Yesterday Microsoft and Novell announced that they are going to work together to make Windows and SUSE Linux work together. The major points are that they will collaborate on translators for office documents and make efforts to make web services that will allow virtual environments to work together. The biggest item is the announcement that they will not seek to enforce their patents on each other. I am not sure what that means to Red Hat or other Linux distributions since they could be opening themselves up to trouble if they copy "protected" code from SUSE.

You can find the press release at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/nov06/11-02MSNovellPR.mspx.