I usually refrain from bashing Microsoft unnecessarily, but these days bad news about our Redmond friends seem to crop up with a disturbing frequency, so I’ll summarize most of them in a single article to avoid going on for days on end.
Stop that monopoly!
Latest EU threatens Microsoft over Windows: “BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The EU’s executive told Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer his company must comply urgently with its decision to stop abusing its virtual monopoly position of its Windows operating system or face action.
‘All I can say for the moment we are still not satisfied,’ European Commission spokesman Jonathan Todd told a news briefing, referring to Microsoft’s action to meet the Commission’s demands.”
Tricks with search engin rankings
Google and MSN search comparison: “On the whole is seems that the MSN search engine is indeed placing IIS hosted sites higher in the results more frequently than other webservers. Frequently the MSN search is placing more IIS servers in the important top 10 results than Google even where result sets from a query have actually returned fewer IIS servers overall on MSN.”
Should I switch from Apache in order to get more hist from MSN? At least, they don’t have a monopoly on search engines. Whew!
Longhorn a train wreck?
Paul Thurrott: “I’m reflecting a bit on Longhorn 5048. My thoughts are not positive, not positive at all. This is a painful build to have to deal with after a year of waiting, a step back in some ways. I hope Microsoft has surprises up their sleeves. This has the makings of a train wreck. I’ll have more on that later.”
Firefox spreading
Firefox: Blazing a Trail to 50,000,000: “They said open source would never penetrate the mainstream. But you’ve never cared much for rules, have you? And now we’re blazing a trail to 50 million downloads worldwide. As we turn open source into a household word and reassert the supremacy of simplicity, we are making waves—and starting fires.”
Meanwhile, IE7 beta is yet to be seen.
Agylen 
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