A tour of the Microsoft open source lab

Of course it's propaganda. All companies have some form of propaganda to promote it's products
or try to drum up attention.

Fundamentally it's not much different then any open source program with a FAQ page that
answers the question "why use our software?". The major difference is that it's trying to be
'un-corporate". Hence my astroturf comment above.

Same thing with their other similar website called 'Channel9'. That website is a bit worse,
though. Also has more useful and interesting information, too. 

If the port25 people want respect they are going to have to do more then just a blog though...

For example a how-to on making Samba be a PDC for Vista, with work-arounds, configuration
gotcha's and maybe some patches. _Then_ they might be taken seriously. Actually providing
useful details on integrating Windows servers and desktops with Linux servers and desktops
would be a huge step forward. 

Another example would be maybe something like using MySQL or Postgresql as a backend for
Access 2007 in order to make forms built in MS Office be multi-user.

This sort of information is stuff that people actually need, a Windows knowledge base for
Linux users, since the majority of Linux admins are going to be dealing with Windows whether
they like it or not.

Of course if most people here are right there is now way in hell Microsoft would allow them to
publish information, and even details on Microsoft's products, that will make it possibly
easier to replace MS products with FOSS.