (and Drives Away) Its Own Customers, But Not Linux Users

02.25.07 New Campaign: Show Us The Infringements, Microsoft

02.27.07 Boston Globe Calls It “Civil War”, But Microsoft Loses the Most

03.02.07 Microsoft Props Up Novell

03.14.07 Microsoft Hijacks the Voice of Novell Customers

04.03.07 LGPLv3 Draft Released; What Do People Say About Novell?

04.06.07 Concerns About Mono Raise Suspicion About a Hidden Plan

04.17.07 What is Novell’s SLED “Patent Tax” Per Unit?

04.20.07 What if Patent Deals Never Covered Linux at All?

04.24.07 Finding Humour in Novell’s Deal with Microsoft

04.28.07 Novell Fights Red Hat, Fights for Mono While Microsoft Fights Free Software

05.08.07 Steinman on the Balcony Again, Offering Red Hat FUD

05.09.07 Novell Confirms the Deal Was About “Intellectual Property”

05.10.07 Microsoft Source Code Request for SUSE

05.13.07 Microsoft Pulls an SCO, Novell Gives Credence to Arguments

05.14.07 Blog Reactions to Microsoft’s Threats (Updated)

05.14.07 Novell is not the next SCO, Microsoft is.

05.14.07 Microsoft Says It Will Not Sue GNU/Linux Users, But There’s a Snag (Updated)

05.14.07 Novell Put Its Own Customers at Risk

05.15.07 Two Writers Explain Why Microsoft Can Never Win This Battle

05.15.07 Users of Free Software, Companies Yawn at Microsoft’s Vague Claims

05.15.07 Further Evidence That Microsoft’s Patent Claims are an Ineffective Farce

05.19.07 Patent Trolling Versus the US Economy

05.20.07 SCO an Active Litigious Proxy, Novell a Passive Litigious Proxy

05.21.07 Microsoft Dismisses Being Subjected to GPL, Uses Novell as a Proxy

05.23.07 [Humour The Master Plans and the Hypothetical Scenarios]

05.26.07 A Look Back at Noteworthy Stories

05.29.07 More Deception, More Silence, More FUD, and More “Gorilla Dust”

06.04.07 Free Software Arsneral Exposed, Leaving Microsoft Shy

07.07.07 Microsoft Still Not Interested in the ISO Standard, Unless It’s Theirs

08.01.07 As the Saying Goes, Who Invited These Guys to the “Free Software” World?

08.01.07 Quote of the Day: What Microsoft Tries to Achieve by Invading OSI

08.02.07 Open Source Becomes Web 2.0 and Novell 2.0 (or SCO 3.0)

08.03.07 Microsoft’s ODF Sabotage is a Case of History Repeating Itself

08.05.07 Microsoft Honours Competition…… Not.

08.06.07 Mr. Shuttleworth Calls Microsoft’s Actions What They Are — Extortion (Updated)

08.06.07 Novell Sings Microsoft’s Self-serving Tunes

08.07.07 Microsoft’s Case Against Linux Takes a Dive, Novell Rearms, Patent Trolls Leave the Bridge

08.07.07 Microsoft Resorted to So-called ‘Patent Terrorism’ Back in 2004

08.17.07 Things Might Get Litigious as Microsoft Gets Aggressive and ISO ‘Bought Out’

08.20.07 Keep Your Enemies Closer and Keep Your Products Incompatible

08.22.07 ODF/OOXML Watch: Bill Gates Lobbies Behind the Scenes Again, Jason Matusow Deceives (Updated)

08.25.07 What Would Jack Messman and Ray Noorda Say?

08.26.07 Microsoft Set for Lock-in-backed Hijack (and Novell Helps It)

08.27.07 Lying One’s Way from Loss to Victory

08.27.07 Has Microsoft ‘Bought’ the Vote for OOXML in Vietnam?

08.30.07 Dissecting Microsoft’s OOXML/ODF Strategy

08.31.07 Has Microsoft Just ‘Pulled a Hungary’ on OOXML Voting in Poland? (Updated)

09.01.07 The Antitrust Action Ends Amid the Biggest Microsoft Blunders

09.02.07 Today is the Day — The Day the World Will Learn That Crime Pays

09.03.07 Bill Gates and His ‘Attack Groups’

09.07.07 Broken Patent System: When the Fox Met the Hen

09.08.07 Investor/Community Conflict of Interests: Like Mozilla, (Un)Like Novell

09.12.07 Mark Shuttleworth Still Dislikes Microsoft’s Linux Deals

09.12.07 Novell’s Linux Deal: Exclusive, Controlled by Microsoft, Awakens Patent Monster

09.17.07 2006 Flashback: Ron Hovsepian Nods in Approval on Linux Patents

09.26.07 Quote of the Day on Knowing Our OSI ‘Buddies’ Wannabes

09.27.07 Novell and Microsoft Face the Wrath of Free/Fair Market Advocates

09.30.07 A Look Back: Novell’s Route to “Balance-sheet Liability”

10.01.07 Microsoft and Novell Talk About the Deal (Audio)

10.01.07 US Justice Department Criticised by American Antitrust Institute After Pro-Microsoft Foul Play

10.04.07 Humour: What If OpenSUSE 10.3 Was Announced Jointly by Novell and Microsoft?

10.07.07 A Peephole into Novell’s Past Sufferings from Microsoft

10.11.07 Here Come the Patent Infringement Suits (Updated)

10.15.07 Is Acacia SCO 2.0? Or was it Microsoft? Or Novell?

10.15.07 Patent (In)Sanity – Recent Links

10.16.07 How Mr. Gates Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Destructive Patents

10.16.07 Why Linus Should Denounce the Novell Deal as Well

10.16.07 Another Successful Invasion: Microsoft ‘Stung’ by the Open Source ‘Plague’

10.17.07 ISO No Longer Matters…

10.18.07 Other Reasons for Microsoft to Invade the Linux and Open Source Worlds

10.18.07 SJVN Opines That Microsoft Uses Sockpuppets Against Linux, Again

10.22.07 More on Microsoft’s Plan to Acquire (Extinguish) the Open Source Threat

10.22.07 Novell-like Terms, Without the Deal… Now 93% Off RRP

10.22.07 Slated on Microsoft’s Open Source Deals & Acquisition Strategy

10.23.07 The Fourth ‘Patent Deal’ was with Europe… and the Sixth Deal That Won’t be

10.25.07 Antitrust Action to End in Europe, Begin in South Korea

10.27.07 [Humour Is Your OpenSUSE Linux Legit?]

10.28.07 Disinformation on the Rise, Shameless Linux FUD Makes a Comeback

10.29.07 Studying Exclusionary Deals with OEMs

10.29.07 A Reader’s Perspective: Entering the Minds of the Patent Trolls

10.31.07 It’s Not Over in Europe; WIPO Wants Some More Open Source Whipping

10.31.07 Appalling. Absolutely Appalling.

11.07.07 “Microsoft Admirer“ Hijacks Open Source

11.11.07 The GNU/Linux Pen O’ Sheep

11.11.07 Is Vanity Culture Infectious?

11.15.07 Another ”Goodbye SUSE” Story and a Few Novell Flaws

11.16.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Dell, China, SCO, and Ron Hovsepian Interview

11.18.07 Flashback: Microsoft’s FUD Against Free Software

11.21.07 Ending the Exploitation of Developers by Novell, Microsoft and Others

11.22.07 Microsoft, Novell, SCO, and NASDAQ Delistings

11.23.07 Astroturfing Examples: Learning How Microsoft Tames the Internet

11.25.07 An Issue of Mistrust: Bill Gates, BayStar, Acacia, SCO, and Linux

11.25.07 OOXML Muscling Its Way Through German Politics

11.27.07 One Year Later: ”Novell: From hero to zero in sixty seconds…”

12.01.07 Public Letters Protesting Against Department of Justice Decisions

12.03.07 This Wednesday: Novell’s Financial Disclosures, BoycottNovell’s Voice on Linux.com

12.08.07 Analyst Firms, Including IDC and Gartner, Named and Shamed for Serving as Microsoft Mouthpieces

12.15.07 Novell and Microsoft versus VMWare, Red Hat

12.20.07 More Lawsuits and Attacks by Proxy, Courtesy of Microsoft

12.21.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell’s Past and NetWare Age

12.21.07 Microsoft Takes Stage Centre in the Year of the Patent Trolls (2007)

12.26.07 Fighting the Cost Advantage of GNU/Linux Using Software Patents

12.30.07 Off-topic Video: Rare Windows XP Commercial (Updated)

12.31.07 How Microsoft Operates in China and Parts of Asia

01.04.08 Novell Does Public Relations Work for Microsoft

01.08.08 There is No Community and There is No Communism, Either

01.10.08 Information Week Busted for Systematic Anti-Linux Agenda

01.10.08 Quick Mention: New Connection Between Kyocera Mita and Novell

01.13.08 Mozilla Firefox Meets Silverlight and Novell’s Impact on This Web Hijack

01.15.08 How Microsoft Changes Laws (the China Example)

01.19.08 By-Proxy Lawsuit and Conflicting Interests?

01.23.08 Brent Williams on the Microsoft/Novell deal

01.25.08 FUD, Litigation, Unsubstantiated Accusations Against GNU/Linux

01.25.08 Microsoft Conceals Financial Pains Using Money Games (Updatedx2)

01.25.08 Off-Topic: The Secret Crumbling of Microsoft’s Key Staff

01.26.08 Software Patents Hinged on Money and Political Influence

01.27.08 Microsoft Shill Alert: Burton Group FUD Attack Against VMWare

01.28.08 Quote of the Day: On Mono, Novell and Microsoft

01.29.08 Vapourware Warning: Old Tricks Persist or Make a Comeback

01.31.08 Week of Corruptions Coming This February

02.01.08 Novell’s Role in a Microsoft Strategy to Sideline GNU/Linux (Updated)

02.05.08 New Ballnux-powered Devices from Samsung and LG (Microsoft Sellouts)

02.08.08 OOXML Abuses: Making Room for Antitrust Regulators

02.11.08 Microsoft Stuck in a Novell NetWare-like Dilemma

02.11.08 Sapna Kumar Explains the GPLv3 (Video)

02.12.08 Peter O’Kelly (Burton Group) and Wouter Van Vugt Go Batting for Monopolisation

02.13.08 Behind the Microsoft Losses, Inability to Evolve

02.20.08 Did Microsoft Hijack XenSource Like It Tries to Hijack Yahoo?

02.21.08 Microsoft Introduces New Taxoperability Program

02.22.08 Quote of the Day: Microsoft is Open! (To More Racketeering)

02.22.08 Some Old and New Irregularities Surrounding the BRM in Geneva

02.23.08 Last-minute OOXML Games: Spot the Misconduct

02.23.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell’s Roots Move On, Return to Headlines

02.24.08 How to Spin Executive Exodus as Wonderful News

02.25.08 OSBC 2008 Conquered by Microsoft

02.27.08 MySQL’s Slight Changes to Business Plan After Sun’s Acquisition (Corrected, Updatedx2)

02.28.08 Yesterday’s Microsoft Slashvertisement and Apache’s Trip to Redmond

02.29.08 Microsoft Rarely Before Seemed So Weak…

02.29.08 Who to Watch at Microsoft

03.03.08 What We Can Learn About Novell from Intel-Microsoft-Dell-Hewlett-Packard Collusions

03.04.08 A Quick Look at Microsoft Latest strategy Against GNU/Linux

03.04.08 What If Novell Did More Harm Than Good to the Linux Kernel?

03.07.08 Microsoft Now Tries to Invade Eclipse, Apache (Updated)

03.07.08 Quick Mention: Good Riddance to Bad Behaviour

03.08.08 Broken Promises: Microsoft Interoperability Already Broken (No GNU/Linux, No ODF)

03.11.08 Speculation: Who or What is Walli? (Or “How Microsoft Invades FOSS”)

03.12.08 Breaking Microsoft’s Two-pillar Strategy

03.13.08 Europe to Increase Use of Free Software, Lobbyists Try to Force Software Patents Onto Europe

03.17.08 Bill Gates Greases Up Politicians Again, Just Ahead of OOXML Vote

03.19.08 Microsoft Could Face Another Commission Assault Over Lack of Openness

03.20.08 Novell Takes Pride in Microsoft’s Taxoperability Precedence

03.21.08 Microsoft Corporation Becomes a Licensing Company, Adopts ‘Leech Strategy’

03.21.08 Why Novell is Bad for Linux: Reason #100 (Virtualisationovell-only)

03.22.08 Behind the OOXML “No” Vote in India Remains a Fiasco

03.22.08 It’s a Technical Thing, and OOXML is a Total Mess

03.24.08 Summary of Mono’s Danger to GNU/Linux and the Free Desktop

03.26.08 ‘Microsoft is Stealing from Linux’

03.27.08 Microsoft Invited Over to Enter the Gates and Serve the Bill

03.30.08 Microsoft’s Latest OOXML Corruptions in Germany, Croatia, Norway

04.01.08 Why the “New Microsoft” is the “Bully Microsoft”

04.03.08 Gartner et al Fixing the Price for the Entire Industry?

04.04.08 Return of the ‘Peter O’Kelly Mouthpiece’ and Why Microsoft Lost the Standards War

04.06.08 Microsoft Fires Up Proxy War Against Yahoo as Debt Looms Over

04.07.08 OOXML Protests Scheduled in Norway, Microsoft’s Reputation Claimed Tarnished

04.08.08 Patents World: A World Morbidly Obsessed with Money

04.16.08 Novell: Putting the Defeatism in GNU/Linux Since 2006

04.17.08 On Ron Hovsepian’s Latest GNU/Linux FUD

04.18.08 Microsoft Still Tries to Invade the Open Solutions Alliance

04.19.08 Why Again is the Novell/Microsoft Deal So Darn Ugly?

04.20.08 Microsoft Has a Reasonably Discriminatory Plan to Illegalise FOSS

04.21.08 The Linux Foundation and Novell (Plus Microsoft)

04.25.08 Quick Mention: Microsoft Intersection with the United States Government

04.28.08 In Microsoft Speak, “Open” Means No GNU/Linux or FOSS Support

04.29.08 Microsoft and Its Media Partner Lock #1 Competitor Out of the Olympics

04.29.08 FUD Warning: The Windows Vista ‘Fire-Fighting Squad’ Goes Loose Again

05.02.08 What Might Be Behind OpenBSD’s Attack Against Peers

05.02.08 An Open, Gentler Microsoft: The Best Illusion Only Novell Can Buy

05.06.08 Why Novell Became a Threat to Java and the GNU GPL

05.08.08 Intellectual Exclusion Makes Intellectual Abuse

05.10.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell’s Business Activities, Bar SUSE and GNU/Linux

05.12.08 Microsoft to FOSS Poster Child: Come And Join Hands with Us

05.14.08 Microsoft’s Latest Patent Cross-Licensing Deal and Software Patents in the EU

05.16.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell Board Shuffles, Deals and Partnerships

05.16.08 "/o/2008/05/16/patent-summary-eu-uk/ Patents Roundup: From the Fight Against EU Sanity to Novell, Microsoft, and Moonblight [sic]]

05.17.08 Competing by Crippling a Competitor’s Product

05.18.08 Mono Developers: From .NET Boosting to Java Bashing?

05.19.08 Microsoft is SourceForge Awards’ Only Sponsor, Uses it to Spread FUD

05.19.08 A Decade After US Anti-trust Ruling, Microsoft Likely to Topple Itself

05.20.08 HOWTO: NOT Protest Against Microsoft Corruption

05.21.08 Stormy Peters Comments on the Novell/Microsoft Deal and the Need for Vigilance

05.22.08 Groklaw: Microsoft’s ODF Moves Vapourware, Possible Trojan Horse for Software Patents

05.24.08 Quick Mention: Hungary and “Microsoft Corruption”

05.24.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell’s Latest Losses and Wins

05.24.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From A to C

05.25.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From [Denmark to [G]reece]

05.25.08 When Technology Meets Politics

05.26.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From [Hungary to [J]ordan]

05.26.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From [Thailand to [V]ietnam]

05.27.08 Dwindling Confidence in NewsForge

05.28.08 Moonlight: Patent Bait Inside Your GNU/Linux Distribution

05.28.08 "/o/2008/05/28/port-25-versus-gnu-linux/ Microsoft is Attacking GNU/Linux from Fort 25 [sic]]

