•  The New Zealand government recently gave the boot to Microsoft, with whom it had a recurring three year contract since 2000 to supply all necessary software systems. The government has, in a boost for open source, decided to opt for open source software. Don’t we all want our money to go far?
•  The 7th of June 2009 saw Joomla! reach a major milestone – its 10 millionth download. Even accounting for multiple downloads, that’s quite some number!
•  While the NZ government said ‘No’ to MS, a Swiss government agency awarded a USD 39 million contract to MS without calling for competitive bids, prompting Red Hat to file a suit in the Swiss Federal Administrative Court
•  HTML5, work on which commenced in 2004, provides a whole new set of elements that make structuring a page easier. No more div tags all over the place; instead, there are tags for articles, sections, headers, footers and others. Maybe more important are the audio and video tags, which add support for embedding audio and video files within a page. You can even provide your own play/pause/stop/rewind/forward buttons with the extensive API.
•  The much maligned Microsoft was recently accused by a Canadian firm of using a method patented by it to customize XML tags in MS Word 2003 and 2007. A federal court in Texas declared it to be a clear case of infringement and awarded the Canadian company $200 million in damages. Microsoft spokesman David Bowermaster told reporters that his company plans to appeal the ruling in Federal Court.

Sources: news.zdnet.co.uk; joomla.org; press.redhat.com; dev.w3.org; ca.news.yahoo.com