The setting is the Microsoft trial, but they move past that quickly, making the point that the software world tends to change out from under companies quickly. If this drive is true, it means the ability of one company to maintain a stranglehold over any key aspect of computing will draw to an end. The Indian newspaper The Hindu has an article with most of the usual stuff. If enough Indian software developers work to create Linux based utilities and Internet interfaces, this could yet create a new operating system option here, and make Microsoft's present troubles a non-issue. This one in the Indian magazine Computers Today is long and uniformly positive.
Graphics require incredible amounts of disk space and memory.
The same holds true for sound files, so vital to Microsoft's operating systems. Thanks to Yogesh Wadadekar. It's a general introductory article with emphasis on Intel's investment. The Financial Times has a fairly standard introductory article online. ABC News also ran a long introductory article , focussing on Red Hat Software.