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Munich embraces Linux at last
News The City of Munich has finally started to migrate to Linux on the desktop, a year later than planned
Pioneering desktop Linux project put on ice
News Ambitious plans by Bergen to move to an open source desktop environment have been suspended.
Taking on the Office gorilla, online
News T J Kang, chief executive of online Office start-up ThinkFree, hopes his company can steal a chunk of Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar revenue while the software giant drags its feet
$100 laptop 'will boost desktop Linux'
News The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project will make Linux as popular on the desktop as it is on the server today, according to Nicholas Negroponte, head of the project and founder of MIT's media lab
Desktop Linux for small business
Group Test Is your business ready to take the open source plunge? We test five leading desktop Linux distributions and come up with one winner
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: a first look
Preview Although it won't ship until spring 2007, Steve Jobs has given a public preview of Apple's next operating system.
Alternatives to Microsoft Office
Buyer's Guide In the world of productivity suites, Corel's WordPerfect Office X3 and StarOffice 8 aren't the dominant players, but they each bring strong qualities to the field, such as affordability and ease of use. Still, do they have what it takes to stand up to Microsoft Office?
Type and travel: Web-based word processors
Buyer's Guide Who needs to buy desktop software when free online word processors let you write all you want, access your files anywhere and invite other people to get on the same page?
Featured Talkback
Why do so many (virtually all) software packages think that they are so important that they have to be started automatically every time the computer boots? What is the largest number of "speed access", "update check", "camera download" and whatever other background programs you have ever seen running? Of those, how many did you really need?
By: J.A. Watson
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Annoying software: a rogues' gallery
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Over at ZDNet.com, Ed Bott reports a first sighting of Microsoft's eagerly awaited $300 million ad campaign. Already the cause of much speculation, the consensus is that this will be... More
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Sick Puppy Redo
I generally follow a dispassionate investigative process when trying to discern what happened when a project goes bad. Although its a low priority item, it gets done simply because... More
