According to this, All Five of M$'s Divisions Lost Money Last Quarter. FUDZilla says 17% will get the exe. M$ has screwed the pooch. They've been playing Slog games instead of making things people want. This failure would not have happened to a nicer company. Good riddance.

I'm posting this from Konqueror on Linux as god intended and all that; but http://windows.kde.org/ [kde.org] is the place to look if you want Konqueror goodness on Windows.

Technical limitations, M$'s long history of technical sabotage and the eminent collapse of M$ and Windows market share makes Windows ports a huge waste of effort. Privacy and security on Windows is impossible because the system is rooted by design and you a little more than a renter of a system you can never own. KDE could provide improved performance but M$ sabotage will eliminate that, the same way iTunes, AV and other popular software are routinely broken under Vista. Finally, Vista has failed and Windows market share is already starting to slip. What's the point of porting to eight year old XP, a failed Vista or an expensive and soon to fail Windows 7? It's time to tell your friends that software goodness is best found in the free software world.

The same DOJ sees no problem with M$ extending it's desktop monopoly into search and online services by purchasing Yahoo outright? Sorry, Roland, but Google's non exclusive deal is far less threatening than M$'s intentional destruction of Yahoo.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can hear the apologist now. That's because the Wintel press has been filled with their insanity all year. Absolute idiocy like, "Yahoo can't survive without M$," "Yahoo is mismanaged," and so on and so forth without reality check. If Yahoo can't survive without M$ and M$ can't survive without Yahoo, but somehow the combination can, the combination is almost certainly in violation of anti-trust laws. Really though, online advertising is doing just fine and Yahoo's audience is the envy of M$ and broadcasters alike. Selling a third rate OS and office suite in a box, on the other hand, is an obsolete business model.

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Google could control Mozilla but it has zero control over Firefox search because Firefox is free software. Looking at my nice copy of Iceweasel v3, I see an arrow to chose from search providers. Yahoo, amazon (which is really M$ if I remember), Creative Commons, Answers.com and Ebay are among the choices. The last choice is "manage search engines" where I can add or subtract at any time. So every user has complete and easy control of Iceweasel search. Anyone could compile the code themselves to do the same thing or better.

The investigation is a farce and yet another indicator of M$'s influence over one of the most corrupt administrations ever. In eight years, we have the destruction of anti-trust enforcement, the destruction of Yahoo through anti trust abuse and now a slog on Mozilla. It must be that M$ is really scared of Mozilla's 26% share of the US browser market and even greater share of others.

Yeah, I was just reading about a much uglier incident. The criminals at Novell are not wo well organized, but those who own them are and are not afraid to show the same contempt for your body as they show your work. The police in India look less militarized than those in either the US or Italy.