Microsoft says rivals are ganging up, Mar 19, 2002

Dell Computer had plans to put Linux, a free operating system that competes with Windows, on some of its computers in 2000, the states' lawyers said. But Dell abandoned the plans under pressure from Microsoft, they said.

By June 2001, Dell laid off its head Linux employee and reassigned the rest of his team.

If Microsoft has tried to squash the Linux operating system by bullying computer and chip makers into snubbing it, it hasn't succeeded.

That's because Linux, the free operating system that began as a hobby of early Internet users, is more a populist movement than a vulnerable corporate target — like the Netscape browser that Microsoft has eclipsed.

When the boxed product ships in April, version 8.2 will be the first Mandrake Linux version to include the office suite StarOffice 6.0 and the Outlook clone Evolution 1.02, both of which are considered to be significantly improved over earlier editions.

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