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Negroponte: Dual-boot OLPC laptop on the way

OLPC found Nicholas Negroponte has hinted a dual boot XO laptop could soon be on the way. Read more »

Microsoft FAT patent falls flat

The latest development is a win for open-source advocates, since the technology is used by Linux. Now Redmond has 90 days to respond. Read more »

Interview: Bob Muglia on Longhorn

Longhorn Server will likely be Microsoft's most complex operating system ever, and Bob Muglia has little latitude for more slips. Read more »

Interview with Bill Gates

This week Microsoft have released a host of announcements revolved around Longhorn, Whidbey and the future of Web services. Bill Gates sheds some light on the future of their platforms in this interview. Read more »

Gates touts Microsoft's supercomputing move

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday announced the company's foray into the world of supercomputing, though its first operating system for computer clusters remains in beta testing. Read more »

Gates calls for 64-bit software support

Microsoft's Bill Gates sees widespread use of powerful 64-bit chips in the near future--but not if hardware makers don't get to work on the drivers that will bring that power to the desktop. Read more »

ASUS motherboard has instant-on version of Linux

ASUS is to embed a lightweight, instant-on version of Linux called "Splashtop" into all its motherboards, following good feedback from customers. Read more »

Ballmer Q&A: Feeling the heat at Microsoft

For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat. Read more »

Tangled in .Net

Although Microsoft .Net plans were "hard to understand," CEO Steve Ballmer is working to untangle the mess. Read more »

Sun picks GPL for Java code

After years of requests and debates, Sun is set to release Java source code under a Linux-friendly licence. Read more »

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The FUD war against Linux

Open-source activist Bruce Perens uncovers the SCO-Microsoft connection behind a campaign to convince users that trade secrets of Unix have been copied into Linux. Read more »

Is Red Hat going to be the next Microsoft?

How could a little company that provides Linux open source software hope to topple Microsoft? Could Red Hat become the next dominant (not necessarily domineering) operating systems provider? Read more »

Open source closes in on Microsoft

Microsoft has changed its tune toward open-source software--from denouncing it as a "cancer" that stifled innovation to "loving" the concept of shared source. Read more »

Proprietary vs. open source? Take the best of both codes

The Microsoft vs. Linux confrontation is too often seen as a battle for the hearts and minds of this industry. From a corporate IT perspective, each side has legitimate claims and products to offer. It's not an either-or situation; it's about the price and service for goods rendered. The enterprise will be a hybrid world that continues to integrate both proprietary and open source code for a long time to come. Read more »

Develop secure software at the application level

Protect your application from input overflow and underflow attacks, and from other common tactics with these development techniques. Read more »

Driving towards in-car software

Developing applications to run inside cars is a fascinating and potentially lucrative market for developers. But what systems are actually running under the hood, and what hurdles do you have to overcome to build for them? Read more »

Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates

Bill Gates has left the building and the question on many people's lips is: will Microsoft change as a result? What influence will Steve Ballmer have and how will the company's strategy alter without Gates? Read more »

Google vs. Microsoft

At the 2008 Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, David Mitchell Smith, vice president and Gartner fellow gave a presentation titled "Google vs. Microsoft", discussing the seeming battle between the two companies. Read more »

Top 14 development integration trends for 2004

Take a look at what META Group is saying on integration and development strategies research trends for 2003/2004. Read more »

Who says the browser war is over?

Opera Software CEO Jon von Tetzchner can claim an achievement held by few of his fellow tech entrepreneurs: He's competed head-on against Microsoft and lived to tell the tale. Read more »

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Windows XP's last hurrah

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The mere fact that Microsoft will stop widespread sale of Windows XP at the end of the day has been a topic here and elsewhere for months. The most immediate question is, with Windows XP moving off the stage, just where is Windows Vista? Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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