>You haven't been following Microsoft much lately, have you? They are contributing to Open Source, including jQuery, contributing to and implementing the current HTML 5 proposed standard, and increasing interoperability. They recently announced the termination of OLEDB for SQL Server and just last week, and a SQL Server ODBC driver for Linux.

jQuery? Ouch... whatever Microsoft touched soon became complicated. Nice if true, though, and if covered with a true GPL, not some of their versions with small print.

The main reason I'm not really following is the sources of the news - most of the time it's either sales pitch, or Mary Jo Foley's two sentences with no article (or so it always looked in my browsers, even before I had NoScript plugged in), so I pretty much gave up. The important stuff makes it into UT, just like it did now.

Actually, I knew about the ODBC for Linux, but... no OLEDB for SQL, wow. What's replacing it?