“Microsoft is making a concerted attempt to persuade Oxford
University to switch from its all-Linux infrastructure to an
all-Vole back end, according to one of my boyfriends on the
prestigious English campus.“Last week, Mageek’o’Berlin reported that Bill Gates,
Microsoft’s CEO, who appeared from behind a curtain a bit like the
Wizard of Oz and then disappeared again in a puff of hype, burbled
on for what seemed like hours about how well the Vole was doing at
Cambridge University–the other ancient English garden of learning
(academe)…”