Read some interesting pages about Microsoft over the last week or two. The most telling was
How Microsoft Lost the API War which has a theory about the change internally from backwards compatibility. There is some more evidence that this change has become quite pervasive
here and
here. As someone who believes heartily that backwards compatibility is key to having a large enough software base for good adoption this trend is most telling that Microsoft is going in the wrong direction.
Lawrence Lessig posted on his
blog an interesting
speech Cory Doctorow gave to some people at Microsoft about
DRM. Finally, if its to be believed,
Transgaming has announced
WineX 4.0, named Cedega, which will be able to run Windows games on Linux with very good compatibility and performance.