TechCrunch had written a great article on the OLPC and Windows vs. Linux here.

Microsoft’s Surface computer will make its commercial debut April 17 in AT&T stores in New York City, Atlanta, San Antonio and San Francisco.Microsoft first unveiled the Surface back in May 2007; the coffee-table like computer allows touch screen interaction with various surfaces, can recognize objects places on it and even interact with things like mobile [...]

Seriously, guys, this is your new ad campaign?

Apparently MSN is no longer competing on search quality, instead targeting search . . . ignorance.
Yeah. That’s a dominant strategy.

Our eyes may still be slightly out of focus from the complete lack of sleep obtained while at CES, but the two Inventec UMPCs purportedly going by 7-A / 5-D sure look a heck of a lot different than the model we peeked in Vegas. As you can glean from the image above, the UMPC [...]

If you missed the demo of Microsoft’s Surface table product at the D: All Things Digitalconference a few weeks back then you didn’t miss out on much. On that day Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled Microsoft Surface, the first in a new category of surface computing products from Microsoft that will “break down traditional barriers [...]

Software maker Novell Corp. said on Tuesday Microsoft Corp. will make two separate up-front payments totaling $348 million to the company under an agreement to allow Novell’s open-source Linux OS SuSe work with Windows.
Microsoft will pay Novell $240 million up front in subscription fees to allow the world’s largest software maker to use its Linux [...]

Now the cable network group that helped popularize music videos two decades ago is entering the online music fray with URGE, a new service that makes its public beta debut on Wednesday.
URGE comes integrated into the newest version of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Media Player, which users of Microsoft’s Windows will receive in coming weeks as [...]