Web technologies, especially XML, negate the need for Windows, according to some high-powered IBM technologists.

Microsoft, riding the wave of its newfound popularity as an Internet standards supporter, claims it will do with .NET what Sun refuses to do with Java: push it as an open standard. By Paula Rooney, CRN.

Matches and compares Linux options to what were once considered Windows tasks.

Compares several popular distributions.

SCO has shown a few hundred lines of Linux code that allegedly violate its rights to Unix, but won't let Linus Torvalds, Linux father, look without signing non-disclosure agreement. [CRN]