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You can’t do strike through in PowerPoint.  But that’s OK, because you can always replicate it using the drawing tool.

You sue us, we sue you. The OIN threatens Microsoft with the nuclear option.

Apparently brain teasers are the new psychometric testing, or something. This is worth reading just for the payoff. It’s a “tea -> monitor” moment.

The horrifying possibility that Vista’s file deletion and copying problems may be in fact a ‘feature’ of the DRM is gaining some traction. Originally a conspiracy theory, more and more people are testing the case. Perhaps someone should make use of the Vista Bootkit to prove it once and for all?

Ouch for Microsoft, at least. Dell gives the go ahead for Linux.

Doug puts it much more eloquently than me, so instead I will just point you at this article at the Toronto Star.

You can’t always get what you want

This nation is a place where Apple Macintosh users cannot bank online, make any purchases online, or interact with any of the nation’s e-government sites online. In fact, Linux users, Mozilla Firefox users and Opera users are also banned from any of these types of transactions because..,

Worth reading the rest…

Yet another farcical American patent. This time it’s Microsoft attempting to patent RSS feeds and readers. Because of course, that was a Microsoft invention, wasn’t it?

UK users to pay 70% more for office than those in the US. Nice. Really nice.

You have to remember, it’s not your software. You’ve bought a license to use it in a way that they specify. Forget this at your peril… Apparently we will only be allowed one reactivation with Vista, and an unknown algorithm will decide when Microsoft think your machine has changed enough to need it. Phear.