A rather melodramatic title — my first thought was, “what bubble? — the author asks where are the next-gen GNOME and KDE to go up against Vista and OSX. From my vantage (a GNOME 2.16 desktop) I think the Linux desktop environments are doing just fine.

This column caught my when I was reading the story about Vista KMS cracking. Good title!

This is a great piece about the reasons behind sometimes poor wireless driver availability for Linux. If your eyes start glazing over, skip down to the section, “The manufacturers speak — or don’t.”

“Deutsche Bank’s Thoma would not say whether signing up to Microsoft’s patent promise formed part of Deutsche Bank’s risk management strategy. ‘That’s a question you have to put to Microsoft.’” Why?