I’ve been beavering away on WikiSpaces putting together a wiki for resources on how people can get away from using Microsoft’s products. This can become a seriously useful resource for people wanting to find decent alternatives.
You can find it at http://lwm.wikispaces.com. If you’ve got anything to add (and why wouldn’t you?), then go for it!

Andrew Brown has an interesting piece in the Guardian…
It seems a terrible shame to throw away perfectly good old computers just because they won’t run a modern version of Windows. What we need is a Granny Linux, something that is safe from both malice at one end of the modem cable and bafflement at the […]

The new version of the Opera web browser has been made available for download. If you don’t like FireFox but still want an alternative to IE, it’s worth a go.
In fact, are there any Opera users out there willing to make a case for its superiority in the comments?
Tags: opera

Computer makers have been told they’ll no longer be able to get Windows XP OEM by the end of this year, despite consumer resistance to Vista and its compatibility problems.
By early 2008, Microsoft’s contracts with computer makers will require companies to only sell Vista-loaded machines. “The OEM version of XP Professional goes next January,” said […]

Wonderful account by the NYT’s David Pogue of his struggles to install a Netgear 802.11n USB adapter onto a brand-new, spotless Lenovo ThinkPad laptop. Sample:
Screen #1: “Netgear WN121T Smart Wizard.” The startup window offers a photo of the product–but in the place of honor, in the lower-right, right where the Next button should be, […]

SAN JOSE, California (AP) — Smart phone maker Palm Inc. said Tuesday it will use a new platform based on Linux to help the company compete better.
Palm officials announced the new operating system platform during a meeting with analysts in New York, where they also discussed the company’s business strategy and refused to talk about […]

Just a quicky…
The first release candidate of the new version of Thunderbird, the lightweight and secure desktop email client, is now available for download. This should be pretty stable now, rather than the earlier beta versions.
If you are still using Outlook Express, which comes free with Windows, then take this opportunity to switch. Thunderbird is […]

The blogosphere has been going crazy over Paul Graham’s assertion that Microsoft is Dead:
A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo. I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their fear of Microsoft. That was […]

We have made various changes to the site to increase security and functionality, as well as adding a new look.
One of the new features is the MyBlogLog community we have created. Those who are registered with MyBlogLog will have their avatar shown in the sidebar of the LWM site, and you can visit our community […]

Bear with us for a short time while we give the site a little bit of TLC. Things may be a little wobbly over the next day or so…