05.28.08 Microsoft’s View of Standards

05.29.08 Matt Asay Misses the Point (on Why Free Software Hurts Microsoft the Most)

05.30.08 Susan Hauser, FUDMeister Extraordinaire

06.01.08 Novell’s Bold Mission to Clean Up ‘Unlicensed’ GNU/Linux

06.07.08 Microsoft Shows Bad Sportsmanship with Deliberate GNU/Linux Exclusion

06.13.08 If Microsoft’s Marketing Ploy Continues, “Open Source” is Passé

06.15.08 Trend Micro Soft Patent Against Lower-cost Competition

06.16.08 The Open Source ‘Census’ Lost Its Credibility

06.18.08 Microsoft Ruins “Open Source” from the Inside

06.20.08 OpenSUSE and the Novell/Microsoft Curse

06.22.08 Microsoft Jack: “Tilt Lotus Into the Death Spiral” Was Humour (Updated)

06.23.08 Does Microsoft Start Abusing the Word “Free”?

06.25.08 Microsoft Goes Fighting GNU/Linux in Open Source Conference

07.09.08 IBM Gets Its Microsoft-taxed GNU/Linux for the Mainframes

07.09.08 Microsoft and Citrix Celebrate Love After Vendor Capture (Xen)

07.14.08 Embracing and Extending Open Source from the Inside — Yes, Again

07.17.08 Why Microsoft Resorts to Dirty Tricks with Virtualisation

07.18.08 Press Coverage of SCO: Latest Summary

07.20.08 Microsoft: Its Party’s Over

07.23.08 Off Topic: Getting Worse For Microsoft… Before It Gets Any Better

07.23.08 Quick Mention: Microsoft’s President of Platforms & Services Quits

07.24.08 Sharing a Bed at OSCON with “the Next SCO Group”

07.25.08 Embracing and Extending OSCON

07.26.08 Microsoft Pays for a More Microsoft-Obedient Apache

07.28.08 Another Tough Weekend for Microsoft

07.29.08 Glyn Moody, Pam Jones: Apache Sponsorship Likely an Anti-GNU/Linux Move

07.31.08 Sam Ramji, the Man Who Wants to Politely Steal from GNU/Linux

08.01.08 Don’t Play Politics and Diplomacy with Microsoft

08.01.08 Never Let Them See You Sweat, Steve

08.02.08 The Curse of Money (or “Why Microsoft is Everywhere”)

08.03.08 Quick Mention: Microsoft. Anti-monopoly Lawsuit. China.

08.05.08 When All Merits Fail, Use an Intellectual Monopoly

08.05.08 Of Microsoft’s Plans for GNU/Linux and Tinfoil Hats

08.07.08 Microsoft’s Aggressive Push to Assimilate FOSS to Microsoft

08.07.08 Thoughts on What Microsoft Hides from Investors (Updated)

08.07.08 OSCON and Microsoft

08.15.08 Eye on Microsoft: More Lawsuits and a Very Grim Vista

08.20.08 Microsoft’s Darkest Crimes Remain Undiscovered, Unavailable

08.21.08 Coupons from Steve Capone

08.21.08 SCO and Microsoft/Novell: A Deja Vu

08.21.08 Can Germany Fine Microsoft for Slandering GNU/Linux?

08.23.08 Eye on Microsoft: Feeling the Heat (and Not Just Because It’s Summer)

08.25.08 Eye on Microsoft: Portugal Visit, Regrets, and Vista Lies

08.28.08 Forced Windows Purchases: A Decade Later, Still No Improvement

08.29.08 Eye on Microsoft: Intel Collaborations, Dumping, and Search Redux

08.29.08 Novell, the Microsoft Windows Company

08.31.08 Charles Pancerzewski and Microsoft Fraud Revisited (Updated)

09.01.08 On ‘Citizens’ Against Government Waste (CAGW), Microsoft, and Novell

09.01.08 Latest Microsoft Procurement Scandals: Hungary, Quebec, UAE

09.02.08 IBM Influence in Novell

09.04.08 Novell Could be Lying to Investors, Still Depends on Microsoft

09.06.08 Red Hat: Open Source Just a Hobby to Novell

09.07.08 BSA and Novell ♥ Software Patents, Microsoft

09.08.08 Eye on Microsoft: Failures on the Desktop, Server, Console, and Mobile

09.09.08 Microsoft Against Apple and Google, By Proxy?

09.10.08 Eye on Microsoft: From Failures to High-Tier Departures

09.10.08 Intellectual Monopolies: Microsoft, McCain, Trade Secrets, and Apple

09.11.08 Novell Keeps the Beast Happy

09.12.08 How Novell Learned to Stop Worrying About Microsoft FUD and Started Embracing It

09.13.08 Microsoft May Be Buying Its Competitors (Xen)

09.13.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Netware, Virtualisation, and Novellers

09.15.08 Companies That Fear GNU/Linux Versus Companies That Don’t

09.19.08 The EPO Crisis and Microsoft’s Patent Trolls

09.20.08 Eye on Microsoft: A Rainy Day in Redmond Town

09.25.08 Hello World

09.25.08 Eye on Microsoft: Assortment of Key Observations

10.01.08 Al Gillen (IDC) Once Again Throws FUD at Free Software and GNU/Linux

10.02.08 Eye on Microsoft: Various Picks from the Past Week

10.03.08 Microsoft is Exploiting Portuguese Taxpayers to Build Nation of ‘Addicts’

10.04.08 Who’s Bugging Google and Apple? (Updatedx2)

10.04.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Two Weeks of (Mostly) Proprietary Novell Technology

10.05.08 Internal, Financial, Prospective Problems at Microsoft

10.06.08 Eye on Microsoft: MSFT SInks ~7%, Some Products Declared “Dead”

10.06.08 Norway Changes OOXML Vote, Receives New Microsoft Search Base (Updatedx2)

10.06.08 Fool Us Once, Shame on Microsoft, Fool Us Twice…

10.11.08 Eye on Microsoft: Week of Hardships, a Digest

10.14.08 Eye on Microsoft: Being Booted from Land of the Lobby

10.17.08 Eye on Microsoft: Failed Products, Security Issues, and “7” Sins

10.17.08 King of Hypocrisy(ahoo!)

10.18.08 Microsoft Threatens Red Hat Again, Uses Novell as Excuse

10.22.08 Microsoft ‘Bribes’ Mac Bloggers to Slam Apple, Gartner Hosts Google FUD

10.23.08 Eye on Microsoft: A Black Screen of Death Ahead of Microsoft’s Results

10.24.08 Citrix, Microsoft and Novell Come Together

10.26.08 Microsoft Q1 2009: The Things Microsoft Does Not Tell About Its Continued Decline

10.28.08 It’s Not Bribery If It’s Just “Marketing Help”

10.29.08 Use of False Promises to Attract Free Software Developers

11.01.08 Microsoft: 800 lb. Guerrilla

11.02.08 IDC, Gartner and Yankee Group’s Latest Press Attack on Customer’s Competitors

11.05.08 ACTA: When Free Society Becomes Illegal

11.06.08 Eye on Microsoft: Windows Under Attack from Critics, Cyber Criminals; Yahoo! Besieged by Microsoft

11.07.08 Theft of Ideas, Followed by Patenting; Microsoft Sued Again

11.07.08 Microsoft is Not Interested in Interoperability. Free Labour on the Other Hand…

11.08.08 LG Tops Microsoft ‘s Linux Patent Deal with Memorandum of Understanding

11.12.08 Microsoft Calls It Open Source, But It’s Not

11.12.08 Novell Still Insults Competing GNU/Linux Distributions and Sun’s OpenOffice.org

11.15.08 James Plamondon: Microsoft Guerrilla

11.16.08 More Microsoft Jack Revisionism

11.17.08 William Poole of NComputing (Formerly Microsoft) Blamed in the Big Collusion

11.18.08 Microsoft Insults the People of China, Oman, the Newly-elected President

11.19.08 More Information About Microsoft’s and Intel’s Crimes Against Customers

11.20.08 Microsoft 2.0: A Company of Debt

11.24.08 Microsoft Chief Technical Officer Quits, Replacement Made for Another Quitting CEO, Operations Head Bumped

11.24.08 More Manipulation at Microsoft: Politics, ‘Charity’ for Automobiles, Media Coverage

11.24.08 Eye on Microsoft: Vista/7 Trouble and More Security Chaos

11.26.08 Eye on Microsoft: Fun with Windows, Malware, XBox360

11.30.08 Microsoft Hijacked Yahoo! from the Inside (Updated)

11.30.08 Stuffing It Up, Microsoft Edition

11.30.08 Microsoft’s Forecast Suffers Fresh Blow, Online Problems Linger on

12.01.08 A Gradual Fall of W|Intel… Thanks to OLPC?

12.02.08 FOSDEM 2009: Sponsored by Microsoft Partner

12.07.08 Microsoft’s DRM May Get More Aggressive, Apple Bullies to Defend DRM

12.08.08 Microsoft Chooses New Lobbying Director with “Strong Ties to Democrats”

12.10.08 Microsoft ‘Manages’ Journalists and Newspapers Ahead of Windows Vista Release

12.10.08 Gartner and Microsoft Negotiate Not Bashing Vista

12.12.08 World’s Computing Thugs Fight Governments and Continents

12.13.08 Novell Builds Bridges… for Microsoft to ‘Steal’ Open Source

12.13.08 Memo to Novell: Leave YouTube Alone

12.14.08 No Hope for Microsoft’s On-line Ambitions

12.15.08 Microsoft Under the Scalpel

12.15.08 Microsoft Wants One Throat to Choke

12.17.08 Quotes: A Few Things to Know About

12.18.08 Novell Employee Pushes OpenSUSE Announcement Into Linux/News Sites

12.19.08 Another Microsoft Vice President Calls It a Day, Quits

12.19.08 Microsoft FUD Alert

12.22.08 Noted: The Microsoft-Abramoff Connection

12.22.08 Eye on Microsoft: Opposition Links

12.23.08 On Being Rich… On Paper

12.25.08 Microsoft-Affiliated Site Removes Post About Bill Gates Weirdness

12.27.08 Former Microsoft Shill Openly Confesses, Alleges Microsoft Still Does This

12.30.08 Microsoft Executives Go Personal, Pay Obama Instead of Their Lobbyists

12.31.08 Allies of Microsoft Instruct Reporters What to Write About Virtualisation

01.01.09 Farewell, Zune?

01.01.09 Microsoft History of Exploiting Free Labour Repeats Itself

01.02.09 Noted: Indian Express and The Times About 15,000 Microsoft Jobs at Risk (Updated)

01.04.09 At Microsoft, “Fear Uncertainty Doubt (TALKING POINTS)” is Formal Strategy

01.04.09 Is Microsoft ‘Pulling an EDGI’ on Kerala? (Updated)

01.05.09 Microsoft Spreads Intellectual Monopolies as Business Model

01.05.09 Microsoft Accused of Profiteering ($1.5 Billion) from Crime with Intel

01.07.09 Quick Mention: Microsoft’s OLPC is About Selfishness, Gain, Neither Children Nor Education

01.07.09 Selling Out to a Company on the Decline

01.08.09 The Cost — and Cause — for Security Failure, Data Breaches

01.08.09 Microsoft’s Highly Confidential GNU/Linux Share Figures (2003)

01.08.09 Government Affairs or Just Cheating?

01.09.09 Extended Windows 98 EOL to Block Government Migrations to GNU/Linux and Free Software; More ‘Donations’

01.11.09 Microsoft on “Maintaining Gap vs Linux” Using “Patents“, “Children’s Software“

01.12.09 Bill Gates: “Where Are We on This Jihad?” (Against Linux at Intel)

01.12.09 The End of the Road for XBox, Zune, No New Products

01.12.09 Report: Microsoft Proxy Fight Against Yahoo! Still on

01.14.09 Microsoft’s Internal Presentation on How to Fight GNU/Linux

01.14.09 Microsoft Chief: “Under NO Circumstances Lose Against Linux”

01.16.09 Interlude: Microsoft Spins Out of Control

01.18.09 Quick Mention: Yahoo and Microsoft in Contact Again

01.19.09 Microsoft Enters Another Linux Conference, Changes to “Open Source” Agenda

01.24.09 Senator Criticises Microsoft for Betraying Americans (Update)

01.24.09 Microsoft Wants Music DRM Renaissance

01.24.09 The History of Microsoft’s Multi-boot Sabotage

01.24.09 DNS Suspended by Microsoft Windows Botnets

01.25.09 More Microsoft Cronies in United States Government, Other Companies

01.25.09 Wrap-Up of Microsoft’s Demise; Units Shut Down

01.26.09 Microsoft’s “Talking Point” Memo and the Anti-GNU/Linux Studies

01.28.09 “GNU/Linux ALREADY Kicks Windows to the Curb”

01.30.09 Microsoft on Intel’s Anti-Linux: “Please Keep Confidential. This is a Nightmare”

01.31.09 Bill Gates on Linux@Intel: “This Huge Driver Group Scares Me.”

02.02.09 How Music DRM Was Conceived at Microsoft Over a Decade Ago

02.05.09 Bill Gates Admits Microsoft’s Failure in Security, Gears Up for DRM

02.05.09 How Microsoft (with Novell) Subverts the Virtualisation Space to Harm Red Hat

02.06.09 Fortify, EMC and Microsoft’s Coalitions Against GNU/Linux

02.07.09 Microsoft Distorts the Linux and Virtualisation Markets

02.07.09 Microsoft Weaknesses as Told by the Press, Own Employees

02.08.09 66 Pages of Microsoft Evilness

02.09.09 Microsoft: The Cronies, the Pressure, and Staff Reductions

02.09.09 Why Moonlight is Not Free, and How Microsoft “Addicts” People

02.10.09 Impressed by OpenOffice, Bill Gates Schemes to Use Software Patents Against It

02.11.09 Bill Gates et al Lean on Other Companies to Derail GNU/Linux as “Main Stream Operating System”

02.11.09 Is Windows to Blame for Cracking of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)?

02.11.09 Microsoft: Intel Ain’t Done Until Windows Can Run?

02.12.09 Bill Gates: “Intel should not just treat us as one of many”

02.12.09 Microsoft’s Vice President of Spin Quits the Company

02.15.09 Microsoft Promotes, Punishes So-called ‘Pirates’; Promotes Slavery and Public Looting

02.16.09 Red Hat-Microsoft Agreement Not Malicious, But Was It Smart?

02.18.09 Ultimate Deathmatch: GNU/Linux Versus… Vapourware

02.19.09 Doomsday Part II: Microsoft Officially Kills Another Product, Cringely on 50,000 Microsoft Layoffs

02.21.09 If You Care About Freedom, Don’t Support Apple

02.21.09 Did Microsoft ‘Pull an EDGI’ on Catalonia’s GNU/Linux Migration Plan?

02.21.09 Summary of the Red Hat-Microsoft Story

02.23.09 Microsoft is Having Financial Problems

02.24.09 Confirmed: Microsoft is Deploying GNU/Linux Solutions

02.25.09 Confirmed: Microsoft OOXML a Security Hazard

02.26.09 Novell Results Are in: Net is Down Very Sharply (36%)

02.28.09 Yahoo CFO Invites Microsoft, Then Abandons Ship

02.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: All About SLES Virtualisation

02.28.09 Windows Vista Wins the “Great Fiasco Award”, Class Action Likely

03.02.09 GNU/Linux Market Share: Why Gartner and IDC Must be Ignored

03.02.09 Novell Committed to Microsoft Technologies, But Not so Much to Free Desktop (RadeonHD)

03.03.09 Microsoft Faces Investors’ Backlash, More Quiet Layoffs

03.04.09 Another Company Affiliated with Microsoft Sues Red Hat Using Software Patents

03.05.09 Microsoft to Grassley re Abramoff Visas: STFU

03.06.09 Further Cuts at Microsoft: Almost 20% Down in Some Outside Contracts

03.08.09 Microsoft Falls Further Behind in Mobiles, Consoles (Hardware), Thus Resorts to Patents

03.08.09 Windows Vista Breaks the Internet, Vista 7 Fixes Nothing and Meanwhile Windows Fades Up North

03.08.09 Were Yahoo and Lenovo Poisoned from the Inside?

03.09.09 Quote of the Day: Michael Tiemann on Microsoft

03.11.09 Korea Offers a Glimpse Into Intel’s Serious Crimes

03.11.09 Microsoft’s Patrícia Fernandes Fights GNU/Linux on Sub-notebooks, Vista 7 Deemed Unsuitable for the Task

03.14.09 Microsoft Loses to Google, Microsoft’s Anti-Google Lobby Unable to Change Laws Anymore

03.15.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, Linux, Acacia, Junk Patents, and Pseudo Reform

