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A nationwide class action lawsuit has been commenced in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, against DoubleClick Inc. Read more at Slashdot.

A California judge on Friday gave preliminary approval to a landmark settlement under which Microsoft will pay $1.1 billion to settle a class-action suit that claimed it overcharged consumers for Windows. Read more at CNet.

XML may not be as cheap and efficient as its propoents would have you believe. Read more at CNet.

Somehow, Microsoft's profits keeping going up, even while the economy is tanking.

Bush's new email system has faced, or is facing, a DoS attack, well, kinda. The Register has more. (I hate those email systems. One of my senators uses something similar, and most of my complaints just don't fit under the subject headings provided. And then it seems like he has simply stopped responding to my pleas, as I haven't received a response to one of my letters in almost two years. Stupid Automation.)

No, Apple was not the first to 64-bit dekstop computing. Nor was AMD. It was Alpha. (I'm really getting sick of false advertising). The Register explains.

US Judge allows Microsoft to file a little late. I don't know if I really agree with the judge's position on this one though. I mean, the point is, there was a deadline, and MS should have filed well before the deadline to get the whole process going FAST. I work with a lawyer who specializes in anti-trust litigation against pharmaceutical companies and they constantly do this last-minute-filing stuff because the longer they keep the case going, the longer they are immune from the prosecution, the more money they make. They deserve to get their shin kicked for trying to push the envelope too much and delaying justice. Though I guess people being late is one of my biggest pet peeves.

It looks like we'll be able to get PPC straight from Big Blue.

Red hat will be stepping away from shrinkwrap.

SCO has made a new Linux licensing program. Geez, I wonder if they had that planned all along.