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Talkback If the competition is racing away towards the cloud then it may be well to have computers lying around with the "old" style client applications running on them. It would be wise to have some...
RE:Open source - feel good, but work better.
Blog Comment It helps to remember that of all the 90,000 employees at Microsoft only about 10,000 write code, the balance are mostly tied to sales. That ratio says a lot about the company's intentions. Hey,...
A screenshot tour of Windows 7 RC
Photo A look at the release candidate of Windows 7 that was released to the public by Microsoft on Thursday
Windows 7 — as good as it gets
Leader Microsoft's latest version of Windows looks solid and useful. But it's no guide to the future of IT — or Microsoft
Windows 7 launches 23 October, Acer says. Sort of
Blog David Meyer has just phoned in a hot news tip moments ago from a meeting he's been having with Acer. The vice-president for Europe, Massimo D'Angelo, was getting excited about AIO, the company's...
Apple may be readying mid-size 'iPad'
Analysis Is the world finally ready for a mobile 'media pad'? Apple could be plotting to bridge the mobile computing gap between the iPod touch and MacBook
Microsoft Windows 7 RC - MSDN download fail
Blog Twitter is alight with people complaining - nothing new there. But they're complaining that although Windows 7 RC is now available for download to developers on the Microsoft Developers Network,...
Mandriva Spring 2009 Released
Blog Mandriva made their 2009 Spring Release yesterday, and what a beauty it is. I have loaded it on all four of my laptops and netbooks (Lifebook S6510, Lifebook S2110, HP 2133 WXGA, HP 2133 WSVGA),...
Open source - feel good, but work better.
Blog Over on The Guardian, Andrew Brown has applied his unique brand of gentle melancholia to the subject of open source software. Open source, he says, is often acutely dependant on big corporations,...
Windows 7 RC1 made available for download
News Some features have been dropped since the beta version, but Microsoft has decided to allow the release candidate version to stay functional for more than a year
vOptimizer Pro 2.1
Review This suite automatically reclaims over-allocated and under-utilised storage in Windows virtual machines. With SAN storage costing around £10/GB, Vizioncore's vOptimizer Pro could quickly pay for...
Data-sharing failures cause real loss of trust
Comment The real threats to increased data sharing by government departments are not legal impediments, but poor information management, says David Clarke
Intel unveils two mini motherboards
News The chipmaker has launched two new motherboards suited to nettops and small form factor desktops at its annual partner conference
Smartphones, smart move? Take our survey and find out
Blog Do you use an iPhone for work? Would you like to? We're finding out how, what and why people are integrating smartphones into enterprise IT - and, perhaps more interestingly, why they might not be....
Web 2.0 gurus don’t practice what they preach
Blog So it’s been exhibition week here in the UK with InfoSecurity World and Internet World both helping to fill the coffers of the Earls Court management team. Continuing my recent thoughts on the rise...
Intel plans for parallel-programming universe
Q&A Intel's James Reinders outlines the chipmaker's strategy for convincing more developers to switch to parallel programming
Virgin Trains Wi-Fi arrives one year late
News Virgin Trains has completed the rollout of Wi-Fi on its Pendolino trains operating between London and Scotland more than a year later than originally planned
RE:Netbook market? What netbook market?
Blog Comment I certainly agree about the "creeping featurism" of what the manufacturers are calling "netbooks". That was a large part of what I was getting at when I wrote What Do We Expect from Netbooks a...
Netbook market? What netbook market?
Blog I started posting this as a comment on another blog, but thought I'd expand on it here a little. I'm seeing a hell of a lot of babble about how Linux is 'losing the netbook market'. Well,...