03.16.09 Microsoft Hopes a Tickbox Will Restore Fair Competition in Europe; Opera Disagrees

03.16.09 Microsoft, a Notorious Tax Evader, Takes Money from Taxpayers to Help Its Own Business (Updated)

03.17.09 Lesser Technical Dangers to the Triumph of GNU/Linux and Digital Freedom

03.18.09 Quick Mention: More on IDC as “Gun for Hire”

03.18.09 Novell and Microsoft Market Almost the Same Products Together

03.18.09 Novell Happy About KDE Bindings for Mono and .NET

03.22.09 A Deeper Look at TomTom’s Patent Case Against Microsoft

03.23.09 Microsoft’s Very Own “Death Spiral” (on the Web)

03.26.09 Is VMware Turning Into a Microsoft Subsidiary?

03.28.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 27th, 2009 – Part 2

03.30.09 Latest Signs That Microsoft Loses the Fight for the Web

03.31.09 Red Hat to Let Xen Drop After Microsoft Hijacked It

04.01.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 31st, 2009 – Part 1

04.01.09 (Former) Microsoft Employee Tells Why the Company is Doomed, Moves to GNU/Linux

04.03.09 The United States and Russia Take Extra Steps Against Microsoft’s Monopoly Abuse

04.04.09 TomTom Case is Closed, But the Fight Over FAT Can Hurt Microsoft

04.08.09 The Role of Mono and Moonlight Revisited

04.08.09 Microsoft Breaks the Law in Germany and Gets Convicted, Fined

04.09.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 8th, 2009 – Part 1

04.09.09 Microsoft’s Latest Assaults on GNU/Linux, Free Software, and Open Standards

04.12.09 Carol and Carl (Bartz and Icahn) Subscribe for the Assault on Google

04.14.09 Then They Lie, Then They Fight You, Then They Choose Your Products

04.16.09 Microsoft Tells Antitrust Regulators to Sod Off For Another Couple of Weeks

04.18.09 Microsoft is Blocking Google and Antitrust Regulators Let Microsoft off the Hook

04.22.09 Is Microsoft Paying Russia to Take Schools off GNU/Linux and Halt Antitrust Action?

04.24.09 The Curse of Windows-powered Sub-notebooks

04.24.09 It’s Unofficial: Microsoft Pays ASUS (Kickbacks) to Block GNU/Linux. Will EU Commission Step in?

04.25.09 Why the Future Looks Not Bright for Microsoft

04.25.09 The Bully Says It Wants to be Open Source and ODF Friend

04.26.09 Microsoft, Google Sued; Microsoft Funds Legal Action Against Google

04.26.09 Microsoft Attacks GNU/Linux (Pardus) in Turkey, Dumps on Students

05.02.09 Microsoft Shoves Internet Explorer 8 Down Users’ Throats, But What About Choice?

05.02.09 Is Netcraft Promoting Microsoft Just Like Net Applications?

05.03.09 Microsoft’s Online Business is Crumbling Even Further

05.04.09 Microsoft Fights to Make GNU/Linux a Fringe Phenomenon

05.04.09 Subject: [PATCH Add CONFIG_MONO_NO_CREATE WITH_MS_PATENTS option]

05.05.09 Microsoft Cuts 5,000 Staff, More Likely to Come

05.06.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: May 6th, 2009 – Part 2

05.06.09 Massive Layoffs at Microsoft

05.08.09 Microsoft Moonlight in the News

05.08.09 Microsoft + “Open” Attack GNU/Linux and “Free” (as in Free Speech)

05.08.09 UK-IPO Approves Software Patent as Microsoft and its Lobbies Pressure for Software Patents in EU

05.09.09 Opera Complains About Vista 7

05.10.09 Vista 7 is Free (as in Free Tobacco) for One Year

05.11.09 Is Microsoft Blocking the United Kingdom’s Free Software Policy by Dumping?

05.11.09 Will Microsoft Sign an MOU with Indonesia?

05.11.09 Microsoft’s ‘ODF Patent’ as Vacuous as Its Promise of Interoperability

05.12.09 Microsoft Debt and Tax Evasion

05.12.09 Did Microsoft Bribe Its Way Into Kicking GNU/Linux out of South African Schools?

05.13.09 EU Commission Tells Intel to Obey the Law (Video)

05.17.09 Gnote Enters Debian, UbuntuOne Has No Mono

05.18.09 A Look at Microsoft’s Uneven Layoff Patterns Around the Globe, More Likely Coming

05.20.09 The EU Council Answers Marco Cappato’s Question About Microsoft Dependence vs. Europe’s IT Independence

05.20.09 Jonathan Zuck (ACT) Jumps to Defend Intel for Committing Same Crimes as Microsoft

05.20.09 Time Calls Windows Vista the “Biggest Tech Failure of the Last Decade”

05.22.09 Microsoft is Again Paying the Huge Price for Wanting Anti-Free Software Laws

05.24.09 Microsoft Goes Political

05.24.09 Reader Explains “Microsoft Innovation”

05.24.09 Microsoft Sued Over Its Corruption in Switzerland, Microsoft Debt Revisited

05.25.09 At Microsoft, Interoperability Sabotage Goes All the Way to the Top

05.26.09 Microsoft’s Latest Netbooks Collusion and Attack on Spanish and Australian Education

05.27.09 Intel Allegedly Colludes with Microsoft (Again) to Elevate Profit, Promote Windows

05.27.09 New Speculations About Microsoft Buying Citrix or Grabbing Yahoo! Search

05.29.09 Bingeing with Microsoft and Ruining the Environment

05.29.09 Oh Loh! SourceForge Buys Former Microsoft Employees

05.30.09 ASUS Enters the Slog Business

05.31.09 Microsoft Employees and Partners Start Attacking ODF in Public

05.31.09 Microsoft’s Numbers a Lot Worse Than IDC Tells

05.31.09 Head of Microsoft Philippines Ditches the Company, More Layoffs Revealed (But Microsoft Withholds Details)

05.31.09 The GNU/Linux-Hostile MSCOSCONF Event (Mis)Uses the “Open Source” Brand

06.01.09 Microsoft-Influenced Net Applications Won’t Share Its Data

06.01.09 Today’s Vista 7 Links

06.02.09 Mono: An Infectious Disease — An Article by Chris Smart

06.02.09 More Suspicious Moves from ASUS

06.03.09 “Decisions Engine” Means Microsoft Decides What You Should Think

06.03.09 What Microsoft’s Anti-Linux Taskforce in Wal-Mart Teaches Us About Sub-notebooks

06.04.09 Hungary Makes ODF a National Standard

06.04.09 Wind River Acquired by Convicted Criminal Organisation

06.05.09 Microsoft is Using Mono and MonoDevelop to Leverage Windows and .NET

06.05.09 Details of Microsoft’s Lobbying in Europe

06.06.09 When Microsoft AstroTurfers Are Masquerading as GNU/Linux Users

06.06.09 Does Microsoft Corrupt the Term “Netbook” to Belittle GNU/Linux on ARM?

06.08.09 What Microsoft Did to MKV, US Policy

06.08.09 Perception Management at Microsoft, Using Web Agents

06.09.09 From Live Search to Dead Search (aka “Bing”)

06.10.09 Microsoft’s FUD Against GNU/Linux on Sub-notebooks Enters Next Level

06.11.09 How Microsoft Failed to Work with Free Software

06.15.09 ‘Our Governments Just Aren’t Engineered for Security’

06.15.09 Microsoft’s Anti-Google Whisper Campaign

06.17.09 Microsoft and Novell Share a Goal of Eliminating Free GNU/Linux, Imposing Software Patents

06.18.09 Microsoft on Competition: “We Need to Create the Reputation for Problems and Incompatibilities to Undermine Confidence”

06.19.09 MSNBC Manipulated Story to Hide Microsoft’s Extensive Use of Free Software

06.20.09 The Rumours May be True: Novell’s Financial Officer Talks About Selling Parts of Novell

06.22.09 Microsoft Brings ‘American EDGI’ to Illinois, Virginia, and Indiana

06.23.09 Bill Gates Mocks Free Software by Substituting “Proprietary” With “Commercial”

06.24.09 Bill Gates on C# as “Key Element in Preventing Commodization by Linux”

06.24.09 Microsoft Betrays American Workers and Rewards Irish Workers for Tax Haven

06.24.09 The More Aggressive They Get, the Most Troubled They Are

06.27.09 T3 Receives Millions from “Unnamed Entity” After Microsoft Investment, to Attack GNU/Linux on Mainframes

06.27.09 Vista 7: Disablement as a Business Model

06.29.09 Microsoft Prepares a Bogus Study to Defend Abandonment of American Workforce

07.01.09 Who Promotes Mono? Microsoft and Novell

07.01.09 MSCOSCONF ‘Winner’ is a Marketing Guy, Attacks FOSS

07.11.09 Does Microsoft Struggle to Find Leaders for Vista 7?

07.12.09 Lenovo Wants GNU/Linux Users to Pay Microsoft for Imaginary Patents

07.12.09 Mono Roundup: Microsoft Following, Deception, and the Moonlight ‘Extend’ Phase

07.15.09 ASUS — Like Microsoft — Uses ‘Contests’ to Conceal AstroTurfing (Blog Posts in Exchange for Incentives)

07.15.09 Journal Confirms Microsoft Looks to Shed Over 2,000 Employees, Microsoft Employee Thinks 15,000 More Should be Let Go

07.15.09 Leaked Microsoft Slides (2003): How to Win Against GNU/Linux

07.16.09 How Microsoft Sabotages GNU/Linux Adoption in Russian Schools

07.17.09 Free Software Foundation Discourages Dependence on Mono, Dismisses Microsoft Community Promise

07.17.09 GPL and Stallman FUD Now Arriving from the Freedom-apathetic or Freedom-hostile

07.17.09 Why the Melco-Microsoft Deal is a Form of Racketeering

07.17.09 Microsoft CEO Admits That Vista 7 is Just Vapourware, Opera Complaints About It

07.18.09 Treasonous Melco-Microsoft Linux Deal Already Costing Melco Business

07.19.09 The Ukraine’s GNU/Linux Ambitions and Microsoft’s MOU Response

07.20.09 The Problems with Attempted Office Shift to the Web

07.21.09 The Attitude Says It All

07.23.09 Why Linux Did Not Need Microsoft’s Code Injection

07.24.09 The Impact of GNU/Linux on Microsoft’s Sharply-declining Numbers

07.24.09 Microsoft Claims GPL Compliance Came Before Any Violation Claims

07.26.09 Linux Demonstrates the Upper Hand of the GPL and Microsoft’s Inability to Defeat It

07.27.09 Antitrust: How Microsoft Used Kickbacks (“Referral Programs”) to Advance Its Inferior Products

07.28.09 GNU/Linux is Shrinking Microsoft’s Margins

07.28.09 Microsoft Stresses Future Products While GNU/Linux and SaaS Eliminate Microsoft’s Profitability

07.28.09 Brainwash Firm Waggener Edstrom and Microsoft Share More Staff (Updated)

07.29.09 How Microsoft Uses Linux Conference Sponsorships to Advance Its Agenda

07.29.09 Microsoft’s Proxy Fight Against Yahoo! Turns it to Puppet State

07.31.09 The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to Dump Novell

07.31.09 The Slime About ARM and Android

08.01.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE, Scalix and eApps

08.01.09 The Ugly Reality of the Yahoo-Microsoft Deal

08.03.09 Microsoft’s Attack on GNU/Linux Extends to an Attack on Affordable PCs

08.03.09 Net Applications Finally Shows It’s Just a Joke: Mac ‘Market Share’ Halved Overnight!

08.04.09 Microsoft Only Gave 14,010 Lines of Code

08.05.09 Fake Reporters, Microsoft, Apple, and the FTC

08.05.09 Why GNU/Linux is Microsoft’s #1 Desktop Threat, Shareholders Are Finally Being Informed

08.06.09 What a Difference a Decade Makes

08.06.09 How GNU/Linux Devoured Microsoft’s Business Model

08.06.09 Microsoft Confirms Existence of Anti-GNU/Linux Teams

08.07.09 Microsoft May Have Found Company to Pass 2,000+ Employees to; Vista 7 Can Finish Microsoft

08.10.09 More Dead (or Dying) Microsoft Products

08.10.09 The Golden Flying Chairlet Awards

08.10.09 The Google-Microsoft Tensions Revisited

08.10.09 Microsoft’s CFO Sells MSFT

08.11.09 Collusion Against GNU/Linux and Sub-notebooks: Part II

08.16.09 Does the Intel/Microsoft Relationship Qualify as a Cartel?

08.19.09 Eye on Microsoft: Windows Mobile Failure, Server 2008/Vista Failure, and Vista 7 Failure by Design

08.22.09 Is Windows Mobile Being Replaced by Linux or by Ballnux?

08.23.09 Microsoft and the Publishing Industry as Inseparable

08.25.09 Comes: Microsoft’s Anti-GNU/Linux Presentation and Explanation of Bribery

08.26.09 Bill Gates Called “LUNIX” a Threat Back in 1997

08.26.09 Microsoft Declares Vista 7 Ultimate Extras Dead

08.29.09 Microsoft and Its Followers Compare Free Software to Terrorism

08.31.09 Apple Connected to AstroTurfing Agency Reverb Communications

09.02.09 Microsoft’s Bing Spams Web Sites with Referrer SPAM and Net Applications Lies Again

09.04.09 Google — Like Mozilla — Sheds Off Some Microsoft Impact

09.04.09 Microsoft’s Latest Anti-GNU/Linux Moves Are Sign of Agony

09.05.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLES/SLED and Xandros in the News

09.07.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft. Apple, TiVo, IBM, and Lots More

09.07.09 Microsoft, the Broadcasting Company

09.11.09 Trouble in Novell/Microsoft Paradise

09.12.09 Where Apple Resembles Microsoft

09.12.09 Why Microsoft’s CodePlex Foundation is a Promoter of Proprietary Software

09.14.09 Comes Antitrust: How Microsoft Schemed to Destroy Borland (Like It Did Yahoo!)

09.14.09 Why is Microsoft’s Management Getting Out of Microsoft?

09.16.09 Vista 7 Hype is Torn Apart, One ‘Feature’ at a Time

09.17.09 Microsoft’s Nathan Myhrvold in 1998: GNU/Linux is a “Serious Competitor”

09.18.09 Fox ‘News’ Brings Microsoft to “Open Source”

09.18.09 Microsoft Openly Admits Vista is Not Good; Vista 7 Likely the Same

09.18.09 No Patches for Windows Vista and Server 2008 as Exploit Surfaces; Gartner Lies for Microsoft

09.21.09 Microsoft Cheats and Bribes Again to Distort the Reality Regarding Vista 7

09.21.09 Microsoft and the OLPC Strategy, as Interpreted by a Reader

09.23.09 Linux ‘Bloated’ Claims Came from Novell, Debunked

09.23.09 Microsoft Tax Avoidance, by the Numbers

09.24.09 IBM Pressured to Help Advance Desktop GNU/Linux in the West

09.25.09 DON’T Boycott Ubuntu

09.27.09 Microsoft Kills Another Product and May Alienate Partners

09.27.09 LiMo Phones to Avoid: Vodafone 360 H1 (Samsung)

09.28.09 IBM Blasts Microsoft for Spreading “Fabricated” Figures

09.28.09 Microsoft’s Google Chase Gets Harder

09.28.09 Microsoft Offers Gentle Bribes to People Who Mention Vista 7 in Twitter

09.28.09 Microsoft Confirms Windows Mobile Has Kill Switch and Remote Deletion Built in

09.30.09 Freedom and the Fallacy of Market Share

09.30.09 Google Cracks SharePoint and Office Lock-in, Microsoft Still Morbidly Obsessed with GNU/Linux

10.02.09 Another Microsoft Product Gets Buried: Recite

10.03.09 Linux Hatred is a Disease

10.03.09 Latest Dead Products, Delays, and Descends at Microsoft

10.03.09 Reader’s Contribution: The Register Sells Out to Microsoft and Novell

10.04.09 The Continued Effect of Microsoft Antitrust Violations

10.04.09 Pay Cuts at Microsoft, Downgrade

10.06.09 1st, 3rd, and 4th Top-selling Laptops in Amazon Germany Come with GNU/Linux

