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The Dutch consumerprogram Kassa continues the story on the scratching XBox. The second test is to see if placed stable, the XBox scratches discs. Microsoft says "no", but Kassa discoveres "yes"

AT THE CANSECWEST HACKERS CONTEST 2008 MAC AND VISTA WERE HACKED! LINUX UBUNTU WON!! SPREAD THE NEWS! LET'S BREAK OUT THE CHAMPAGNE!!! Ubuntu wins CanSecWest Hack Off. The winners and losers in the CanSecWest zero day hack contest are in. The winner is Ubuntu, as it was the only OS who did not fall to hackers. The losers are Apple OS X.5.2, Safari, Windows Vista SP 1 and Adobe Flash. The Windows Vista laptop went down after Adobe Flash Player was installed.

'Vista Capable' lawsuit against Microsoft now a class action By JOSEPH TARTAKOFF AND TODD BISHOP P-I REPORTERS In a blow to Microsoft Corp., a federal judge granted class-action status to a lawsuit late Friday alleging that Microsoft unjustly enriched itself by promoting PCs as "Windows Vista Capable" even when they could only run a bare-bones version of the operating system, called "Vista Home Basic."

"If you didn't know what was really behind Microsoft's open standards and source promises, it might sound like Microsoft was making real changes. You've got to give Microsoft credit for gall. They take a crunching defeat at the hands of the European Unio

"If you didn't know what was really behind Microsoft's open standards and source promises, it might sound like Microsoft was making real changes. You've got to give Microsoft credit for gall. They take a crunching defeat at the hands of the European Union court system for trying to conceal information and now that the court has forced them to reveal that same information, Microsoft is all about increasing "the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for developers, partners, customers and competitors." Urgh. Excuse me. I feel a little ill." - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Since then, I've looked more closely at the details of Microsoft's "new" position and it looks even more to me like a new coat of paint on the same old Microsoft "We're so interoperable" BS. In other words, Microsoft is opening up its secrets for you to look at, but, woe to you if you try to use any of them in anything that might actually make money. Microsoft isn't offering open source a new opportunity, it's offering open source a trap. - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

ECIS,: European Committee for Interoperable Systems. Excellent initiative! Europe will watch Microsoft like a hawk, and will see to it that the recent 'playing nice' with open source/Linux of Micro$oft will result in something substantial, till this far it does not.