2008 July

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has unveiled a canny plan to finally drive mass-adoption of the user-unfriendly and geeky Linux operating system on the desktop.
Shuttleworth had the following comments to make at O’ Reilly’s OSCON conference this week:
“I think the great task in front of us in the next two years is to lift the experience [...]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says his company has drawn a line in the sand and is done trying to do a deal to acquire Yahoo! any time soon. And he also believes the future fight to own the search and online advertising business is a two-horse race that Yahoo! does not figure in.
“It didn’t work [...]