Microsoft loses! Not only did the judge find that Microsoft has a monopoly on the OS market, but he went on to reject every single claim that they made! Especially sweet is the finding that the browser and OS are separate products. Hallelujah! Here’s a link to the New York Times story.
Salon has a Janelle Brown story that contains some details that weren’t in the NYT piece. They’re also running a piece by Andrew Leonard that gauges the reaction of the open source community.
In the world of browsers crushed by the now official Microsoft monopoly, the Mozilla project now lets you vote in Bugzilla on which bugs annoy you the most. An interesting new way to let people contribute. Even if you can’t code or come up with test cases, you can still help set the priorities for what gets fixed first.
Here’s a nicely organized version of the findings of fact in the Microsoft case made available by Yahoo.