10.06.09 Jose Socrates Caves to His Friend Bill Gates and Gives up Portugal’s Digital Sovereignty

10.06.09 Linux Climbs Fast in Mobile, Microsoft ‘Screws’ Badly with Windows Mobile 6.5

10.06.09 Microsoft Carries on Abusing Web Standards with Novell’s Help

10.07.09 Richard Stallman Defended in Argument with Novell VP

10.08.09 Microsoft Wins Free Software-Hostile Deal in Europe, Its Front Group ACT Pleased

10.09.09 Microsoft Adds Product Delays and Vapourware

10.11.09 Even Some Big Windows Fans Worry About Vista 7

10.11.09 Microsoft’s PR Department Waggener Edstrom Dishonestly Handles Damage Control

10.12.09 Company CEO Finds Out Why Windows 7 is Called Vista 7

10.15.09 Microsoft Hooks up with the Press and the Government to Cement Protectionist Measures

10.18.09 Microsoft Analysts Mock Free Software and Praise Vista 7

10.19.09 The Microsoft ‘Mouthpiece Theatre’ Starts the Vista 7 Marketing Blitz

10.19.09 Microsoft Works to Eliminate FOSS/GNU/Linux in Kenya, Maryland, and Illinois

10.19.09 Google Continues Eating Microsoft’s Lunch

10.21.09 Mono Programs Removed from gNewSense

10.22.09 Microsoft Employee Wants the Company to Fire 20,000 More Staff

10.24.09 Chinese and Latvian Governments Promote Free(dom) Software and GNU/Linux

10.24.09 Vista 7 Launch Said to Have Failed

10.26.09 Goldman Sachs and Microsoft Top Obama Funders

10.26.09 Microsoft/Icahn’s Coup Against Yahoo! and Yang is Done

10.26.09 Microsoft’s Gadgets and Consoles Still Ridiculed and Avoided

10.26.09 Microsoft Layoffs Rumoured (November 4th) After Bad Results

10.26.09 What Went Wrong with Vista 7 Launch (and How GNU/Linux Already Takes Advantage)

10.29.09 Comes: Microsoft’s Push-Polling in Order to Exclude Rival Web Browsers from Windows

10.30.09 Vista 7 Even Worse Than Vista in Some Ways — Claim

10.31.09 The Guardian Tells Microsoft’s Lies

10.31.09 The Failures of Vista 7 Lead to Increased Exploration of GNU/Linux

11.01.09 Resistance to Propaganda from Seattle and IDC; Microsoft Staff Makes a Move

11.02.09 Response to The Guardian’s Boosting of Vista 7 (Including Transcript)

11.04.09 New Problems at Novell: Media Backlash, Layoffs, Pension Takeaways

11.04.09 Orwellian EIF, Fake Open Source, and Security Implications

11.05.09 Andrew Cuomo Should Sue and Punish Microsoft for Same Crimes as Intel

11.05.09 Confirmed: Microsoft Publicly Lies About Market Share of GNU/Linux

11.05.09 Universities up for Sale; Can Martin Bean Keep Google Away?

11.06.09 Is Microsoft Planning a Coup in Brazil?

11.06.09 Vista 7 Sales Not Good, Microsoft Does Not Want to Talk About It

11.07.09 Computer Shop: Acer Tells Windows Sales Flat Despite Vista 7

11.07.09 Microsoft Pretends It Invented Office Suites, Obtains Another Patent on OOXML

11.07.09 Ubuntu 9.10 Works Well (and So Does the Microsoft Propaganda Machine)

11.09.09 Some New Examples of FUD Against Linux, GNU, and the GPL

11.09.09 Microsoft Keeps Shutting Dubai, MoU Roadshow Reaches Taiwan

11.09.09 Google Disrupts Microsoft Cash Cows

11.11.09 IDG OpenMic Should be Renamed OpenMicrosoft

11.12.09 Microsoft Actions — Not Free Software Proponents — Are Harming FOSS

11.16.09 More Marshall Projects (MoU), This Time in China

11.16.09 Survey: Vista 7 Disliked by Sub-notebooks Buyers, GNU/Linux Emerges as a Winner

11.16.09 Microsoft DRM Cracked Within Hours

11.18.09 Revisionism and Moles in Land of the Fee

11.19.09 The Quest to Daemonise Critics of Microsoft

11.20.09 Hypothesis: Mono Proponents Will Replace GIMP with Paint.NET

11.21.09 European Commission Keeps Getting Filled with Microsoft Cronies

11.21.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLES and Samsung’s Bada, Enlightenment

11.23.09 Google’s (Staff) Index Poisoned by Microsoft

11.23.09 Novell’s Vice President Could be Tweeting for Microsoft Dollars

11.25.09 Boycott Google, Says Microsoft to Publishers

11.30.09 Why Microsoft’s Murdoch Tactic is Similar to SCO

12.01.09 Pressure Mounts on Bill and Steve to Repay Stolen Money

12.02.09 Eye on Microsoft: “Protection Racket”, Lack of Security

12.03.09 Microsoft About Anti-Google “Bribes”: Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off

12.04.09 Scarcity vs Abundance: Microsoft and Copyright Cartel vs the World and the People

12.04.09 Vista 7 — Just Like Vista — Resorts to Corny Bus Promotion

12.10.09 Gates/Microsoft Tax Dodge and Agriculture Monopoly Revisited

12.11.09 Tax Dodger Microsoft Wants Linux to Pay Microsoft Tax for Storage Devices

12.14.09 Google is Still Crushing Microsoft, Sometimes with GNU and Linux

12.14.09 Don’t Mention the L Word!

12.17.09 Eben Moglen Sets Record Straight Regarding Microsoft/Novell After Novell Lied

12.17.09 Microsoft Smears — Not Embraces — Free Software Projects

12.18.09 European Commission Plans to Allow Patent Imperialism, Authorises Microsoft’s Attack on Free Software

12.18.09 Microsoft-Funded Press Belittles Microsoft Crimes

12.18.09 “GPL is Scary!! Please Buy Our Products”

12.19.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLES in IBM Mainframes and HP, Other Ballnux Distributions (Bada)

12.19.09 Simon Phipps: “Linux is No Longer Important Enough to Justify a Business Unit at Novell”

12.20.09 ‘Microsoft Press’ Acknowledges Microsoft’s Free Software-Hostile EU Deal

12.20.09 Hungary Pulls Ahead of the UK in Open Standards Adoption

12.21.09 Oracle Likely to Own MySQL Shortly, European Commission’s Credibility at Stake

12.21.09 Google and Microsoft Fight Over Data and Contracts

12.21.09 IDC Speculation That Vista 7 is Last PC Operating System from Microsoft, Windows Mobile 7 Already Slips

12.24.09 Miguel de Icaza: “We Have Removed All of the GPL Code” (MonoDevelop)

12.27.09 Companies That Facilitate Microsoft’s Linux Extortion Still Close Partners of Microsoft

12.27.09 Vista 7 Limitations, Compatibility Issues, and Hype from the Microsoft Ecosystem

12.29.09 Microsoft’s Racketeering with Patents and Abolition of Software Patents Reexamined

12.29.09 DRI CEO: “The Biggest Risk Was That Microsoft Would Come Hell-Bent to Destroy Us… Not Necessarily by Competing”

12.30.09 Microsoft’s EDGI Still Alive, Under “Linux and Open Office Compete”

01.01.10 Novell’s Christmas Presents for Microsoft

01.02.10 Microsoft and the MSBBC Say Sub-notebooks Are Dying So It Must be True

01.03.10 Microsoft Bribes to Make Education Microsoft-based

01.05.10 Former Microsoft Partner/Ally Gives Microsoft Competitor (Zimbra) to Former Microsoft Employees

01.06.10 Microsoft’s Puppy, Fortify, Attacks Android (Linux) Over E-reader ‘Security’

01.07.10 Microsoft’s Kevin Turner Apparently Still in Charge of Anti-GNU/Linux Strategies

01.08.10 Microsoft Accused of Dumping and Using “Scare Campaign” to Block Existing Migrations to OpenOffice.org

01.08.10 Microsoft’s Home State is Running Out of Money While Microsoft Avoids Paying Tax

01.09.10 Transcript of The Guardian’s 10-Minute Microsoft ‘Advert’

01.09.10 Patents Roundup: Patent Backlash, Microsoft DRM Patents in USPTO, Software Patents in Israel Revisited

01.11.10 Microsoft Recruits Partners to Fight Against Google

01.11.10 Microsoft Demoted in IT Leaders League, Ranked Second-Worst Polluter/Environmental Hazard

01.11.10 Microsoft Attempts to Freeze Mobile Market to Harm Linux

01.11.10 Quote of the Day: “Microsoft is Eaten up with Middle-to-upper Management Cliques”

01.11.10 Latest Vista 7 Failures and Microsoft Dumping

01.11.10 Microsoft’s Latest Security Failures on the Web

01.14.10 Another Anti-GNU/Linux Microsoft SVP Quits the Company

01.15.10 Microsoft Flaws — Not Adobe Flaws — Responsible for China’s Attack on Google; Microsoft Takes China’s Side, as Usual

01.17.10 Microsoft Takes Responsibility for Internet Explorer Chaos, Conficker Damage Carries on

01.18.10 BBC: Bill Gates a “Famous Thief”?

01.19.10 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Keeps Ruining (to Exploit) the Patent System, USPTO’s Purpose in Greater Doubt, Cisco Surrenders to Trolls

01.20.10 Obama Finally Slams the USPTO, But Parrots Talking Point from Microsoft and Intellectual Monopolists

01.20.10 New Opinions on Mono, Miguel de Icaza, and the “Windows Stratagem”

01.21.10 Microsoft-Sponsored Obama Administration Told by Microsoft to Make Snoops Easier

01.23.10 Another Microsoft Vice President Abandons the Company

01.23.10 Arianna Huffington and the Gates Family Make a Killing

01.24.10 Eye on Apple, Microsoft: Failures and Envy

01.24.10 Huffington Post Lets Microsoft Lie and Lie and Lie

01.25.10 Microsoft Takes the Axe to Another Product, Future Grim Based on CES

01.25.10 Microsoft Fights Google with More FUD, Lawsuits, and Lobbying

01.25.10 Microsoft Escapees Find New Hosts to Damage Society From

01.26.10 Rich Uncle Bill Comes to Visit the New York Times

01.27.10 Microsoft, Intel, and White-collar Crime

01.27.10 Microsoft to Spy on Indians, Bank Accounts, Health Records (and Conduct Profiling of Customers)

01.27.10 Chief Microsoft Lobbyist Bill Gates Goes on Anti-Google Tour in the Press

01.28.10 Novell is Still Promoting Microsoft SharePoint™ and Silverlight™

01.29.10 Microsoft is Lying About Vista 7 Sales, Bloat

02.02.10 Microsoft Exposé Taken Up a Notch

02.03.10 Relationships Map

02.03.10 Vista 7: The Battery Guzzler

02.07.10 iPad is Like Zune

02.07.10 Michael Arrington a Hypocrite: Bribed by Microsoft Yet Fires Bribed Bloggers

02.07.10 Microsoft Shows Yet Again That It is Allergic to GNU/Linux

02.09.10 Microsoft’s Hostile Takeover of the Healthcare System

02.09.10 Eye on Microsoft: Signs of Game Over

02.09.10 Windows ‘Battery Killer’ (Vista 7) Also Has USB Data Transfer Issues and Stability Problems, Does Not Sell Well

02.10.10 Microsoft Blogs Lie to the Public About Search Market

02.14.10 Patents Roundup: Escalations in Europe, SAP Pretense, CCIA Goes Wrong, and IETF Opens Up

02.16.10 Did Microsoft Pay Millions of Dollars to Hide Information About Financial Malpractice?

02.17.10 Nobody is Born a Microsoft Employee

02.18.10 Business Software Alliance (BSA) is Not Good for Free Software

02.19.10 Bill Gates Slammed for Global Warming Debate Aversion, Conspiracy to Defraud Taxpayers

02.22.10 Microsoft’s Gadgets/Hardware Business is Collapsing (Zune, Xbox, Mobile)

02.22.10 Microsoft Crawls Into Bed With Washington, Seattle Times Still in Denial

02.23.10 Microsoft’s Deal With Amazon is Extortion and Should Get Reported

02.23.10 Boycott Amazon

02.23.10 Novell is Already Poisoning MeeGo With Microsoft Trojan Horses

02.23.10 Microsoft Takes Over Yahoo! Search to Increase Brainwash of the Public

02.24.10 When Microsoft Racketeering Meets Apathy

02.25.10 Microsoft Unleashes the Hounds on Google While Abusing the Law With Warrantless Spying

02.26.10 New Cartoon: How Microsoft Robs the Nation

03.01.10 Intel Unhappy With Failed Migration to Vista 7, Radical Microsoft Spin Begins

03.01.10 Proprietary Software Encourages Breaking of the Law

03.01.10 Microsoft is ‘Spamming’ the Government Using Many Identical Letters (Literally Hundreds of Them)

03.01.10 Windows Mobile is Dying as More Major Developers Officially Abandon

03.04.10 Firm Behind Novell Bid Has Shady Past, Could be Tied to Microsoft (Paul E. Singer’s ‘Vulture Fund’)

03.07.10 Vulture Fund Still the Only Bidder for Novell

03.07.10 Microsoft Catch-up, Apple Lock-up, and GNU/Linux Freedom

03.08.10 Microsoft to Use FDA Official to Take Over Patient Records in the United States

03.09.10 IDG Gives a Platform for Microsoft’s Familiar Attack Dogs (and Former Employees) to Smear GNU/Linux

03.10.10 Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Extortionists With Software Patents

03.12.10 Patents Roundup: Both Apple and Microsoft Use Software Patents Against GNU/Linux, Get Sued for Violation Along With Google and Facebook; Amazon-USPTO Comedy Resumes

03.13.10 Patents Roundup: Acacia, i4i, Tuxera, Monsanto, Apple, and Microsoft

03.14.10 Apple Makes Toys, GNU/Linux Still Ahead of It

03.16.10 New Theory That Microsoft Played Role in Apple’s Lawsuit Against Linux and Against Google

03.16.10 Microsoft ‘Pulls a SCO’ in India (Against GNU/Linux)

03.16.10 Microsoft Happy About Apple’s Invocation of Software Patents Against GNU/Linux

03.16.10 Government Should Avoid Proprietary Software and ‘Clouds’

03.17.10 More Evidence of Potential Microsoft Involvement in Apple-HTC Lawsuit Against Linux/Android (and Microsoft Loses to Virnetx)

03.18.10 Former Microsoft Employees and Boosters Call Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza and Other Microsoft Apologists “Most Powerful Voices” in Open Source

03.19.10 Unsolicited Mail from Microsoft Canada Wants Developers to Create/Increase Government’s Windows Lock-in

03.21.10 Jerry Seinfeld Makes “Lousy Celebrity Endorsement” for Microsoft After Reportedly Dumping Windows

03.22.10 Microsoft and Apple Still Intend to Use Software Patents Against GNU/Linux

03.22.10 Government Cronyism Watch: Microsoft Inside FCC, California, Washington, and Bahrain

03.22.10 Microsoft Proxy Fights Against Google in the United States

03.24.10 Amazon Pushes Ridiculous Software Patents Into Europe

03.24.10 How Articles About Novell Turn Into Promotion of Its Spouse, Microsoft

03.29.10 Microsoft Services Cyber Crime

03.29.10 Misleading PR Campaign From Microsoft About “Open Source”

04.03.10 Microsoft Hijacks “Open Source” From GNU/Linux Just Like It Hijacked “Standards”

04.06.10 How Microsoft Quietly Takes Over Yahoo! Search, in Coup D’état Fashion

04.10.10 Microsoft’s Battle to Consume — Not Obliterate — Open Source

04.15.10 The High Cost of Disposable Proprietary Products

04.17.10 IDG ‘Forgets’ to Name Microsoft for Bending “Open Source”

04.18.10 United States Government Looking to Recruit Microsoft to Brainwash the Public for Big Banks

04.19.10 Ina Fried Receives Microsoft Payback as Gates’ Reputation Laundering Tour Kicks Off in US Colleges

04.21.10 Smearing Free Software is a Terrible Business/Marketing Strategy

04.25.10 Microsoft Cumulative Debt Almost Doubles to About $80 Billion in Just a Few Years (Updated)

04.26.10 Microsoft Targets Politicians

04.28.10 Chem4Word Should Support Free Software Platforms/Office Suites to Better Qualify as Free Software

04.30.10 Does Android’s Chief Compare Steve Jobs to North Korea’s Dead Leader (Kim Il-sung)?

05.03.10 Another Microsoft Product Dies Because of GNU/Linux That Allegedly Replaces It

05.06.10 After Acacia Case Red Hat is Free, SUSE is Still Not Free

05.07.10 When Brands Become Cults

05.09.10 The Wrong rPath to Microsoft

05.12.10 20-Year Microsoft Veteran Becomes HP Vice President in Charge of Software and Solutions Business

05.12.10 Microsoft Loses Market Share in Search, Exploits Yahoo! Some More, Exploits Linux/Android Phones, and Harvests Many People’s Data

