“Microsoft’s Empty Promise
Last week, Microsoft extended the terms of their Community Promise to implementations of the ECMA 334 and 335 standards. You might think this means it’s safe to write your software in C#. However, this promise is full of loopholes, and it’s nowhere near enough to make C# safe.”

via Microsoft’s Empty Promise – Free Software Foundation.

Google Chrome OS

“It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.”

http://tinyurl.com/47sk4z

Ms is making noises that it will split off a segment of the company to devote itself to experiencing what their customers feel. This segment will live with MS products in a cross-platform style experiencing what a customer would who also uses Linux and/or OSX. Is "interopabilty" finally going to be addressed?

Reference: http://tinyurl.com/47sk4z