The EU considers fining Microsoft 3M euros a day as MS becomes the first
company to defy an EU anti-trust decision:
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8NJEO0G3.htm
The US Departemt of Transport issues an indefinite moratorium on
installing Windows Vista citing security and compatibility issues:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197700789
NZ ISP Xtra's partnership with Microsoft runs out, and their site is
promptly branded and linked to Yahoo!7 (itself linked to Oz TV7):
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Yahoo%217_and_Xtra_New_Zealand%27s_website_l
aunched
Oracle buys out rival Hyperion for US$3.3 billion:
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=2908ba8d-
dae7-44ef-a526-05c21139e87e&k=2427
Lenovo make their Latitude line of laptops available without Windows
installed, and unlike Dell charge you less for the privilege:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/908824714AE3CFFBCC257291001541C5
Real-world disk drive failures clock in at 15x the MTBF rate quoted
by manufacturers. Fibre is no better than SATA in this respect:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012066
And finally. An elderly Italian woman finds a bonus in a sack of spuds -
a WWII American grenade with the pin removed:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6407963.stm
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.