The KDE development team has set itself beta goals as milestones en route to the first release candidate. An initial release candidate of the KDE 4.0 developer platform is now available along with the improved beta four.

French distributor Mandriva Linux has now opened a club website formerly restricted to all Mandriva users to the general public.

In the light of a ruling by the European Commission, Microsoft has now published revised license terms for interoperability.

One year after releasing version 9 Norwegian software developers Opera have now officially opened the public test phase for version 9.5 of the Opera browser. The Linux version integrates Qt4.

Microsoft cooperates with yet another Linux distributor. Turbolinux has concluded a contract with the Redmonder software giant.

The free OpenBSD operating system will be released in line with its regular 6 month schedule November 1; CD presales are already in full sway.

Becta, the UK government's education technology agency, has today made a complaint to the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for alleged anti-competitive practices by Microsoft in the schools software marketplace and in relation to Microsoft's approach to document interoperability.

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has recognized two Microsoft licenses and granted them the status of Open Source licenses.

The KDE project has just released version 3.5.8 of the Linux desktop fixing various bugs and enhancing a number of components.