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Why Microsoft Should Build Its Next Version of Windows on Top of Linux

I was exchanging e-mail recently with my friend Mike Class, SJ, who is associate dean of the Graduate School at Marquette University in Milwaukee,...

How does Linux stack up against Windows XP?

Shortly after I lost the ALT-F-S feature in Microsoft Word last fall, I made a New Year's resolution to try out the Linux...

Open season: Red Hat strives to take on Windows

A.Guru prasadh writes "NEW DELHI: Red Hat, arguably the world's largest provider of open source technologies, including Linux, is now striving to achieve what...

Open-Source Windows? Uh, Kinda

Microsoft's announcement that it will open its source code to the U.S. government isn't quite what it appears. Link: Wired News

Gov’ts Getting Access to Windows Code

SEATTLE (AP)--The source code Microsoft Corp. has long guarded as secret intellectual property is now becoming the carrot dangled before governments to keep them...

Linux, Unix as risky as Windows, says Aberdeen

Contrary to popular misperception, Microsoft does not have the worst track record when it comes to security vulnerabilities. Also contrary to popular wisdom, Unix-...

Linux Set to Challenge Windows on Desktop

With better stability, security and pricing in a desktop operating system with a look-and-feel similar to Windows, Linux advocates say they are getting...

Linux gears up to challenge Windows on desktop

Bought the latest whiz-bang personal computer, but don't know what to do with your older, fully functional PC? One option would be to try breathing...

Glass Panes and Software: Windows Name Is Challenged (by Lindows)

An upstart company, Lindows.com, is trying to persuade the Federal District Court in Seattle to invalidate Microsoft's trademark on Windows. (free registration required) Link: NYTimes.com

Microsoft fights off Windows rival Linux

Microsoft Corp. executives have called the open-source software Linux a cancer. They even have described the increasingly popular operating system -- an alternative to...