Previous DayUtterly Stupid
Talkback Has everyone in the world gone stark, staring mad? There is absolutely no way in the world I'll place important documents of mine in an unknown location of an unknown country, where I do not have...
Heisenbugs
Blog If you're at the PDC, I can only suggest that you check the Microsoft Research Area. There are some great demos being given of Microsoft Chess. Chess is a tool Microsoft have created to help track...
RE:Windows 7 launches
Blog Comment Thank you....sounds like for the first time we will have a microsoft upgrade that will go easier on the hardware than the previous OS. Having said that, I do wonder If MS will continue to fix...
Microsoft Windows 7 - the reviewers' guide, reviewed
Blog With the Windows 7 pre-beta preview now out of the bag - and our first review up - we took a little time to flip through the 4MB, 111 page, Reviewers Guide PDF. Microsoft Reviewer's Guides are...
Windows 7 launches
Blog Microsoft announced Windows 7 and the new R2 version of Server 2008 today during the keynote speech. Initially Windows 7 looks similar to Vista, but there a lot of new features that have been...
Microsoft announces browser-based Office apps
News The company has confirmed it will offer both businesses and consumers the option of running Word, Excel and PowerPoint from within a web browser
Microsoft sheds more light on Windows 7
News With the new OS, Microsoft is aiming to address many of Vista's shortcomings while keeping things largely the same under the hood
IBM extends solidDB database-accelerator tech
News The company has announced that its database acceleration cache software will soon work with Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and Sybase
Ibex server features could be key for Canonical
Blog Intrepid Ibex, the 8.10 release of Ubuntu due this Thursday, is not a milestone for servers, but it comes at a time when Canonical, the commercial backer of the operating system, is starting to...
Windows 7: screenshot gallery
Photo Attendees at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference have received a 'pre-beta' version of Windows 7. Check out some of the key changes in Vista's successor.
Windows 7: a first look
Preview Microsoft has finally unveiled Windows 7: here are our first impressions of the next Windows, direct from the Professional Developers Conference.
Data-breach admissions may become mandatory
News The EU privacy tsar has said there is growing pressure within the European Parliament to create a data-breach notification law as part of a shake-up of privacy law
Google, US authors settle book-digitisation lawsuit
News The search giant's $125m settlement with authors and publishers has been called 'the biggest book deal in US publishing history'
Micro Focus signs with Microsoft's Azure
Blog Micro Focus has said that applications developed using its implementation of COBOL will be able to work with the Microsoft Azure Service Platform. The aim is for the two companies to deliver...
How Microsoft can make Windows 7 a success
Comment Many businesses have given Vista a wide berth; Microsoft must focus on five areas to make sure Windows 7 doesn't suffer the same fate, argues TechRepublic's Jason Hiner
Belt-tightening may affect security, warn experts
News At the RSA Conference Europe 2008, experts warned that cost-cutting may force some companies to implement tech that does not have 'security maturity'
Analysts give warm welcome to Microsoft's Azure
News The Azure cloud-computing effort has been praised as 'extremely ambitious' by analysts, who stressed how crucial the offering's success is for Microsoft
Microsoft offers patch for unreleased software
News The security update fixes a critical hole in the pre-beta version of Windows 7, due to be distributed to attendees of PDC 2008 on Tuesday
Ozzie: Success of Azure comes down to trust
News In an interview, Ray Ozzie says businesses will be taking a risk by placing core operations in Microsoft's datacentre, but that the software giant has more to lose if things go bad
Is it a wise decision?
Talkback Buying a box of Windows Vista PC users didn't buy just an operating system for their "bare" PC. They bought promises of (finally!) better looking and more user-friendly system. The stories given by...
Wireless business helps Verizon profits soar
News Despite economic uncertainty, the company has seen big gains in profits in the third quarter due to its wireless business
Ubuntu 'Intrepid Ibex' due on Thursday
News Canonical will release Intrepid Ibex this week, improving wireless networking and sporting BBC content. However, profitability could still be three to five years away
On Your Mark... (Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex)
Blog Ubuntu Linux 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) is due to be released on Thursday, 30 October. As they have hit every scheduled release data for Alpha, Beta and Release Candidates in this cycle, I'm quite sure...
Netcraft warns of phishing flaw on Yahoo HotJobs
News A vulnerability on Yahoo's jobs site is letting somebody steal authentication privileges from users to gain access to their accounts, Netcraft says
RE:'Solar' breakthrough reveals green ambitions
Blog Comment Good tech find Rupert, though the article does have that slight MIT PR revenue raising tone about it. Perhaps they're looking to stimulate VC awareness prior to another round of funding? Whatever...