05.13.10 Microsoft is Against Open Access, Pro DRM

05.19.10 The Microsoft/Novell Mono Lobby

05.21.10 Microsoft Lied About Vista for Several Years and It is Now Lying About Vista 7

05.24.10 Microsoft is Lobbying in the United States and Buying Montana Brains

05.24.10 Microsoft’s Cloudy Skies Over Norway

05.25.10 Windows News: Vista is Bad, Vista 7 is Not Secure, Vista 8 MIA

05.25.10 GNU/Linux Versus Microsoft Entryism Challenges

05.25.10 Microsoft Attacks Linux Competition Using Lawsuits and Threats (With Software Patents), Pays Acacia/IP Innovation After Anti-Linux Lawsuit

05.26.10 Inside-trading Microsoft President Quits the Company, Allard Does Too

05.28.10 How to Kill a Software Company (Picture)

05.30.10 Ron Hovsepian’s Scorecard

05.30.10 Robotics Chief Tandy Trower Left Microsoft, Entryism Still Eyed at Cisco, AOL (Updated)

05.31.10 Microsoft is Right. The Slate is Nice. (With Linux)

05.31.10 Microsoft and GOP (Republicans) Collaborate on Site, Taxpayers Pay for Microsoft to Keep and Restrict Access to NASA Data

05.31.10 The BBC and Netflix Enter Microsoft’s DRM Bedroom, Again

06.01.10 Proponents of Microsoft Come to Grips With Microsoft’s Sheer Aggression Using Software Patents

06.01.10 Microsoft Has Your Facebook and Twitter Data, Tightens Relationship With Those Companies

06.01.10 More Microsoft Products May be Axed After Microsoft Exodus, Other Trouble

06.02.10 IDG Approaches Microsoft-Funded and Microsoft-Hired ‘Analysts’ (Without Disclosure) to Defend Windows Security

06.02.10 Steve, Steve, and Steven

06.03.10 Why the Free Software/Open Source Community Does Not Love Apple and is Already Ahead of Apple

06.05.10 Microsoft Finds Out That Bribing Doesn’t Work in the Long Term, Neither Against Google Nor GNU/Linux

06.06.10 Gartner Group Urged Businesses to Move to Vista, Now It Does the Same With Vista 7

06.06.10 As Xbox 360 Abandoned by Managers, Sony Gains, Microsoft Sued for Faulty Xbox 360 Hardware, and Bungie Gets Betrayal

06.07.10 “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Owns Over 7 Million Shares of BP”

06.07.10 Desktop GNU/Linux Does Not Need ‘Saving’

06.07.10 Wishy-Washy ‘Open Source’ Microsoft

06.07.10 Microsoft Has Already Hurt LinuxTag by Paying It

06.07.10 Windows Insecurity Spreads From Desktop to Mobile, Which Fails Badly for Microsoft

06.08.10 Transformation of Form Factors Leaves Microsoft Behind and GNU/Linux Well Ahead

06.08.10 AOL Takeover by Microsoft is Just a Rumour from One Unnamed Source

06.09.10 Prisoners of Apple Hype

06.09.10 Linux Magazine: “Microsoft Has Already Approached Canonical Pressuring Them to Sign up to a Patent Deal, But They Turned it Down.”

06.10.10 IDG/IDC is Belittling GNU/Linux Again, Using Known Distortions

06.14.10 Bill Gates Lobbies in Nigeria for Governments (Taxpayers) to Solve Polio Problem That Gates’ Investments in Oil Are Creating

06.19.10 Microsoft Markets Mobile Products That Don’t Exist

06.25.10 “Microsoft is Very Slow News on the Last Few Days”

06.25.10 Former Microsoft Executive: Microsoft Should Lay Off 30%-40% of Its Workforce

06.25.10 If Ardour Chooses Not to Support Windows, Microsoft Might Do It

06.29.10 Microsoft’s Failure in Mobile Technology Shows That Microsoft Has No Promising Future

06.29.10 Bilski Case Analyses: Good News, Bad News

06.29.10 Lie Watch: Microsoft Does it Again

07.02.10 FUD Watch: OpenLogic Survey Shows Enterprises Should be Afraid of GPL

07.05.10 Danger Assets in Danger: Summary of KIN and Sidekick Demise

07.07.10 News Reports About Microsoft’s Confirmation of Layoffs

07.07.10 Microsoft’s Undercover Lobbyists for Software Patents in Europe

07.07.10 Reader’s Report and Leak: “Microsoft is Pulling an EDGI on Brazil.”

07.20.10 UK Government Gets More Serious About GNU/Linux Migration

07.20.10 Survival of XP as Sign of Microsoft’s Death

07.20.10 Hypnosisoft

07.20.10 Fading Future of Proprietary Handsets

07.21.10 More Criminal Activity in Bill Gates’ Past (Corbis Fraud), Russian Spies at Microsoft

07.23.10 Microsoft Hides Security Flaws, Then Brags About Transparency

07.24.10 Patents Roundup: The Spreading of Software Patents and Microsoft ‘Patent Tax’ on GNU/Linux

07.24.10 Deadly Proprietary Software

07.24.10 HP Dumps Vista 7 for Linux, Hires Vice President From Microsoft as Software Head, Then Brings Back Vista 7

07.24.10 Teaching Our Children That Crime Pays Off

07.28.10 Novell Promotes — Then Disses — Fog Computing

07.30.10 Microsoft’s Top Competitors Are GNU/Linux or Users and Vendors of GNU/Linux

07.30.10 Apple, Which Sues Linux Using Patents, Expands Patent Arsenal

08.01.10 Infosys is an Extension of Microsoft India

08.01.10 Catching up With Microsoft

08.02.10 Microsoft’s ‘American EDGI’ Comes to Florida, Fog Computing to US Government

08.02.10 Google Drains Microsoft’s Coffers, Gets Attacked by Microsoft Through Regulators (Again)

08.02.10 Why Microsoft’s Mobile Business Collapsed and There is No Future Haven For It, Either

08.02.10 Financial Situation at Microsoft: An Opener

08.03.10 Amid Fraud Allegations, Gates Foundation Ownership in Wells Fargo Surfaces

08.05.10 Microsoft Downgraded, Attach Rates for Office 2010 Said to be Declining and Windows Increasingly Rejected

08.05.10 Microsoft Extorts Salesforce: Salesforce to Make Sales, Microsoft to Make the Money

08.06.10 Among Systems Software Companies, “Microsoft Has the Lowest Relative Performance”

08.08.10 Patent Threat Banshee Gets Hooks Into Ubuntu 10.10

08.09.10 Fraud at HP and What it Means to Microsoft

08.10.10 Microsoft Gives Three New Signs of Desperation

08.11.10 Great New Example of Why GNU/Linux is Inherently More Secure Than Windows

08.12.10 Amazon EC2 Has Just Become Even More Infected With Microsoft ‘Patent Tax’ on Linux (Ballnux Added)

08.17.10 Microsoft Technical Leader Says That “Software Patents Suck”

08.23.10 Just Days After Hurd’s Ousting, HP Backtracks and Puts Windows Before Linux

08.24.10 Google Shoots Itself in the Foot by Patenting Software

08.25.10 Microsoft Tactic: We Love Open Source, But Those ‘Zealots’ Don’t Love Us Back

08.25.10 IDG Spin: Microsoft a Victim in Patent Racketeering, Loves Open Source

08.25.10 New Evidence Suggests HP CEO Was Ousted Not for Sexual Harassment

08.25.10 Microsoft is ‘Openwashing’ Azure

08.26.10 Apple Lessens Its Commitment to Server Market

08.27.10 Moves to ODF (Along With GNU/Linux) Obstructed by Apple and Bureaucracy

08.27.10 Microsoft Does Not Rebut Claims of Silverlight Demise, Messengers Attacked Though

08.30.10 Microsoft Uses “Half-naked” Women (‘Meter Maids’) to Promote Its Products

09.02.10 It’s True, Android is Not Free (Because of Microsoft Patent Extortion)

09.02.10 Microsoft Says Choose Microsoft to Avoid Lock-in

09.03.10 GNU/Linux Keeps Gaining Market, Microsoft-Funded Net Applications Keeps Lying

09.03.10 “Only Idiots Want to Pay for Novell” (Corrected)

09.06.10 Microsoft Loses the Web Browsers Competition (Despite Cheating), Loses to Google as Prestigious Brand in Japan

09.06.10 Windows Phone 7 is Already Failing, Linux to Blame

09.10.10 Microsoft President Quits, But is Nokia the Next Victim?

09.13.10 Microsoft Passes More of Its Executives to the MSBBC. What About Nokia?

09.18.10 Media Blitz for Internet Explorer 9 Partly an Advertisement for Vista 7

09.18.10 Malcolm Berko Suggests Selling Microsoft Without Looking Back, Apple Still Boxed in a Niche

09.20.10 VMware May Ruin SUSE and Harm GNU/Linux at Large If Acquisition Goes Through

09.20.10 MSMobiles.com is Dead, Microsoft Mobile Business Abandoned by Staff (Entering Yahoo! Management), Future Grim

09.20.10 More Microsoft Antitrust and Tax Evasion, Legalised by Former Microsoft Management (Ross Hunter) in the Government

09.21.10 FBR Capital Markets and Morgan Stanley Both Cut Microsoft Estimates While Microsoft is Hiding the Losses and Layoffs Are Rumoured for Next Month

09.21.10 Asset Sales at Linspire and SCO Show the Similarity Between Those Two

09.21.10 Linux Battle in Mobile Phones Becomes Primarily Legal, Not Technical, Due to Software Patents

09.24.10 Microsoft Bribes and Tax Avoidance

09.26.10 Tax-Exempt Gates Family Still Lobbies to Tax Its Peers Even More

09.30.10 Dark Day for HP: Microsoft Ally Becomes Its New CEO

10.01.10 Apple is a Tiny Niche on the Desktop

10.01.10 Microsoft Offers More Filesystem Patent Traps (While Suing Over Them Again), Red Hat’s Rob Tiller Speaks

10.02.10 More Evidence That Bill Gates’ Destructive Hijack of the Education System is About Control and Microsoft Indoctrination

10.02.10 Microsoft Whistleblowing Alleges That Microsoft/Jon DeVaan Engages in Political Corruption/Election Fraud

10.02.10 Signs of Defeat: Microsoft is Suing Linux Again, Using FAT Software Patents

10.03.10 Vista Phone 7 is Dead on Arrival, So Microsoft Resorts to ‘Chill Attack’ on Linux/Android

10.04.10 Entryism Watch: Yahoo! Keeps Being Abducted by Microsoft Executives, HP Cancels Android Projects After CEO Appointment From SAP

10.06.10 As Expected, Nokia and HP Betray Linux Under Microsoft-sympathetic New Leadership

10.06.10 Internal Document Reveals Microsoft’s Admission of Identity Crisis, New Identity Includes Patents

10.07.10 More Indications That ‘Sales’ of Vista 7 Are Worse Than Sales of Vista

10.07.10 Microsoft Downgraded Yet Again, CEO Bonus Cut, Goldman Sachs Says Microsoft Should be Split, and Company’s CEO Acknowledges It May Vanish

10.07.10 Software Patent Lawsuits Around Linux (Roundup)

10.08.10 Microsoft More Likely to Split Than to Merge With Adobe

10.09.10 English and Spanish Versions of FSF Post on Vista Phone 7

10.09.10 Employees of Microsoft Lose Rights as Debt Grows

10.09.10 Microsoft Live Labs is Dead

10.10.10 Microsoft Pays Mobbyists Who Are Promoting Software Patents Tax in GNU/Linux

10.12.10 Vista Phone 7 [sic is Where Microsoft Partners Come to Die]

10.12.10 Groklaw Compares Microsoft’s Lawsuits Against Linux/Android Vendors to SCO Lawsuit

10.15.10 Microsoft Uses GNU/Linux for DNS, But Still Stuck at Beginners’ Level

10.16.10 All India Council for Technical Education Sells Out to Microsoft, Sacrifices Children’s Future

10.16.10 United Fruit Company 2.0: How Microsoft is Colonising South America

10.18.10 The Death of Microsoft in the Media

10.18.10 Bill Gates’ Successor Quits Microsoft!

10.18.10 Microsoft’s and Apple’s #1 Weapon Against Software Freedom (Including Linux) is Software Patent Monopolies

10.19.10 Attacks on Software Freedom Usually Mean That It is Winning

10.19.10 “Why Don’t They [Microsoft Just *Pay* People to Use Their Mobiles?”]

10.20.10 Linux is Hurting Apple, So Steve Jobs Starts Spreading FUD, Gets Told Off

10.21.10 Murdoch’s Rag Hires a Microsoft Advertiser/Booster as CNET Loses Several

10.24.10 Evidence That Apple May be Behind GNU/Linux in the Desktop Market (Internationally)

10.24.10 Bill Gates Takes Over Schooling Systems With Help From Oprah, NBC, Other Press for Hire

10.25.10 Windows Profit Declines Sharply Because of Competition From GNU/Linux

10.27.10 Ray Ozzie’s Departure Possibly Related to Decline of PCs and Microsoft’s Inability to Adapt to Mobility

10.30.10 Microsoft Silver Lie is Virtually Dead. Is Moon Lie Dead Too?

10.31.10 Microsoft’s Lock-in Tricks Decrease Rather Than Increase Microsoft’s Market Share

11.01.10 Apple and Microsoft Both Attack Linux Similarly, But the Latter Suffers From Innovator’s Dilemma

11.03.10 Microsoft Hides Billions in Losses in Areas

11.03.10 Google Sues the Government for Serving Microsoft and Not the Industry, Should Sue Microsoft for Racketeering Too

11.06.10 Another Example of IDC Giving Bogus (Meaningless) Numbers and Mary Jo Foley Failing to Report the News

11.07.10 TechBytes Episode 2: Ubuntu’s One Way, Silverlight Goes Dark, and GNU Octave Discovered

11.08.10 Microsoft is Stockpiling and Also Buying More Patents While Microsoft’s ‘Buddy’ Finjan Extorts McAfee With Software Patents

11.08.10 Microsoft Shareholder Disappointed by Vista Phony 7 [sic, Which Fails to Sell; Office 2010 Used Only by 4% of Office Users]

11.11.10 Microsoft’s Future Goes Dark as Stock Dumped, Vista Phony 7 [sic Fails, and Microsoft Sues Linux Rivals Instead]

11.14.10 Cronología de Microsoft Extorsión de Patentes Contra GNU/Linux

11.16.10 Confirmed: Microsoft Still Manipulates Financial Reports

11.18.10 Why Windows Phone 7 Shows That Windows in General is Collapsing

11.20.10 Escribiendo a los EstadoUnidenses

11.24.10 Microsoft Collapse Increasingly Acknowledged by Mainstream Media While Microsoft Becomes Patent Troll

11.25.10 Microsoft Cannot Thank Vista Phony 7 for Returns

11.27.10 Microsoft Sellouts Join Microsoft’s Racket Intellectual Ventures and Not OIN

11.29.10 Not Even Oprah Winfrey’s Fake Endorsements Can Save Microsoft’s Vista Phony 7

12.04.10 It’s Not About Linux on the ‘Desktop’

12.04.10 En Medio de sus Movimientos a el Software Libre Italia Cae bajo Siega de Microsoft

12.21.10 Why It’s Unlikely That Nokia Will Turn to Windows, Despite Microsoft Appointment

12.27.10 The Future of Embedded is Linux, Not Windows

01.01.11 Another Microsoft Vice President Decided to Quit, Some Ex-Microsoft Staff Lands in Strategic Places

01.02.11 TechBytes Episode 23: Failuresfest and 2011 Predictions

01.05.11 Ukraine, Russia, China and Several More Countries Under Attack From Microsoft Pirates

01.06.11 Joke of the Day: Microsoft Windows on ARM, Tablets

01.07.11 The Relationship Between Microsoft and Twitter (Possibly Takeover) Keeps Identi.ca Strong

01.07.11 Wayne Borean Explains Why Microsoft May be Heading Towards Bankruptcy

01.07.11 Microsoft Proxy Entities Continue to Harass Google, Spread Misinformation While Microsoft Distorts the Market

01.08.11 Microsoft Has Become an Embarrassment to Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

01.11.11 Microsoft-run Patent Cartel Retreats Following Formal Complaint, But Why? (Updated)

01.11.11 Microsoft President Bob Muglia Rumoured to Have Been Fired

01.12.11 Microsoft’s ARM Strategy Part of Vapourware Pitching, Maybe Plot to Harm Linux

01.12.11 Microsoft is Collapsing Based on Staff Exodus

01.13.11 Upon Exit, Ronald Hovsepian and Co. May ‘Loot’ Novell One Last Time

01.15.11 Reviewers, LG and Dell Show No Love for Vista Phony 7 Just Yet

01.17.11 Microsoft’s Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Is Reportedly Extorting Linux Now

01.19.11 Latvian Government Departments “Must Accept Documents in ODF”

01.19.11 Benjamin Orndorff From Microsoft/Gates and Ellis Represents the CTPN Patents Cartel

01.19.11 Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman Paid by Microsoft for Open Source Spin (and Alexis de Tocqueville Institution Recalled)

