Most of the web pages are designed with Microsoft fonts. They don’t render the exact way in Ubuntu.

At first I found it quite difficult to use Pidgin Internet Messenger on Ubuntu Linux. Even though it allows signing into MSN, Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk, it still doesn’t give me the real feel of an instant messenger.

On Dell’s website, there are two Dell Mini 10Vs listed. One with an 8GB SSD and Ubuntu and the other with a 160GB hard drive and XP. But due to an error on the listing under the specifications, both were listed as having a “Microsoft Operating System”.

Microsoft is promising not to pursue patent claims against Linux and open-source software using the open-source implementation of .NET, Project Mono.

If this trend continues, it will assure Ubuntu and other Linux distributions a substantial advantage over Microsoft, which so far has announced no plans to build Windows for chipsets that are not x86-compatible.

We’ve all seen the ads on television, “Hi I’m a Mac. Hi I’m a PC.” The Mac always ends up making the PC look like an idiot because the Mac is so superior and so much more stable and just better and more shiny in every way.

Mono/.NET enthusiasts start pushing Novell’s Banshee into the next Ubuntu

Canonical To Microsoft: Is That The Best You’ve Got? Microsoft has been proudly crowing that the vast majority of netbooks today are running Windows and that customers are returning Linux netbooks at a much higher rate than Windows netbooks. Microsoft claims this is happening because people prefer the Windows experience to that of Linux.

When Microsoft employee, Brandon LeBlanc announced that Microsoft ruled the netbook world, he was exaggerating, shall we say, just a wee bit. I was going to stomp on him but Chris Kenyon of Canonical, the business that stands behind Ubuntu, beat me to it.

As we try to figure out the future of the cloud, one thing is assured: developers will drive both deployment and consumption approaches. As is common to so many other major software shifts, developers lead, regardless of what vendors want the market to look like.

Ubuntu must be giving Microsoft fits on the desktop. That’s the only reason I can come up with for Microsoft’s LinkedIn search for a new director of open-source strategy, with a focus on the desktop:

I’ve downloaded the Windows 7 build 7000 beta with the intention to install it in VirtualBox 2.1. I wonder if it can match Ubuntu’s Performance, usability and feature set.

So now I know why I got that bored feeling. I no longer have to be a hands on ’stuck in a routine’ computer user. Ubuntu and Linux as a whole takes care of all that for me.

Under these circumstances (Windows family in crisis), I would argue that this year is a crucial time for Linux as well, if it ever hopes to move beyond 1 percent of the market.