Linux users can now get a 64-bit version of Google Chrome.

Emesene is a Linux client for communicating over Windows Live Messenger. The current version brings first-time webcam support.

This week the Linux Foundation published statistics of the people and companies behind the kernel development. Canonical is not mentioned at all.

The Danish Competition Authority has conducted a market analysis of office software so as to give governmental agencies recommendations for public purchases. The results are a definite "live and let live" between the competing standards ODF and OOXML.

On August 11, a court in Texas banned the sale of Microsoft Word in the US due to a patent lawsuit, concerning XML features, brought by the Canadian company i4i.

Mozilla has taken a position on the European Union's proposed settlement with Microsoft about browser integration in Windows 7. Both Mozilla Foundation's Mitchell Baker and Mozilla's general counsel feel that Microsoft is benefiting all too well from the settlement.

Market researcher IDC predicts that Linux will continue steady growth over the next five years, reaching into the billions of dollars in 2012.

Mozilla developers have released a status report on the web synchronization service Weave.