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• National Review - Against Microsoft: A primer for conservatives.
  
• EU may fine Microsoft - The European Commission may fine Microsoft up to $2.5bn (£1.75bn) but says its investigation is still at an early stage.
  
• Namibia Wisely Spurns MS 'Gift' in Favor of Linux - For just thirty thousand dollars, small African country can get $2000 in software.
  
• Windows Ruling is Biggest IP Heist in EU History, Claims MS - Looks at EU's order to remove Media Player from Windows from a Microsoft lawyer's perspective. [The Register]
  
• MS to micro-manage your computer - How to trust your digital life to Microsoft in one easy step.
  
• MS plays volume licensing upgrade card against Naked PCs - Volume licensing programs are only an upgrade? How to sell your product once, and get paid twice.
  
• Microsoft to Schools: Give Us Your Lunch Money - Article that details how Microsoft bullies school districts which use unathorized copies of its software. Salon.com.
  
• The Microsoft penalty that isn't - Tech News - CNET.com - MS sides steps the penelties of the court ruling against it by software patents and technology license.
  
• Taiwan: MS may have violated trade laws - Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission investigates allegations that MS used it monopoly unfairly.
  
• Halloween VII: Survey Says - MS admits its Linux-bashing is a failure. Most polled found the MS FUD offensive, one third want OSS because it isn't made by Microsoft.
  
• Windows Costs Less Than Linux. A bit. Sometimes - MS study - Microsoft spins TCO to battle Linux.
  
• Dead People Rise in Support of Microsoft - Seems there is spare time to write your congressman from the grave.
  
• Microsoft is its own worst enemy - What Micrisift does that hurts them.
  
• Ballmer weeps for Windows - Microsoft releases video clip of Steve Ballmer in court, explaining how they are the real victims.
  
• What's Microsoft Up Against in Europe? - A look at how EU's antitrust ruling against the software giant is likely to play out. {Businessweek]
  
• Microsoft winds up on both ends of software piracy stick - The people who invented the term "software piracy" guilty of same.
  
• The new EULA - MS security patch EULA gives Billg admin privileges on your box.
  
• Removing IE would kill Win2k, WinXP - Haven't we heard that one before?
  
• How NSA access was built into Windows - Careless mistake reveals subversion of Windows by NSA.
  
• Lobbying for insecurity - Keeping secure software out of the hands of users.
  
• Linux.com: Can You Trust Your Computer? - How Microsoft's palladium will usher in "treacherous computing."
  
• Tablet PCs Ink a Shady Proposition - Microsoft is pushing ink technology in hopes of continuing its domination of desktop computing.
  
• MS soft-pedals SSL hole - Trustworthy computing in action: Don't worry about our missing security.
  
• Windows Messenger 'Trojan update' - The Register reports on a 'Critical Update' from Microsoft that forceably installs Windows Messenger even if you have already removed it from XP.
  
• EU to fine Microsoft - Finds that Microsoft had abused its Windows monopoly, harming consumers and competitors, and is expected to fine an unprecedented amount. [Guardian]
  
• MS preps all-new warez busting antitrust complying XP SP1 - How to get around a punishment that hasn't even happened yet.
  
• The Remedy Vanishes? - Summarizes the debate over the impact of the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust case, as European regulators impose stricter penalties against Microsoft. [ZDnet]
  
• Register: Preinstalled Windows: AARGH! I can't get it off! - Microsoft site claims Windows can't be legally removed once installed?
  
• Microsoft Financial Critique - Bill Parish's view on how Microsoft uses stock options to raise revenue, taking advantage of its size and cash to manipulate the value of firms it wants to own or harm.
  
• The Register: Justice Chief Queried over MS Campaign Contributions - Why has Attorney General John Ashcroft not disqualified himself from participation in settlement talks in the Microsoft case?
  
• Compulsory Windows: for Macs, and people without PCs? - Microsoft wants your schools to buy software they can't use.
  
• Trustworthy Computing in 2002 - Was 2002 "trustworthy computing," or unethical business?
  
• Microsoft Financial Fraud - Alleges that fraudulent accounting at Microsoft constitutes "the greatest financial fraud/pyramid scheme this century", and could have widespread economic repurcussions even setting aside the huge ramifications of the antitrust trials.
  
• Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary - Michael Tiemann of Red Hat discusses Microsoft's proprietary views on the web and content control. Wired.com.
  
• MS fights Open Source with Freebies - An Eyewitness Writes - How important is market share? They give away software to keep it.
  
• Users Wary of Microsoft Settlement - Worried remedies will not protect competition.
  
  

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