WTF?! moment #347

This quote from an eWeek article on Windows Server 2008 really surprised me (from Microsoft’s Iain McDonald, the managing director for Windows Server): “We can tell which hypervisor they are running on and to be honest, I see zero on Linux. We see VMware rather than Xen because it’s not really out there in production [...]

The Mother of all Format Wars

This is a really good article on Gizmodo.  Check it out.

Stop the Insanity

As if the proposed IPP Act of 2007 isn’t bizarre enough, we also have Microsoft sharpening the dull heads of their legal department to prepare for an attack on the open source community.  We also have another loss of sensitive employee data by an IBM “contractor”.   Yet another soldier has gone missing after a bomb [...]

Blah blah blah… cut cut cut…

That’s the script for the next movie from Microsoft Studios to be released as “The Story of Windows Server Longhorn: Vista Part 2.5″. According to several sources, including this post on BetaNews, Microsoft has once again begun the painful, embarrassing process of whitling down features in a yet-to-be-released product. We all remember things publicly promised [...]

United We Stand, Divided They Linux

The recent merger news of OSDL and FSG (not to be confused with MSG), as reported by InformationWeek, doesn’t ring my bell.  Why?  Because almost every Linux nut I know (and I know quite a few) doesn’t care about consistency across distributions.  It doesn’t benefit them, at least not in their view.  Almost every person [...]