<b>Serverwatch:</b> "Microsoft has been busy these past few days reminding the world that it really is an organization of monstrous proportions and its tendrils reach from the humblest consumer desktop right up to the level of super-computing."

OS Roundup: Microsoft appears to have woken up to the fact that free open-source Office clones may be the thin end of a very slippery wedge. Its response is loud and clear, as it tells the world, when it comes to operating systems Microsoft intends to be a formidable competitor for some time to come.

OS Roundup: Microsoft appears to have woken up to the fact that free open-source Office clones may be the thin end of a very slippery wedge. Its response is loud and clear, as it tells the world, when it comes to operating systems Microsoft intends to be a formidable competitor for some time to come.