01.21.11 Microsoft’s Influence in the MSBBC, Intel, Nokia

01.21.11 In Defence of OIN and Android

01.27.11 Why Microsoft is Preparing Another SCO-Type Attack on Android/Linux

01.27.11 ES: ¿Por qué Microsoft Está Preparando Un Nuevo Ataque de SCO-Type Contra Android/Linux

01.28.11 Microsoft Wants to Exploit Free/Open Source CMS for Userbase

01.28.11 Microsoft Has Killed Yahoo! for Its Userbase

01.29.11 Another Microsoft Vice President (Office 365/BPOS Chief) Quits Microsoft

02.01.11 FSF to Challenge Software Patents While Microsoft Uses Them to Extort GNU/Linux

02.02.11 ES: La Fundación de Free Software FSF Desafia las Patentes de Software Mientras que Microsoft las Utiliza para Extorsionar a GNU/Linux

02.02.11 Netgear CEO: “Microsoft is Over – Game Over – From My Point of View.”

02.02.11 Microsoft’s Bing Executives Continue to Flee While Their Company Admits Scraping Results From Google

02.04.11 Yahoo! Teaches World About Microsoft’s Disdain of Standards

02.07.11 A Paralegal’s Take on Microsoft’s Latest Anti-Google (and Anti-FOSS) Moves

02.09.11 GNU/Linux is Crushing Microsoft’s Business Model But New Problems Emerge From the Same People

02.11.11 Microsoft’s Nokia ‘Deal’ is More Like a Takeover, Patents Pose a Problem

02.13.11 Another Senior Vice President Quits Microsoft and Microsoft Sues Departing Executive

02.14.11 Calls for Lawsuits Against Microsoft’s Elop for Conflict of Interest; Billions in ‘Bribe’ Involved

02.15.11 ES: El ‘Trato’ Nokia con Microsoft Es Más Como Una Toma de Posesión, Las Patentes Representan un Problema

02.16.11 Microsoft is Bribing Teachers Again, Maybe Others Too

02.16.11 Ostracise Miguel de Icaza Like Stephen Elop Should Have Been Ostracised From Nokia

02.23.11 ES: Microsoft Està Contaminando El Espacio Codec y Móvil Con Las Patentes de Software

02.24.11 Only US Department of Justice and German Federal Cartel Office Can Really Stop AttachMSFT Deal

02.25.11 Microsoft Staff is on the Ejection Seat (or on Slow Boat to China)

03.01.11 Novell’s (Microsoft-Funded) Anti-Ubuntu Propaganda

03.01.11 Why Do Microsoft Employees Serve Microsoft Even After Leaving? It’s Part of the Contract.

03.03.11 IDG is Again Advertising and Whitewashing Microsoft in Articles About ‘Open Source’

03.13.11 ES: Una Breve Historia de Microsoft FUD

03.15.11 Everything Goes Wrong for Microsoft

03.23.11 ‘New’ Leaked E-mails from Microsoft Show How Microsoft Brands ‘PCs’ Windows

03.29.11 Why Microsoft’s Guy Miguel de Icaza Pushes for C# at Apple, Which is Not Successful

03.31.11 Microsoft Declares Bankruptcy (Chapter 11)

03.31.11 It Takes Microsoft Managers to be Malicious

04.01.11 Software Patents FUD a Sign That Microsoft is Losing, Linux is Winning

04.01.11 Legalising Corruption in Europe, the Microsoft Way

04.02.11 The ‘Upgrade’ Will Fix Everything™, Says Microsoft

04.05.11 When All Else Fails, They Use Patents Against Linux

04.06.11 A Future for Microsoft as Lobbying Firm and Vulture Fund

04.06.11 ES: La Campaña de FUD (Miedo Incertidumbre y Duda) Muestra que Microsoft Está Perdiendo, Linux Está ganando

04.08.11 ES: Un Futuro Para Microsoft Como Firma Cabildera y Como Buitre de Fondos

04.08.11 Microsoft Employees Turn Against Microsoft as the Company Crumbles

04.10.11 Novell’s Patents Will Harm GNU/Linux, Proving That Everyone’s Software Patents Are Bad

04.10.11 The Androidisation of GNU/Linux

04.18.11 Microsoft Shows Why Servers Run GNU/Linux

04.21.11 Microsoft Exploits Dead Scientist From Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Order to Elevate Dying Silverlight

04.21.11 The World According to ZDNet: Vista 7 a Whole Area of IT

04.26.11 Microsoft: We Need More Monopoly Protection

04.28.11 Expecting and Preparing for Microsoft’s Last Stand

05.02.11 What Happens to OpenSUSE and Novell’s Software Patents Now?

05.04.11 Apple Now Worth Almost Twice as Much as Microsoft

05.04.11 Microsoft’s Elop is Like Rick Belluzzo – Hijacks Nokia, Sells to Microsoft, Then Exits

05.05.11 Microsoft’s Three Musketeers (Gates, Allen, Myhrvold) Still Assault the Market With Patents

05.06.11 Microsoft Still Uses Nokia to Attack Linux

05.08.11 Eulogy for Novell

05.13.11 Exclusive: Microsoft Patent Schemes Nobody Knows About

05.14.11 Windows is Getting Less Secure Over Time While GNU/Linux Grows Bigger

05.15.11 ES: Exclusiva: Las Maquinaciones de Microsoft de Patentes de las Que Nadie Sabe Nada

05.15.11 ES: Windows es Cada Vez Menos Seguro a Través del Tiempo Mientras que GNU/Linux Crece Cada Vez Más

05.16.11 Rumour: Microsoft to Take Over Nokia’s Mobile Unit Thanks to Entryism

05.17.11 Microsoft is Bad for the Economy

05.22.11 Eric Doyle: Novell’s Bright Hopes for SUSE Failed to Shine

05.22.11 Microsoft is in a Freefall, IBM Surpasses it in Value

05.26.11 US Government (and Allies) Uses Microsoft Windows to Attack Other Nations

05.27.11 Microsoft’s Android Extortion Gets Price Tags

05.27.11 ES: Microsoft Extorsión de Android Obtiene Etiquetas de Precio

05.27.11 ES: El Gobierno de los EE.UU. (y aliados) Utilizan Microsoft Windows Para Atacar a Otras Naciones

05.31.11 Cablegate: Gates and Microsoft ‘Love’ Children in America

05.31.11 Linus Torvalds Reiterates His Hatred of Software Patents

05.31.11 Why Europe Must Prepare to Abolish and Block All Software Patents

06.01.11 ES: Cablegate: Gates y Su “Amor” a los Niños de Microsoft en América

06.01.11 ES: ¿Por qué Europa debe Prepararse Para Aboler y Bloquear Todas las Patentes de Software?

06.03.11 TechBytes Episode 49: Linux – To Boldly Go…

06.05.11 TechBytes Episode 50: With Rusty Again, Challenging FUD

06.07.11 Microsoft Has Internal Problems as Developers and Executives Rebel

06.07.11 Microsoft Uses the Broken US Patent System to Attack Linux/Android From Multiple Sources, Wants Nokia’s Patents Too

06.10.11 ES: Microsoft Utiliza el Sistema de Patentes de los EE.UU. Para Atacar a Linux/Android Desde Múltiples Frentes, Quiere las Patentes de Nokia También

06.14.11 Microsoft’s Plan of Taxing Linux Using Nokia

06.15.11 TechBytes Episode 51: Nokia and Apple, GPL’s Importance, Silverlight’s Death, and Copyrights Unrest

06.18.11 ES: El Plan de Microsoft de Hacer Linux Pagar Tributo Utilizando las Patentes de Nokia

06.22.11 Agenda-Setting by Microsoft

06.23.11 ES: El Establecimiento de la Agenda por Microsoft

06.26.11 TechBytes Episode 52: Desktop Environments and the Demise of Ubuntu

06.30.11 As Microsoft Managers Keep Fleeing, Microsoft Attacks Small Players That Offer Linux (Updated)

06.30.11 ES: Mientras los Directivos de Microsoft Siguen Huyendo, Microsoft Ataca Jugadores Pequeños Que Ofrecen Linux (Actualizado)

06.30.11 Microsoft Florian Celebrates Patent Extortion, Still Dodges Question About Microsoft Funding

07.01.11 ES: Microsoft Florian Celebra la Extorsión de Patentes, Quién Todavía Evita la Pregunta Acerca Si Microsoft lo Financia

07.06.11 TechBytes Episode 53: WebOS, Universal Laws, and Tablets

07.06.11 TechBytes Episode 54: Patent Extortion, Economy Shifting, Tablets Lacking

07.06.11 Microsoft Extorts Another Company That Sells Linux (Chrome OS)

07.12.11 As Microsoft is Losing, Expect a Lot More Patent-Flavoured FUD Against Linux

07.14.11 Sale of Linspire to Xandros Gets the Unofficial OK After Years in Court, Xandros Sells Scalix

07.15.11 TechBytes Episode 55: Google’s Growth, Sabayon Linux 6, and Sony-Microsoft

07.15.11 ZDNet UK: Is the Affair With Microsoft Over?

07.18.11 Linux FUD and Android FUD

07.24.11 TechBytes Episode 56: GNU/Linux Versus Mac OS X

07.28.11 The Same Old Microsoft at OSCON

08.06.11 TechBytes Episode 57: Desktop Choice is Grand

08.08.11 White House is Microsoft’s House

08.24.11 TechBytes Episode 58: HP’s 180, Google’s New Patents, and the New GIMP

08.31.11 July 2011 Interview With Muktware

09.04.11 Cablegate: Microsoft Attacks Free/Libre Software in Tunisia With a Ben Ali Deal, Conspiring to Also Spy on the Population

09.05.11 Shrinking of Novell

09.05.11 TechBytes Episode 59: Privacy, Tablets, and Dream Studio

09.07.11 Cablegate: In Vietnam, BSA+IDC+Microsoft Assure Microsoft Lock-in in Exchange for Indoctrination

09.08.11 Cablegate: Microsoft Uses BSA Numbers to Call Algerians ‘Pirates’, Pressure for Law Changes

09.10.11 Carol Bartz: Her Job is Done

09.14.11 Cablegate: US Sees Microsoft as Helping to Impose Intellectual Monopolies in Vietnam

09.17.11 On the Web, Microsoft is Dying, GNU/Linux and FOSS Are Winning

09.20.11 Windows Server Lost the Internet and So Will Windows (on the Desktop/Mobile)

09.20.11 Techrights and Microsoft

09.22.11 TechBytes Episode 60: Microsoft Versus Dual Booters, Google Competition Matters, and Google+

09.24.11 TechBytes Episode 61: Sebastian on Mageia and the GNU/Linux Desktop

09.29.11 Microsoft: Blocking GNU/Linux, Then Distracting/Lying to the Press

10.01.11 Microsoft-Funded Government Missing in Action While Microsoft Racketeering Goes on

10.03.11 TechBytes Episode 62: I Told You So

10.06.11 Patents Roundup: Europe Under Pressure, Microsoft Moles in the Press, and More Patent Trolls

10.06.11 Future Portable Devices Are Linux-based as Microsoft Zune Dies and Apple iPhone Dies Before Its Next Arrival

10.10.11 TechBytes Episode 63: Enter KDE

10.13.11 TechBytes Episode 64: From Russia to Bristol

10.19.11 Android 4 is Linux Checkmate

10.20.11 Links – Deranged noises and damage from a Dying Microsoft. Corruption all around.

10.20.11 Novell’s Case Against Microsoft Unrelated to ‘Microvell’ and ‘AttachMSFT’

10.20.11 The Microsoft Spin Machine Makes Racketeering Seem Acceptable

10.23.11 Steve Jobs and His War on Linux, LSD Addiction, and ‘Theft’ of Credit for UNIX, Java, Xerox Inventions

10.29.11 Attachmate/Novell/SUSE Do Not Complain About Microsoft Abuses

11.02.11 TechBytes Episode 65: End of the Season

11.10.11 As Microsoft Extortion Continues, Submission Filed to the Department of Justice for Patent Abuse

11.12.11 US Citizens: Contact Your Representatives, Seeking Prosecution of Microsoft Executives for Perpetrating Extortion Racket

11.17.11 Quitting the Pretence – Part of Microsoft is Just a Patent Troll

12.15.11 When OOXML Attacks Free Software

01.13.12 Microsoft to Start 2012 With More Layoffs

01.24.12 Apple is Sued for Anti-competitive Practices; The Court Sees Patent Lawsuits/Actions by Proxy

01.25.12 Microsoft Wants Node.js to Run Just on Windows

02.01.12 Microsoft Mole Failed to Sell Phones, Managed to Pass Patents to Microsoft’s Patent Trolls

02.01.12 Bill Gates is Hijacking Open Source While Attacking It Using Lobbyists, Patents, and Patent Trolls

02.22.12 FOSS-Hostile Patent Policies in Europe and the FFII’s Response to That

03.01.12 Microsoft Products Don’t Work, Won’t Work

04.20.12 Patent Pledges Are Pointless, Here’s What Red Hat Can Learn From Twitter

04.21.12 Microsoft’s DRM-Box-as-a-Computer Concept is Dying (XBox)

04.24.12 The Big Microsoft Lie is Spreading and It Works

06.02.12 Collusion, Conspiracy and Patent Crimes From Microsoft Against Linux

06.05.12 With Microsoft Mole, Nokia Becomes Microsoft’s Partner in Crime (Through MOSAID)

06.09.12 Aiding Criminals

06.11.12 Linus Torvalds Disputes Security of UEFI

06.13.12 Apple Seeks Android Bans Whilst Antitrust Attorney Speaks About Microsoft’s Latest Offences Against Android (Using Patent Proxies)

06.19.12 Red Hat Fails to Convince That UEFI is Tolerable, Uses ‘Security’ as Talking Point

07.03.12 Nokia is Already Fighting Android With Patents, at Microsoft’s Behest

07.05.12 Moodle and Moles

07.10.12 Microsoft Libelled Android/Linux

07.12.12 The End of the Road for Windows Amid Losses, Security Flaws, and Unstoppable Android Expansion

07.20.12 Red Hat Does Not Want to Defend Its Position on UEFI

07.30.12 New Complaint Filed in the European Commission Over Microsoft’s Extortion of GNU/Linux

08.02.12 Microsoft and Windows in Trouble as Vista 7 Has Failed

08.05.12 How Microsoft Expands the Patent Racket Against Android/Linux

08.06.12 Vista 8′s Catastrophic Arrival Will Make GNU/Linux a Superior Gaming Platform, Claims Creator of Minecraft, Not Just Valve

08.13.12 SUSE to Help Microsoft With UEFI Agenda

08.23.12 Microsoft Has Influence in Linux and FOSS

09.29.12 Microsoft Expected to be Fined for Disobeying European Orders

10.12.12 Now That Netflix Is Decoupled From Microsoft, Will GNU Linux Users Get Served?

10.14.12 Linux Wins the Devices OS War, Microsoft Tries to Lock it Out With UEFI

10.25.12 Huge Fines for Microsoft Browser Offences

11.05.12 Microsoft Veterans Attack Android/Linux From Juniper

11.13.12 Microsoft is Not a Hardware Company and It Shows Again, Sinofsky Quits

11.14.12 Microsoft Failed With Vista 8, Set to Attack Linux With Patents Instead

11.18.12 Vista 8 is Not Selling, But Microsoft’s UEFI Scheme Blocks Linux Installations/Booting

01.03.13 Mark Penn Shows Microsoft-AstroTurf Overlap

01.09.13 Microsoft-fed Patent Aggressors and Lobbyists Make Free Illegal

01.14.13 Hacker Culture Frightens Microsoft

01.24.13 Confirmed: Microsoft Coordinated Propaganda Against Munich’s Migration to GNU/Linux

01.27.13 Vista 8 Doing So Poorly That Microsoft Tries to Claim It Has Not Been Released Yet

02.18.13 Microsoft Tries to ‘Steal’ Android Apps While Attacking Android With Software Patents, BT Countersued

03.02.13 Turning Open Source to Proprietary-Only, Microsoft Style

03.08.13 Microsoft Acknowledges That Windows, the Common Carrier, is Falling Behind

03.22.13 Microsoft Surveillance of Over 100,000 Skype Accounts?

04.14.13 Why Microsoft is Trying to Abduct OEMs Like Dell (or Nokia)

04.19.13 Microsoft’s ‘Cloud’ Strategy: Make GNU/Linux More Expensive Using Patent Blackmail, Then Offer ‘Linux Apps’ on Windows

