Microsoft wants cheap laptops to have Windows XP on them, but only if
their capabilities and storage are artificially limited:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145719/microsoft_to_limit_capabilities_of_cheap_laptops.html
Wine, the unsanctioned Windows runtime for Linux, reaches frozen 1.0
candidate status with only 33 bugs remaining:
http://www.winehq.org/
What's coming soon in the release of PHP6:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-php-future/?ca=dgr-lnxw01PHP-Future
And finally. For us humans 2 copies of the genome per cell is enough.
But Epulopiscium may pack in as many as 200,000:
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080508/full/news.2008.806.html
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.