Microsoft claims heart beats in open source, Jul 30, 2008

If Microsoft has a beating heart then the senior director of Microsoft platform strategy Sam Ramji reckons he's found it.

Microsoft's campaign to show that Windows Vista has received an unfair rap continued Tuesday with the launch of its Mojave Experiment Website, which showcases videos from a focus group Microsoft held in San Francisco earlier this month.

Pledging "open and honest" work with the community, the software giant throws in with Apache and other groups -- but not everyone is likely to be as welcoming.

'Momentum is good' for Mac OS X, but adoption rates low, research firm says

At OSCON, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, says he doubts Microsoft would file a claim against Linux developers.

Mike Gunderloy spent over a decade consulting for Microsoft, helping to build the Access and Excel versions of Microsoft Office 97 and 2000, as well as SQL Server, C#, and ASP.Net. A series of Microsoft moves, most particularly its "patent land-grab," has pushed Gunderloy away from Microsoft to the point that he's now "100 percent Microsoft-free" and has embraced a variety of open-source projects and programming languages.

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