The days of summer may be coming to an end, but that’s no reason to be downhearted. Indeed, just consider the news that in its recent annual filing to the SEC, Microsoft for the first time listed Red Hat and Canonical as official competitors! The company “faces strong competition from well-established companies with differing approaches to the PC market,” the filing reads. “Competing commercial software products, including variants of Unix, are supplied by competitors such as Apple, Canonical, and Red Hat.”