WinInformant informs us that Microsoft will be intergrating Internet Explorer to the OS from now on, instead of offering it as a standalone application.

Upstart JBoss Group will on Monday debut a new release of its popular open-source application server software amid a growing dispute with Sun Microsystems over Java standard compliance.
Update: Preview of Java 1.5, at Slashdot.

One of the few gripes many users had with QNX RtP was its inability to place icons on the desktop. QNXZone now reports that the first public version of the QNX Desktop has been released. This version supports dragging icons, changing/editing the item's launch command, switch between small/big icons.

"Sun's primary focus continues to be on Unix -- the Unix product portfolio," says IDC research director Al Gillen. But that may be a risky strategy. "As Linux grows, if Sun's not riding that wave fully, they leave themselves open to losing part of the market.". The article is at NewsFactor. We recently wrote a related editorial about it too.

FlexBeta got a chance to try out Lindows 4.0. Taking a couple of screenshots, they noticed that over the hood there isn’t much change over the previous version. Lindows continues to abandon the Windows compatibility as it tries to pave the way for Linux to the desktop.

SCO Group executives said Friday that the company's copyright dispute with Novell doesn't affect its legal campaign against Linux, but they'll probably sue Novell anyway.

Technology news of the day: get ready to experience a keyless keyboard. Also, robots that mimic their human operators' speech patterns seem more likeable and easier to work with, a new study has found.

The Fink project already features KDE 3.1.1, but Tony Arnold is working on bringing Gnome 2.4 (2.3.x for now) under X11 for Mac OS X, via Fink. Screenshot. So far, older Gnome 1.4 is available via Fink.

"Is this the end of Netscape? So much for Netscape 8.0" C|net says. Where does that leave the Mozilla project? After Apple and Microsoft, Real and Amazon get into online music business. IBM launches Lotus admin Kit resources for Win/Linux/Mac. How-to animation in SDL. 3D UI for Windows Desktops. Revolution 2.0 development tool released. New Gnumeric screenshot. Review of Poseidon USB, a USB stack for Amiga/MorphOS, plus a benchmark of AmigaONE against Pegasos and AthlonXP.

TwoOStwo virtual machine for Windows NT/2000/XP enables running multiple operating systems (OS/2, Red Hat 6 and WinNT) and its applications simultaneously with the primary Windows NT/2000/XP operating system on a single PC.

In an interview with Computerworld reporter Patrick Thibodeau, SCO's Chris Sontag, a senior vice president and general manager of SCOsource Division, the group within SCO in charge of enforcing the company's intellectual property, discussed the company's position. It is discussed the Linux kernel issue, Novell's reasons and why Microsoft licensed the Unix IP. Update: More SCO news.

Microsoft is expanding its security business unit with a group that will establish new software development processes and create tools for its programmers so that future Microsoft products will have fewer security flaws, a Microsoft executive said.

In a statement today, SCO seems to have threatened to sue Linus Torvalds, the inventor of Linux, if more companies don't start licensing UNIX. (Note: Look at the very last paragraph.)

Many articles already explain why you should use Linux and describes its advantages. However, for a potential new user, it's also important to know the other side: what are the disadvantages of Linux? This short article by Carl Simard tries to present this other side so that new users can evaluate much better if Linux is for them to try or if they should forget about it.