The Model For Windows 8 Is Linux

By Dana Blankenhorn: Google's (GOOG) strategy, to create a true "year of desktop Linux" with Android devices from a number of OEMs overwhelming Apple's (AAPL) early lead in the space, is working.

By Dana Blankenhorn: Just because it's open source doesn't mean it's free. If there is one sentence which best explains the success of Red Hat (RHT), the Raleigh-based company whose earnings (due out today) are expected to be the first in the history of open source to top $1 billion, it's that.

As popular as Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones and iPads is, it functions largely the same as it did when it was first introduced more than six years ago.

By Dana Blankenhorn: Scared yet? By releasing the code of its Ice Cream Sandwich today, Google (GOOG) has, at a stroke, made most of the smart phone market open source.

By Jim Van Meerten: Right now there is an opportunity for both long term and short term investors in Microsoft (MSFT). A bargain P/E ratio and recent price momentum means everyone can win. Please look at the graph provided by Barchart of the hourly price movement over the last month. Microsoft seems to be kicking off a support level: (Click to enlarge)

Trefis submits: Microsoft (MSFT) dominates the markets in which it competes, in particular the operating systems where Windows has 75% PC market share and the business productivity market where Office has 95% share by our estimates.

By Vytautas Drumelis:Red Hat, Inc. (RHT) provides open source software solutions to enterprises worldwide. It also offers enterprise-ready open source operating system platforms.

By Valuentum: Apple's (AAPL) Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco stole the headlines on Monday. Not only was this CEO Tim Cook's first WWDC, but it was Cook's first real opportunity to be in the limelight since the company announced the iPhone 4S.