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Seriously, and what will replace it? Would you believe a VMware exec saying it will be virtual applications running on... Linux? Believe it.

In Thursday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches the think-tank Demos tell us to chill out -- and unblock Facebook from our Web filters. Not to mention how Belgian charities make money...

It's one thing to have a skunkworks operating system project, Midori, that could conceivably replace Windows. It's another to actually have plans on how to switch users from Windows to Midori. Guess what? Microsoft actually does have such plans.

Once more, an 'expert' shows that he knows nothing about open source by proclaiming that it's written by Utopian, open-source radicals. Funny that, I don't think the developers at Red Hat, Novell, IBM, Oracle, Google, etc. would agree.

During a press call today about Canonical's forthcoming Ubuntu release, Mark Shuttleworth said that no one can make money from the Linux desktop. On the other hand, he doesn't think Microsoft will be making much money from desktop operating system for much longer either.

On July 1st, Bill Gates will retire. He'll still spend about 20% of his time on Microsoft projects. If Microsoft is to retain 20% of its economic clout in five years time, the company's board should start working on firing CEO Steve Ballmer now.

Why? Because Ballmer has been in charge of Microsoft for the last several years and he's been running it into the ground. Even before Gates announced that he was going to retire, Ballmer was already in charge and his record of failure speaks for itself.

In case you haven't noticed, the economy is collapsing. We need to use Linux now. We can't afford to waste money on Microsoft trash anymore.

A perfect storm is brewing ahead and, like a fishing captain who doesn't get that a plummeting barometer means stay at port, VMware is persisting in sailing into disaster.

Hot on the heels of the startling revelation that iPhone users are browsing more webpages than Windows Mobile, Symbian, Blackberry and Palm users combined, some major enterprise players are lining up behind the hit Apple device.

Sun has been a company in trouble for years now. Until recently, I was never really worried about it going under. Now, I'm worried.

Just how dumb is Ballmer when it comes to understanding open source? Even dumber than you might think.

This is really easy folks. You can pay Microsoft and other proprietary companies for your software, or you can go open source.

How bad can VMware get? Incredibly bad.

Have you wondered why people have had such nice things to say about Windows 7? Could it be because Microsoft is bribing people--again--with free laptops?

At first, when I learned that Microsoft was not quickly supporting its own Open XML, but ODF and PDF instead, I thought it was a great joke. Microsoft went to all that trouble to make Open XML an ISO standard, but then ...Read more