05.09.13 Microsoft Moles Assimilate FOSS (Microsoft’s Philosophical Opposition) to Microsoft

05.12.13 Matt Asay is Wrong, Microsoft Does Sue (SLAPP Action), Doesn’t Just Threaten

05.20.13 Microsoft is Struggling to Maintain Industry ‘Standards’

06.01.13 Canonical’s Grave Strategic Errors Can Make Ubuntu the Next Linspire (Circa 2007)

06.06.13 Microsoft’s Latest Attack on GNU/Linux in Education Targets the Poorest

06.07.13 The Good News: White House Knows the Patent System is Broken. The Bad News: It Does Not Understand Why.

06.09.13 Microsoft Crime Persists: AstroTurfing a Regular Practice, Reddit Full of Paid Microsoft AstroTurfers

06.18.13 Judge Jackson Dies While Microsoft Continues to Abuse the System, This Time Using Nokia as a Front

06.25.13 Microsoft Implodes While Damage is Done to Other Companies and Through Other Companies

06.27.13 Back Door Access Discovered in Backup Servers of HP, Showing Urgent Need to Dump Proprietary Software

07.01.13 The British Military Gives the United States Back Doors Into All of Its Computers

07.06.13 Too Many Microsoft Proxies Inside the FOSS World

07.06.13 Microsoft Has Built a Patent Front Against Linux/Android

07.11.13 Microsoft Tries in Phones the Same Bribery Strategy It Allegedly Tried for Elimination of GNU/Linux in Sub-notebook

07.13.13 Microsoft Deal Kills Barnes & Noble

07.15.13 President of the Microsoft Office Division (Kurt DelBene) Leaves the Company

07.15.13 OEMs Too Shy to Advertise Vista 8 Despite Microsoft Payments

07.21.13 Nokia is Microsoft’s Antitrust Complaints Proxy, Microsoft Florian the AstroTurfing Proxy/Tool, and Bribes a Last Resort

07.22.13 No Imminent Plan to Fix the Patent System in the US, Just to Make it More Convenient for Megacorporations and Plutocrats

07.29.13 The Crisis of Microsoft and the Coverup

08.01.13 Hardware Companies Continue to Dump Microsoft Windows

08.09.13 More OEMs Turn to Linux-based Platforms Because Dependence on Windows is Killing Them

08.16.13 Microsoft Sued (Class Action) for “False and Misleading Statements” Regarding “Financial Performance”

08.24.13 Microsoft’s International Crimes, NSA Collusion, and Taxpayers’ Payments for Microsoft to Collude With the NSA

08.28.13 Techrights in 2013-2014 (Eighth Year)

09.26.13 Microsoft Moles in HP, the Bill Hilf Edition

10.03.13 ‘Microsoft Linux’ (aka SUSE) No Longer a Threat to Red Hat

10.03.13 Microsoft’s Monopoly is Not Sustainable, Monopolist and Monopoly Abuser Bill Gates is Being Pushed Out

10.07.13 Convicted Monopolists Call Software You Develop and Give for Free ‘Anti-competitive’

11.07.13 The “Year of the Linux Desktop” Predicted in the Corporate Press

11.09.13 Explosive New Revelations About Elop’s Role Inside Nokia

11.14.13 Microsoft Has Taken Over Mono Development, With Miguel de Icaza’s Consent

11.14.13 The Linux Foundation Appoints Former Microsoft Manager for Management of OpenDaylight

11.22.13 Microsoft Takes AstroTurfing to New Levels, Co-opting Grassroots and Bribing People

12.09.13 EU Commissioner VP Joaquin Almunia Aware of Microsoft’s Anti-Linux By-Proxy Patent Strategy (Nokia), Threatens Antitrust Action

12.16.13 In Operating Systems Market, Microsoft is Going Nowhere Fast

12.17.13 ‘Retired’ Microsoft Staff and the Takeover of the Government

12.18.13 Governments Increasingly Leaning Towards Free Software in the Wake of NSA Scandals and Economic Pressures

12.19.13 Microsoft Cannot Compete Fairly, May be Bricking Its Own Systems Again

01.13.14 The Age When Press Organisations Are Run by — Not Just Funded by — Plutocrats

01.20.14 Linking Surveillance to Assassinations

01.22.14 Microsoft Caught AstroTurfing Again, But Is Criminal Prosecution Imminent? (Unlikely)

01.27.14 The Desperate Attempts to Discredit Android

02.03.14 Microsoft: Why Stop Committing Crimes When You Can Change the Public Image/Persona?

02.03.14 Amid Financial Misconduct Microsoft Fights Against Basic Tech Rights, Obviously in an Attempt to Squeeze Out More Money

02.05.14 ‘New’ Microsoft Leadership Just Rebranding of Patent Extortion, Bribery, and Illegal Surveillance

02.09.14 Apple Feels the Pinch of Linux and Starts Buying Its Own Stock

02.19.14 Nadella is Not in Charge of Microsoft, the Big Criminals Are Still in Charge

02.21.14 In Another Attempt to Derail British ODF Policy Microsoft Calls Its Systematic Bribery “Internationally Recognised”

02.24.14 Microsoft Perception Management Continues at ‘New’ Slashdot

03.04.14 Microsoft’s Strategy is to Hurt the Competitors, Not Create Products

03.17.14 Microsoft and Bill Gates Are Still Defending What’s Criminal (Warrantless Mass Surveillance)

03.18.14 Xbox Last: Chief Product Officer Abruptly Quits Microsoft

03.25.14 Nobody Sent to Prison After Microsoft Abused Privacy of Customers

04.15.14 Lawsuit by Microsoft Shareholder Targets Fine for Crimes Rather Than the Crimes Themselves

04.29.14 Microsoft Killed Nokia, Turned It Into a Pile of Android-hostile Patents

05.09.14 Corporate Press Glorifies Microsoft Patent Trolls

05.24.14 The ‘New Microsoft’ Nonsense is Not Dead Yet

05.28.14 Microsoft is Hiring More Moles to Attack Free/Open Source Software From the Inside

05.30.14 Desperate Microsoft Too Busy Attacking the Competition (Primarily GNU/Linux), Not Creating Products

07.10.14 The Effect of Corporate Media Bias: FOSS Demonisation and Microsoft Openwashing

07.13.14 Pro-Microsoft Spin in Microsoft-Funded News Networks

08.02.14 Google Should Sue Desperate Microsoft Out of Existence for Misuse of Government Regulators and Patent Racket Against Android Backers (as Microsoft Sues Samsung Using Another Nokia Ploy)

08.08.14 Microsoft’s Android Lawsuit Against Samsung Shows That Windows is Dead Beef

08.14.14 Shameless Microsoft Spin is Blaming China for Microsoft’s Misconduct and Back Doors While Justifying Massive Losses in Hardware (Made in China)

08.20.14 Corruption Watch: Microsoft Lobbying Designed to Kill Chile’s Free Software Policy and Promote Microsoft With Subsidies, More Dirty Tricks Emerge in Munich

08.23.14 Blowback in Chile and Munich After Microsoft Intervention

09.01.14 Korean Press Slams Microsoft Over Patent Extortion Against Linux/Android as New Abuses Resurface

10.13.14 Microsoft’s Disdain for Women Steals the Show at a Women’s Event

10.21.14 Microsoft ‘Loving’ GNU/Linux and Other Corporate Media Fiction

10.25.14 Nadella a Liar in Chief at Microsoft, Pretending That His Anti-Competitive Practices Are Unfortunately Imposed on Microsoft

11.01.14 Microsoft Openwashing and Hatred of GNU/Linux

11.01.14 Microsoft Still Engages in Criminal Activities Against Linux, Openwashing Efforts Continue Nonetheless

11.15.14 Debunking Several Days of Never-Ending Lies About Microsoft and .NET

11.16.14 Reaffirming Microsoft’s Long-Known Hostility Towards Net Neutrality, Microsoft Crashed Juniper

12.20.14 Microsoft Lays Off Staff, Cheapens Labour as More Companies Are Dumping Microsoft’s Lock-in, NSA-Friendly Services, and Windows

01.13.15 Microsoft Wastes Taxpayers’ Money by Fighting IRS After Evading Tax for Decades

01.14.15 Google Has Eliminated Microsoft’s Dominance in Operating Systems, Microsoft Resorts to Propaganda, Child Exploitation, and EEE

04.02.15 Governments Adopt Free Software and Standards, So Microsoft Distorts the Press for Propaganda and Lies About Microsoft’s Proprietary ‘Products’

04.06.15 Microsoft is Still Openwashing Perfect Apparatuses for Back Doors: Common Carrier (Windows), ‘Cloud’, and Compiler

04.12.15 Microsoft Continues to Attack (and Tax) Linux Using Software Patents

04.14.15 Microsoft is Still Googlebombing the Term Open Source and Fooling Politicians Who Now Think Microsoft is Open Source

04.17.15 Microsoft’s Plot to Associate Windows with ‘Open Source’ is Proving Effective, Despite Being Just a Big Lie

04.18.15 Microsoft Tired of Pretending to be Nice to Free/Open Source Software (FOSS), Microsoft ‘Open’ Technologies Dumped

04.20.15 Yahoo’s Current CEO (Mayer, Formerly of Google) is Trying to End Yahoo! Status as Microsoft Proxy

04.21.15 The Latest Developments Around Microsoft’s Clever Attack on Android/Linux

04.27.15 Microsoft is Interjecting Itself Into GNU/Linux and Free Software News, Even Events and Foundations

06.01.15 Sharp Drop in Microsoft Patents, But Not in Patent Assaults, Coordinated Attacks on Android/Linux, and Googlebombing

06.20.15 Microsoft Has Chosen Patent Extortion and Patent Lawsuits Over Actual Products

06.22.15 Microsoft Injects Its Proprietary Software Into Free Software Stacks and the Open Container Project

06.24.15 Not Only is Vista 10 Not Free, It is Getting More Expensive, According to the Taiwanese Press

06.27.15 The Latest Lies From Microsoft’s PR Apparatus/Public Face, Mr. Nadella

07.01.15 Microsoft Keeps Shrinking

07.02.15 Microsoft Gradually Embraces, Extends, Extinguishes Linux Foundation as a Foundation of GNU/Linux

07.02.15 Microsoft India Still Lobbies and Lies About Free Software in Order to Knock Down Policy That Favours Free Software

07.09.15 The Future of Computing is Mobility and Microsoft Cannot Do Anything But Patent Extortion Against Android/Linux, So More Massive Layoffs Are Announced by Microsoft

07.14.15 Gross Openwashing of Microsoft and Windows, Propaganda About Associated Costs

07.22.15 Microsoft Losing Billions of Dollars is Not News

07.22.15 Amid Billions in Losses, Microsoft Tries to Conquer the Competition (Which Already Wins)

08.04.15 Free Software is Commercial

08.07.15 The Delusion of Privacy and Security in Vista 10 Instantaneously Debunked Even in the Media, Despite Microsoft’s PR Efforts

08.16.15 Vista 10 Inherently Broken, Anti-Competitive (Against GNU/Linux and Free Software), Privacy-Infringing, and Definitely Not Secure

08.25.15 Letter Signed by Two German Officials Becomes a Microsoft Weapon of Propaganda

09.01.15 Calling Proprietary Software, Software Patents, Lock-in (Like OOXML) and DRM ‘Open’

09.01.15 Recycled Old News About Vista 10, Stressing That Not Only ’10′ is Spyware But All of Windows is

10.04.15 Microsoft Continues to Extort Linux and Android OEMs Using Software Patents, This Time ASUS (Forced to Pre-Install Microsoft Spyware With OOXML)

10.31.15 Patents Roundup: Software Patents in India, the US, Microsoft’s Dubious Software Patents, and Mark Cuban

10.31.15 Microsoft’s Poaching Efforts (Against GNU/Linux) Advance, Don’t Fall Into the Trap

11.04.15 Red Hat’s Deal With Microsoft Resurrects Fears of Software Patents Against GNU/Linux and Introduces ‘Triple-Dipping’ of Fees

11.05.15 Is Anybody Still Using Microsoft Windows? Now Is a Fine Time to Stop.

11.05.15 More Information Emerges About the Microsoft-Red Hat Patent Agreement

11.10.15 Mozilla Follows Red Hat’s Misguided Strategy of Trying to Fight (Software) Patents With Patents Rather Than Invalidate Them

11.16.15 Red Hat-Microsoft Deal Increasingly Resembles Novell-Microsoft Deal (Including Patent Aspects)

11.17.15 Still No Disclosure From Red Hat Regarding Patent Agreement With Microsoft

12.07.15 Microsoft is Once Again Getting Away With Browser Competition Crimes (This Time in Europe)

12.31.15 Microsoft’s Latest Patent Aggression Comes Under Fire From the EFF, Former GNU/Linux Company the Patent’s Target

02.15.16 Confirmed Again: Microsoft is Bribing Officials

02.18.16 De Nuevo Es Confirmado: Microsoft Esta Sobornando a Oficiales

03.08.16 Microsoft is Turning Eclipse Into Proprietary Software Tool by Sinking its Claws Into the Eclipse Foundation

03.10.16 Microsoft Has Just Blackmailed Linux Twice in One Single Week and the Media Didn’t Notice or Just Ignored It Because of Microsoft’s Charm Offensives

03.13.16 Microsoft Has Chantajeado a Linux Dos Veces en Una Semana y los Medios Ni Siquiera lo Notaron o Simplemente lo Ignoraron Por la Ofensiva Encantadora de Microsoft

03.13.16 Microsoft esta Convirtiendo a Eclipse En Herramienta de Software Propietario al Hincar sus Garras En La Fundación Eclipse

03.20.16 Horacio Gutierrez Has Left Microsoft, But the Patent Extortion Against Linux Continues, Also by Satellites

03.22.16 Horacio Gutierrez Ha Dejado Microsoft, Pero la Extortion de Patentes Contra Linux Continua, Tambien por sus Satelites

03.30.16 Microsoft at EPO: A Look Into the Relationship

04.01.16 Microsoft en la EPO: Una Mirada a la Relación

04.03.16 Patents Roundup: More on Patent Shakedowns, IBM Rejoins the Shakedowns Club With Software Patents, China Worries About Patent Certainty (Too Low a Standard)

04.04.16 “The ‘old Microsoft’ is still the ‘new Microsoft’, only the face of the company has changed – CEO and PR.”

04.05.16 “El Viejo Microsoft es Todavía el ‘Nuevo Microsoft’, Sólo la cara de la Compañía ha Cambiado – CEO y PR.”

