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

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 AJAX at it’s best. This new software called Scrybe looks powerful. It’s an all-in-one organizer that uses AJAX to make tasks easier.

Check out the video on their website showing a live demo…

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I recently purchased a second monitor for my PC and I’ll never be going back After setting up my second monitor, a friend of mine told me about a cool little tool called UltraMon.

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A friend of mine sent me a link to dhtmlgoodies.com a while back but I’ve never really had a decent look at the site.

Last night I finally went through some of the scripts and I have to admit they are all pretty awesome. What is best is that most if not all the script work in all the major browsers. This is a great resource for software developers and website owners.

My favourite DHTML scripts have to be the drag and drops. They are fantasic! I’m definately implementing some of these into my scripts.