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Any serious, committed user of GNU/Linux who hasn’t heard about the Microsoft/Novell deal has either been slightly dead or at the bottom of an Albanian tin mine shaft wearing a particularly sturdy pair of ear muffs.

Seriously though, the digital wires have been humming back and forth with the original story and the chain-reaction stemming from it. Is it all a storm in a teacup, an over-action? And, does it really matter to the mere, humble end-user like me? I think that it does matter.

It matters because, if you are a typical GNU/Linux end-user like me, you may have found your way to it after enduring the progressive miseries of Windows. In my case, the culprit was the notorious Windows ME. By the time I was ready to jump the proprietary ship, the monitor was heading towards the unopened window. Once I was able to compute in pleasure, stability, ease and security, my interest turned more and more to the ethics, philosophy and politics of free software.

So, who has been saying what?

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Vista creeps over the Horizon

Microsoft finally launches Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange today. Sort of.

Businesses who have locked themselves in to the vendor’s corporate licensing programs will be able to download the products from today apparently. The rest of you are going have to wait till the New Year.

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Also: Why you should care about Vista

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Vista vulnerable to malware from 2004

Microsoft's Vista may be vunlnerable to at least three pieces of widespread malware dating back to 2004 , according to security vendor Sophos.

At least three well-known internet worms — labelled Stratio-Zip, Netsky-D and MyDoom-O by Sophos — are able to execute on the OS, according Sophos.

These worms comprise 39.7 percent of all malware currently in circulation, according to the security vendor. The MyDoom and Netsky variants were first detected back in 2004.

Systems running Vista are vulnerable to the malware when running third-party email clients, according to Sophos. Windows Mail Client — the Vista replacement to Outlook — will block the worms, but businesses running third-party email clients such as Lotus Notes, Yahoo or Gmail will be vulnerable.

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