04.12.16 FUD Against Free Software Adoption in the Government and in Businesses Comes From Firms Connected to Microsoft

04.14.16 FUD Contra la Adopción de Free Software en el Gobierno y Negocios Proviende de Firmas Conectadas a Microsoft

04.26.16 More Rumours and Calls Surrounding Prospects of Microsoft Buying Canonical (Ubuntu and More)

04.27.16 ES: Más Rumores y Llamadas Acerca de Prospectos de Microsoft Vaya a Comprar Canonical (Ubuntu con todo y Zapatos)

05.31.16 Microsoft’s Former Chief Patent Counsel Praises Elevation of Software Patents in Microsoft Case, Adds to Cherry-Picking and Lobbying by Patent Lawyers

06.12.16 Yahoo’s Patent Portfolio Might Soon Be ‘Monetised’ by Passage to Trolls at the Rate of at Least $100,000 Per Patent

08.14.16 High Risk Persists That Yahoo’s Software Patents Will Land on Microsoft’s Lap and/or Trolls’ Hands

08.23.16 The Linux Foundation Gives Microsoft (Paid-for) Keynote Position While Microsoft Extorts (With Patents) Lenovo and Motorola Over Linux Use

11.16.16 Don’t Believe the Lies; Microsoft Hates Linux and Merely Pulls E.E.E. Tactics Against It, Including .NET Promotion

02.09.17 Microsoft Offers That Infamous “IP Peace of Mind” to Free/Open Source Software Users as Long as They Pay Rents to Microsoft

03.10.17 With Latest Promotions, Microsoft Puts Its Tokens in the Patent Shakedown Basket, Its Patent Trolls Fight for Software Patents

03.15.17 Microsoft Continues to Hoard Patents — Even Buying Patents — While Using Them Against GNU/Linux

03.25.17 It Certainly Looks Like Microsoft is Already Siccing Its Patent Trolls, Including Intellectual Ventures, on Companies That Use Linux (Until They Pay ‘Protection’ Money)

03.31.17 Microsoft’s Patent Blackmail Against Samsung Part of a Strategy of Divide and Conquer Against Android

04.05.17 Patent Attacks on GNU/Linux Devices, Courtesy of Philips, Ericsson, Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls

04.11.17 PAX Means Peace, But It’s Making Peace With Software Patents Rather Than Destroy Them

05.14.17 OIN is Still a Distraction Unless We Want GNU/Linux to Coexist With Software Patents (Rather Than Eliminate Those)

08.08.17 Extortion and Racketeering: What the Latest Article at The Hill Calls Patent Trolling

10.19.17 Microsoft’s Software Patents Aggression in Court (Corel Again)

11.07.17 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Pick Up Patents Whilst Attacking GNU/Linux and Dodging Infringement

12.10.17 Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls Are Increasingly Active and Microsoft is Selling ‘Protection’ (Azure Subscriptions)

01.18.18 Microsoft, Masking/Hiding Itself Behind Patent Trolls, is Still Engaging in Patent Extortion

04.07.18 Microsoft — Like BlackBerry — is Nowadays a Patent Extortion Company, So Ignore the ‘Shared Innovation Initiative’ Nonsense

05.15.18 Apple and Microsoft Are Still Suing Companies — Using Patents of Course — Which ‘Dare’ Compete (by Leveraging GNU/Linux)

10.10.18 Open Invention Network is a Proponent of Software Patents — Just Like Microsoft — and Microsoft Keeps Patents It Uses to Blackmail Linux Vendors

12.02.18 35 U.S.C. § 101 Continues to Crush Software Patents and Even Microsoft Joins ‘the Fun’

01.27.19 From Attacking to Stealing

02.10.19 Jim Zemlin’s PAC Keeps Raising Money From Microsoft

02.16.19 WSL is a Misleading Acronym/Name Because There’s No Linux in It, It’s Just Windows

03.18.19 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Continue Their Patent War, Including the War on Linux

05.07.19 Microsoft Will Have You Sued for Not Hosting GNU/Linux on Azure (Paying Rents)

02.09.08 Links 09/02/2008: DRM, Clouds, Fedora XO, FOSS at Airbus

02.29.08 Links 29/02/2008: Migrations to Debian GNU/Linux, 3 GNU/Linux Distributions Released

03.03.08 Links 03/03/2008: OLPC in Thailand, Bill Gates Slams It Again, Steve Ballmer Admits Linux is #1 Threat

03.04.08 Links 04/03/2008: Texas Instruments Joins the Linux Foundation, Microsoft/Yahoo Possibly Cools Off

03.07.08 Links 07/03/2008: Microsoft’s Fears Google Out Loud, Kerala Carries on Migration to GNU/Linux

03.07.08 Links 07/03/2008: Lots of New GNU/Linux Products; *buntus @ Alpha 6

03.08.08 Links 08/03/2008: Linux King of NVIDIA; Sun Looks for Open Source Love

03.09.08 Links 09/03/2008: OSADL, Carlos Piana Interview, KDE 4.1 Preview

04.08.08 Links 08/04/2008: Mass Migration from Windows to GNU/Linux in Brazil; Portuguese Education Adds FOSS

04.09.08 Links 09/04/2008: Another Low-cost GNU/Linux Laptop Debuts; New South Wales (Australia) Shuns Microsoft Office in Education

04.10.08 Links 10/04/2008: New GNOME, UNESCO Promotes Free Software, Yahoo Chooses Escape Route (Google, Java, AOL, Investors)

04.17.08 Links 18/04/2008: New Linux Kernel, New RedHawk Linux, Yahoo Gets Close to Google

04.25.08 Links 25/04/2008: Windows Sales Down 24%, Yahoo Bid Wobbly

04.30.08 Links 30/04/2008: Half a Million Windows Web Servers Compromised; High Morale for Linux

05.01.08 Links 01/05/2008: Another Large Migration to Debian GNU/Linux; Ubuntu Upgrade Successes

05.05.08 Links 05/05/2008: More Feasibility Tests of GNU/Linux for Enterprise Desktops

05.08.08 Links 08/05/2008: New KDE4 Release, Music Players Assumed a Crime

05.09.08 Links 09/05/2008: Freedom Summer of Code Announced; Yet Another Microsoft Antitrust Possible

05.21.08 Links 21/05/2008: Netflix Chooses Linux for Boxes, Microsoft Puzzlement Over Yahoo!

05.24.08 Links 24/05/2008: GNU/Linux Up Sharply at H-P; TinyMe 2008.0 Released

05.25.08 Links 25/05/2008: More Linux Phones and Reviews; O’Reilly Compares MicroHoo Obsession to ‘Penis Envy’

05.26.08 Links 26/05/2008: GNU/Linux in Cuba and Russia

05.29.08 Links 29/05/2008: Migrations to GNU/Linux and More Success Stories

06.04.08 Links 04/06/2008: Migrations to GNU/Linux in Germany, Heaps of GNU/Linux Laptops at Computex

06.06.08 Links 06/06/2008: Loads on GNU/Linux UMPCs (MIDs), New Kernel PC

06.06.08 Links 06/06/2008: Mozilla Firefox 3.0 in the Headlines, Microsoft Office Feels the Heat

06.21.08 Links 21/06/2008: Choice a Necessity, GNU/Linux Development on the Rise

06.27.08 Links 27/06/2008: Migration Stories (to GNU/Linux); A Look at KDE4’s Folderview

06.30.08 Links 30/06/2008: More GNU/Linux Laptops, Windows XP’s End Marks Trouble

07.07.08 Links 07/07/2008: Last Kernel RC, Fedora’s Automatix Equivalent

07.08.08 Links 08/07/2008: GNU/Linux Reaches More Stores; OpenMoko Sells Everything in Stock

07.10.08 Links 10/07/2008: A Look at OpenMoko, PPC Revival with GNU/Linux

07.19.08 Links 19/07/2008: Dell Expands GNU/Linux Efforts, Mandriva Preinstalled on GDium

07.23.08 Links 23/07/2008: Debian Almost 15 Years Old, Firefox 3.1 Alpha Out This week

07.24.08 Links 24/07/2008: Another Victory for the GPlL, More Ubuntu-based Del in the UK

07.30.08 Links 30/07/2008: Mandriva 2009 Reaches Beta; Windows May End

08.05.08 Links 05/08/2008: Many More GNU/Linux Laptops, Mobile Devices

08.26.08 Links 26/08/2008: Microsoft Snubs GNU/Linux, Apple Kills Open Source Project

09.30.08 Links 26-30/09/2008: 1 Million GNU/Linux Laptops for Venezuela, Microsoft Says 60% of Servers Run Linux

11.05.08 Links 05/11/2008: Theora 1.0 Released, GFDL Now CC Compatible

11.08.08 Links 08/11/2008: Red Hat is Expanding, Creative Embraces the GPL

02.20.09 Links 20/02/2009: Many Linux-powered Phones; KDE 4.2 Stuff

02.24.09 Links 24/02/2009: Android Scares Microsoft’s CEO; Google Protests Against Internet Explorer Bundling

03.06.09 Links 06/03/2009: Firefox 3.5 Named; Gnash Reaches New Beta

03.15.09 Links 15/03/2009: Lots of PCLinuxOS Reviews, Linux is 15

03.21.09 Links 21/03/2009: GNU/Linux Advances; Free Software Prioritised in Germany

03.23.09 Links 23/03/2009: JBoss Developer Studio 2.0 Released; NZ Beats Copyright Cartel

07.31.09 Links 31/07/2009: PCLinuxOS LXDE (PCLXDE) 2009 is Out, Microsoft Worries About GNU/Linux

08.10.09 Links 10/08/2009: Linux Gains Tux3, KDE 4.3 and Pardus Get Great Reviews, Arch Linux 2009.02 Released

08.20.09 Links 20/08/2009: KMyMoney 1.0 is Out, New i3 Window Manager

09.04.09 Links 04/09/2009: New Wine, Mesa, Lubuntu

09.25.09 Links 25/09/2009: Ubuntu 9.10 Appearance Finalised, Ulteo Runs on EC2

10.13.09 Links 13/10/2009: GNOME Summit Coming, KDE Would Have Cost $175 Million to Make

11.04.09 Links 04/11/2009: Red Hat’s KVM Punch

11.06.09 Links 06/11/2009: Great Mandriva 2010.0 Reviews; Thunderbird 3 RC Comes Soon

11.08.09 Links 08/11/2009: Good Mandriva and Ubuntu Reviews

11.20.09 Links 20/11/2009: EVO Game Console is Out, Firefox 3.6 Beta 3

12.14.09 Links 14/12/2009: Oracle Makes Commitment and Gets EU Pass

12.22.09 Links 22/12/2009: SheevaPlug Reviewed, Qt Applications Reach Web

12.27.09 Links 27/12/2009: RSSOwl 2 Reviewed, Glimpse at Fedora Omega 12

01.07.10 Links 7/1/2010: GNU/Linux All Over CES

01.08.10 Links 8/1/2010: New Palm Model, Beta Public of Boxee

01.22.10 Links 22/1/2010: Sun to be ‘Merged’, Linux 2.6.33 Reaches RC5

03.10.10 Links 10/3/2010: Fedora 13 Alpha, Freescale+Linux

03.13.10 Links 13/3/2010: Fedora 13 Benchmarked; OpenGL 3.3, OpenGL 4.0

04.01.10 Links 1/4/2010: MeeGo and GNOME 2.30 Are Out

04.27.10 Links 27/4/2010: NVIDIA 195.36.24 Linux Driver, KDE Desktops Made Avatar

05.06.10 Links 6/5/2010: PCLinuxOS 2010.1, KDE SC 4.4.3 Released

06.01.10 Links 1/6/2010: Salix Live 13.0 and Parsix GNU/Linux 3.5r0 Are Out

07.04.10 Links 4/7/2010: Netrunner 2 Reviewed, MeeGo 1.1, Android Rooting

07.14.10 Links 14/7/2010: GNU/Linux Market Surge

07.25.10 Links 25/7/2010: Catch-up With Last Week’s News

09.08.10 Links 8/9/2010: GNU/Linux Market Share Debate, ACTA Meets Barriers

10.18.10 Links 18/10/2010: Fusion Linux 14, Debian Live Raves

11.24.10 Links 24/11/2010: Avatar Reveals Reliance on GNU/Linux, Acer Distributes More Android

12.26.10 Links 26/12/2010: GNOME on GNUstep, Red Hat Upgraded

01.20.11 Links 20/1/2011: China and GNU/Linux, Linux 2.6.38 RC1, gnome3.org Debut

01.24.11 Links 24/1/2011: Linux 2.6.38 RC2, Alienware Survey About Linux

01.25.11 Links 25/1/2011: Pardus 2011 and Quick Look at Dreamlinux 3.5 GNOME

02.19.11 Links 19/2/2011: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS is Out, Android/Linux is Beating Apple

02.26.11 Links 26/2/2011: Linux 2.6.37.2, GNOME 3 User Day

03.30.11 Links 30/3/2011: OLPC Training and “Linux Today” Re-rectified

04.18.11 Links 18/4/2011: X.Org Server 1.10.1, Wind River Backing Android, Trinity KDE Reviewed, Lucas Rocha Moves on

05.03.11 Links 4/5/2011: New PCLinuxOS Magazine, Firefox Fork, Linux Preinstalled on ARM

05.06.11 Links 6/5/2011: Linux-powered Android Phones Take Majority Share in the US

05.11.11 Links 11/5/2011: Linux 2.6.39 is Coming, Skypocalypse Analyses

05.27.11 Links 27/5/2011: GNU/Linux in North Korea, Bodhi Linux 1.1.0 Released

06.04.11 Links 4/6/2011: Red Hat Upgraded, GNU/Linux Gets ASUS Preinstalls, Mageia 1 Welcomed by Reviewers

06.06.11 Links 6/6/2011: Toshiba and Ricoh Sell Linux Tablets

06.28.11 Links 28/6/2011: ASUS to Have Linux Netbook, Silver Lake and Skype Theory

07.05.11 Links 5/7/2011: GNU/Linux Thrives in Germany, Brazil; More Android Tablets

08.07.11 Links 7/8/2011: Red Eclipse Released, KDE 4.7 Praises

08.26.11 Links 26/8/2011: Twenty Years of Linux Celebrated, KDE SC 5.0 Foreseen

10.20.11 Links 20/10/2011: Kororaa 15.1 is Out, Ubuntu 12.04 in Preparation

11.19.11 Links 19/11/2011: Linux Mint 12, ACTA Secrecy

01.05.12 Links 5/1/2012: Nginx Beats Microsoft, Alpine 2.3.3, and Hadoop 1.0

01.18.12 Links 18/1/2012: Canonical Removes Java From Ubuntu, NASA’s Open Source Software Initiative

03.04.12 Links 4/3/2012: Cory Doctorow on Code Visibility, Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.8

05.11.12 Links 11/5/2012: Quetzal Logo, Feodra 18 Named

05.28.12 Links 28/5/2012: Android 4.0 Spreads, VirtualBox 4.1 Released

05.29.12 Links 29/5/2012: Fedora 17 is Coming, Linux Mint 13 Reviews

07.05.12 Links 5/7/2012: Android 4.1 Reviewed, RHEL 7 Preview

11.03.12 Links 3/11/2012: Fedora as Rolling-Release Distribution Amid Delays?

01.03.13 Links 3/1/2013: Ubuntu Phone OS Unveiled, Linux 3.8-rc2, KDE 4.9.5 Released

08.14.13 Links 14/8/2013: Debian Turns 20, New Derivatives

08.26.13 Links 26/8/2013: GNU SIP Witch Updates, Pro-War Propaganda Debunked

05.10.14 Links 10/5/2014: Munich’s GNU/Linux Success Story Told, CoreOS Introduced

10.29.14 Links 29/10/2014: Ubuntu Touch Tablet, Puppy Linux 6.0

01.05.15 Links 5/1/2015: Acer Chromebook 15, GNOME Internet Radio Locator (GIRL)

10.21.15 Links 21/10/2015: UK Government Kicks Out Microsoft, France’s Citizens Vote for FOSS

12.05.15 Links 6/12/2015: CoreOS News, MediaTek Development Platform

02.09.16 Links 9/2/2016: Linux in Robotics, Hyperledger Project

03.07.16 Links 7/3/2016: New Linux RC, Firefox in Devices

03.11.16 Links 11/3/2016: LibreOffice 5.1.1, Android N Previews/Analysis

03.13.16 Links 13/3/2016: KDE at CERN, FCC Versus FOSS

06.07.16 Links 7/6/2016: Manjaro Linux 16.06, Firefox 47.0

09.15.16 Links 15/9/2016: CUPS 2.2, Copyright Undermines European Internet Users

09.22.16 Links 22/9/2016: Red Hat’s Latest Results, GNOME 3.22 Released

10.27.16 Links 27/10/2016: Major Changes in Unity 8, Nextcloud Targets Phones

11.10.16 Links 10/11/2016: Latest Microsoft Attacks on GNU/Linux (by Proxy), F2FS Growing Up

11.17.16 Links 17/11/2016: OpenSUSE Leap 42.2, Microsoft E.E.E. on Linux

02.16.17 Links 16/2/2017: HITMAN for GNU/Linux, Go 1.8

04.21.17 Links 21/4/2017: System76 Entering Phase Three, KDE Applications 17.04, Elive 2.9.0 Beta

04.23.17 Links 23/4/2017: End of arkOS, Collabora Office 5.3 Released

05.14.17 Links 14/5/2017: Linux 4.12 RC1 and KDE Frameworks 5.34.0

09.26.17 Links 26/9/2017: Ataribox runs GNU/Linux, Firefox Quantum, Microsoft Pays OSI

10.13.17 Links 13/10/2017: X.Org Server 1.19.5, pfSense 2.4, Final Stages of Ubuntu 17.10

11.28.17 Links 28/11/2017: Linux 4.15 RC1, Fedora 25 End Of Life, Linux Mint 18.3 “Sylvia” Officially Released

03.08.18 Links 8/3/2018: Vulkan 1.1, Cockpit 163

05.23.18 Links 23/5/2018: DragonFlyBSD 5.2.1 and Kata Containers 1.0 Released

06.19.18 Links 19/6/2018: Total War: WARHAMMER II Confirmed for GNU/Linux, DragonFlyBSD 5.2.2 Released

06.25.18 Links 25/6/2018: Perl 5.28.0, Linux 4.18 RC2, KBibTeX for KDE Frameworks 5

06.26.18 Links 26/6/2018: New Firefox and Stable Kernels

08.01.18 Links 1/8/2018: Wayland Protocols 1.16, Vala 0.41.90, Istio 1.0, SimCity Takedown

11.03.18 Links 3/11/2018: RHEL Focuses on GNOME, Parrot 4.2.2 Released

04.12.19 Links 12/4/2019: Mesa 19.0.2, Rust 1.34.0 and Flatpak 1.3.2 Released