Microsoft, Plants and Film Reviews

Is Microsoft Losing its Grip on the Young Developers? Check out this interesting post by LIE. It's the truth.

Check out the BGR Plant Carnival here.

And the Carnival of Cinema is here.

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That Microsoft story was very interesting. I am currently an IT major and at my particular school, although Microsoft is still very big, Linux's popularity is growing fast. A lot of my peers have switched over to Linux.

By whistlepete (not verified) on 10 Jul 2010 #permalink