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One of the long-running jokes in the free software world is that this year will finally be the year of open source on the desktop - just ...

Hmm, lookee here: Microsoft wants to hire a Director, Open Source Desktop Strategy. Here are the details : The Windows Competitive Strategy...

It's still very hard to read what is happening in the Chinese GNU/Linux market: Although China's Linux market as a whole doubled fr...

Google's story that it's really, really, really not competing with Microsoft gets thinner by the day. Apparently , it's just bo...

KDE justs keeps on getting better and better, and is pretty much the de facto open source desktop these days. Now we have KDE 4 - well, a...

... Ubuntu . Now there's a surprise .

Recently HP has been dropping hints about its deep love for GNU/Linux: Hewlett-Packard is closing custom deals for thousands of desktop PCs...

Zimbra is part of a new generation of open source enterprise apps that are really starting to be taken seriously by companies. The origina...

I have mixed feelings about Adobe's new Apollo : Apollo is a cross-OS runtime that allows developers to leverage their existing web deve...

... apparently : Dell to Expand Linux Options Your feedback on Dell IdeaStorm has been astounding. Thank you! We hear your requests for de...

I quite often flag up big wins for OpenOffice.org, but it can be hard to get the big picture from these small pieces. That makes this wiki ...

Nice to see Sun's boss-man getting it about both open standards and ODF: Imagine you're a legislator that writes a law, or a doctor...

Well, strictly speaking , it's "up to" 20K: PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second-largest automobile manufacturer in Europe, and Nov...

Some say that 2007 is the year GNU/Linux is going to make its breakthrough on the desktop - just like last year, and the year before that. ...

Some fine reporting from Matthew Broersma on Techworld has dug up some interesting stuff about the so-called " failed " open sour...

I wrote about the apparent failure of an open source desktop project in Birmingham a little while back: now it looks like it wasn't the...

This is not good - although it would be interesting to know what exactly went wrong. It may just be that the old GNU/Linux desktop just wa...

Now here's a daft idea : if Linux wants to be taken seriously by the business desktop market, it has to first take itself more seriously...

If there's a tech meme of the moment, it's the GNU/Linux desktop, and whether it's viable. I've weighed in with my own slig...

Think of GNU/Linux and you probably think of servers, maybe with a smidgeon of desktop thrown in for good measure. In fact, the domain wher...