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These are the current fronts in which the software wars are being fought.

But it seems that a new warfront is being fought in the sphere of soft drinks with Bing Soda, Microsoft Soda and Ubuntu Cola

Post-it declarations Genius at work do not disturb

The HackFest started off at Geek Terminal. The turnout was hardly shabby We had post-its stuck to our laptop, indicating who we were and our development interests. However, the venue proved a little unconducive for any serious coding, no thanks to the changing volume of music as well the cacophony from some teenagers.

And yes it is a legit event

Thanks to the Neng Giin and Microsoft, we were able to shift our coding party to Microsoft office at 1 Marina Boulevard Lvl 22 …

For those of you still not in the know, Microsoft has moved towards an open source model with their launch of the CodePlex. Our friend Neng Giin pointed out that Microsoft views community development as a mutually beneficial effort, and is, in its own way, supporting the growth of a community of developers.

Of course, many of you have already downloaded Windows and Linux applications off SourceForge. If you take a look at the interface for downloading applications and source code via CodePlex, you’ll see many similarities there with the SourceForge …

April 6: Microsoft Codeplex Yap Neng Giin TR6/SOC1 7pm-8pm

Ever wonder what Microsoft is doing in the way of an open source project? Yes, Microsoft does open source too. It’s called CodePlex, and hosts thousands of open source projects in .NET, C# and Sharepoint, among other Microsoft languages. The community may be relatively new, but it’s thrown up quite a few interesting projects like the Vista/XP Virtual Desktop Manager and My Web Pages Starter Kit – look them up at http://www.codeplex.com, or sign up to join the community!

We’ve invited Microsoftie Yap Neng Giin …