The Mono project recently updated their 1.0 roadmap and put dates on it. June 30th is the target date for the 1.0 release. It will be interesting to see if many managed apps for Linux start appearing after that point. I know my web log stats engine runs (slowly) on Mono, but I think the biggest potential for success is if Mono can run ASP.NET apps without modification. End users don't care what operating system the webserver is running and all the UI is already written in cross-platform language - HTML.
Even a little old website like mine isn't safe from comment spammers. I've just spent 5 minutes deleting spam comments one by one. MoveableType doesn't make it very easy to bulk remove comment spam so my plans to switch over to .Text might get bumped up if this happens again.
John Dvorak wrote an entertaining article detailing Microsoft's Plan to Take Over the World. Basically he says Microsoft will release Office for Linux and get Linux converts to start using it. A Microsoft version of Linux will then be released that will eventually become the only version supported by Office. Over time Linux users will be plagued by limitations in the Linux version of Office and constantly reminded of the great features available in Windows. Microsoft will wait until all the Linux converts are singing in unison with them about the problems with Linux and then abrutly kill all Microsoft Linux software. Somehow everyone will then assume that Linux is officially dead.
Likely? I don't think so.
An entertaining conspiracy theory? Definitely.
In case you missed it on Slashdot, Microsoft has released an internal tool called WiX for generating MSI files from an XML description. Slashdot's going bonkers over the fact that this was released as an open source project on SourceForge, but the real gem here is the ability to easily (and cheaply!) generate production quality MSI files. There's even a decompiler that will reverse engineer existing MSI files. If the new house wasn't keeping me so busy, I'd have some fun with this tool..