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ComputerWorld reports Web retailers go open-source wrapping up by quoting a Microsoft Gold Partner: “Our customers don’t know where Microsoft is headed…”

OSNews links to an editorial on “Editorial: Why Good Ideas Fail.”

Slashdot speculates “RSS Web-Feeds, The Next Big Thing?” Well, that does that trend. We’re mainstream now

OSNews links to a piece in a Seattle newspaper that reports Microsoft Exec Says Marketing Effort Faltered with Windows XP. It’s so nice that they let him have free space to explain what their advertising should have said. The best part was:

In the next version of Windows - codenamed Longhorn - Allchin said Microsoft will [...]

In Cringely’s weekly column, he figures out what’s wrong with the U.S. economy and off-shoring. And decides he doesn’t have to move to India. Always interesting reading.

Microsoft Hints of Future Programs to Stave Off Linux Overseas. Redmond is focused on finding the right price point and feature set for its products in developing countries, says its platform strategy chief. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley]

Exciting news! Chandler is a Python-based application that aims to provide a world-class PIM for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Just released: version 0.3, a preview of what’s coming, and a chance for developers to download, evaluate, comment and kibbitz on the design and implementation.
Open Source ‘Chandler’ Project Hits Milestone. The Open Source Applications [...]

InfoWorld reports “Real Software is adding the ability to migrate Windows applications to Linux in an upgrade of the company’s Realbasic tool.”

Computerworld News reports Anti-offshore-outsourcing groups banding together. “Major unions and grass-roots organizations that have sprung up around the country to fight the offshoring of IT and manufacturing jobs have formed the Jobs and Trade Network to fight for their cause.”
A poster on the ProFox mailing list observed:
I didn’t complain when coal mining went offshore because [...]

Bob Frankston writes an essay titled “It’s About Connectivity Not The Internet!” on the SATN website. He puts forth an interesting idea that the Internet is becomeing more centralized in control, but that the innovation at the edges is what is far more important: “Rather than building directly upon basic Internet protocols we can and [...]