If only Microsoft would open source these things... Heck if DirectX was open sourced imagine how much farther Linux would have come in the gaming arena. Yet, there is wine and that is pretty damn close to an open source version of DirectX and windows altogether now. I mean its just as buggy as native windows, sometimes even less for me. Counter-Strike: Source doesn't crash wine like it crashes XP and Vista.

Microsoft needs to fix bugs before putting in new "features"

P.S: Where can I score one of them 8-core processors, that was the most interesting part of the announcement for me.

At my work we use a program called samurize: http://samurize.com/ It can monitor WMI out of the box, and there is an SNMP plugin that you can use also. Its hard to work sometimes, and its time consuming also, but it works and since you design the graphics you can make it as pretty as you want

You know, it might be in your best interests to just go and ask a copyright attorney about this. They would be able to tell you definitively if you could be sued into oblivion.