Microsoft... Good and bad?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/01/microsoft_open_source_gm/

Microsoft is trying to clean their image up when it comes to open source…

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/04/microsoft-offers-much-needed-fix-for-windows-oss-development.ars

They’re even making their own APT/DPKG sort of package management thing for windows to permit real distributions of Gnu and other open source software to be easily installed on windows. A development I welcome…

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/06/microsoft_ooxml_standards_fail/

However, they’re still fighting a few turf wars over their Word and other Office application dominance…

So, MS… Reformed, or still the iron fist?

I’m not entirely convinced that they’re more evil than Google…