>>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.
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>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.

Microsoft isn't taking over jQuery, they are just contributing to the jQuery project mostly in the form of plug-ins.

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

Microsoft has changed direction (imagine that) and going back to supporting ODBC as their primary data connectivity interface. OleDb is being phased out since it's a Windows only starndard

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