Here's my quote for the week. I found it in pembo13's signature line in a comment on Slasdot:

"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft

Sad but true.

News at Ars Technica and Wired News while I was out of town at CCCC in New Orleans. Open XML has been approved as an ISO.

Last week, the Department of Transportation forbid its employees to upgrade to Vista, IE 7, and Office 2007:

Here's a handy application from Trogladite Software that allows the user to add a specific folder location to the "Send to" right click menu.

Running Linux? Missing Windows viruses? You can always run Windows viruses under Wine. And here's an explanation of how they run. (I must admit. I find this slightly amusing :)

This interview with Microsoft Corp.'s chief Linux strategist surprised me because it's not full of FUD, but rather an insightful look at Microsoft's views of their competition than what we have normally seen in the past. Glad to see that Taylor has figured out that throwing FUD to the media is not going to help Microsoft compete with Linux. Note that Taylor predicts Novell will be their biggest Linux competitor with SUSE given their ability to port over NetWare suite of applications. I read recently on Novell's site that they intend to support their existing NetWare platform completely while offering the same services through SUSE. But I wouldn't be surprised to find out that their long term strategy is to eventually drop the existing NetWare platform line in favor of running everything off of SUSE.