Sign the PetitionWe believe that the current situation, where the European Parliament’s ICT runs on proprietary operating systems and on software that is not interoperable with that of other vendors, where therefore citizens and stakeholder groups wishing to participate in the legislative process are forced to use the products of a single company, ( Read more... )

Microsoft's Corporate Vice President speakingMicrosoft admits that the launch has not gone as well as the company would have liked. "Frankly, the world wasn't 100 percent ready for Windows Vista," corporate vice president Mike Sievert said in a recent interview at Microsoft's partner conference in Denver.
Yep... and the world also wasn't 100 percent ( Read more... )

from here:A computer without Windows is like a chocolate cake without mustard.

On the road again...

Berlin Schönefeld, airport. 10 minutes, and check-in for my flight will close. Only about 500 people in line ahead of me, and I can see why. Baggage check-in has to be done using those self-service terminals, and half of them display some "out of order" excuse while asking to use another one.
( Then i stumble across this one, that explains it all. )