The Vista users of Lund over in Sweden can't access the Internet through their Linux network.

Imagine, an entire city running its digital infrastructure on Linux. Beautiful, right? Now imagine the frustration of Vista users when their Microsoft OS denies them access to the Internet due to some small bug in some Microsoft code.



Frustrating indeed.



The city of Lund, Sweden has been in the digital dark as Vista OS users cannot gain Internet access through the city's Linux based communications infrastructure. The company in charge if that city wide system, Lundis Energi, had said that the problem persists because of a bug in some Vista code. Lundis Energi also said that they are in no way willing to change the configuration of their server to cope with the flaw.



Microsoft hasn't offered any statement of fix as of yet, but a local Microsoft rep had siad that the folks in Redmond could fix the problem easily enough if Lundis Energi was just a little more forth coming with the details.



Who's to blame.



Well, both actually. Lundis Energi should have been testing Vista back in its early alpha release stages to ensure compatibility with their Linux based server system. On the flip side, Microsoft has to get into gear with increased interoperability between Vista, Linux, XP, OSX, FreeBSD and every other operating system choice available on the market today.



Besides, with Apache (a Linux type web server) being the dominant web server with more than 50 percent market share world wide, Microsoft should bow down just a little and open a window or two to help let the penguin in. After all, only a third of the web servers on earth run Microsoft.