Upgrading to Windows Vista has been banned by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), technology giant Texas Instruments and other corporations and government agencies. These organizations are evaluating their options, but overseas it’s turning into a stampede to get out of Microsoft software.

School districts in the U.S. are starting to move entirely to Linux rather suffer the cost of upgrading Windows. Examples are the Windsor Unified School District in Northern California and the Bexley, Ohio high school district. Schools making this move have been surprised how easy it is and how much money is saved.

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This didn’t surprise me at all… I haven’t played around with Vista yet but I don’t think I’ve read anything positive about it since it’s release… All I can say is I’ll never be upgrading to Vista anytime soon after reading this article.

Vista - Arrogance & Stupidity

This cool script allows you to simply rotate photos using flash JPG, GIF or PNG image files.

It also allows you to rotate images from RSS, XSPF and ATOM feeds…

Flash Image Rotator

A nice big list of open source applications for windows that are completely free.

Suprise, suprise… FireFox is at the top.

Open Source Applications for Windows

This is a nice list of html, css, javascript and ajax scripts. You are bound to find something new.

The one that stood out to me was the sIFR. It replaces peices of text with any font you want even if the font is not installed on a visitors computer. It’s also SEO friendly… We all like that part.

25 Code Snippets for Web Designers

Someone has put together a very nice list of Ajax scripts.

I had a look through most of them when I first came across it and I can see quite a few coming in handy down the track.

miniajax.com