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Antitrust prompts Microsoft Vista search revamp
Microsoft has outlined the changes it plans to make to the desktop search feature in Windows Vista to satisfy antitrust concerns. Read more »
Google: No Web browser plans
Google executives said they have no plans to build a browser and downplayed threats from Microsoft's new advertising system and plans to bundle search into Vista. Read more »
Gates stepping down from full-time Microsoft role
Bill Gates is transitioning out of his full-time role at Microsoft, the software giant that's been under pressure due to a sagging stock price, competition from Google and nagging delays in the Vista operating system. Read more »
Google denies disassembling Vista code for Chrome
The source code underlying Google's Chrome web browser suggests Google used a reverse-engineering technique called disassembly to figure out how to use a useful Windows Vista security feature, but the company has denied doing this. Read more »
Ballmer: Trusting Vista, battling Google
Steve Ballmer wants you to know one thing: He never throws chairs. Read more »
Ballmer hints at 'Windows Cloud'
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a crowd in London this week that Microsoft this month will show off its new development environment for internet-based applications, dubbed "Windows Cloud". Read more »
Public test next week for Vista SP1
Microsoft on Tuesday said that it has reached the "release candidate" with the first service pack for Windows Vista, with plans to make the test software available publicly next week. Read more »
Schools advised against Vista, Office 2007 upgrade
The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) has advised schools against upgrading to Windows Vista or Microsoft Office 2007 because of the prohibitive cost and interoperability issues. Read more »
Windows Vista SP1 weighs in at 1GB
Microsoft will release the first service pack for Windows Vista in Q1 2008 and the company has revealed that test versions of the update are currently 1GB; Redmond also admitted it is working on Windows XP SP3. Read more »
Vista still struggling as Linux finds its feet
Almost a year on from the release of Microsoft's Windows Vista, only 13 percent of companies say they expect to move all desktops to the operating system, according to a survey released this week. Furthermore, adoption of Linux continues to gather pace, with a particular emphasis on the desktop emerging. Read more »
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50 significant moments from internet history
We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »
Why Chrome will win and why it will lose
Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of Chrome. We spoke to industry experts and Google's new rivals to find out why Chrome matters and whether the browser reality can deliver on the hype. Read more »
Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
The world's richest man on web apps, ultramobile PCs, dirt cheap PCs and the 'G' word. 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 »
Location-based publishing and services
Geocoded content is transforming our Web. By adding geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) to our media, we can help others find it through location-based search engines and web maps. Read more »
What if? an alternative history of tech
Michael Kanellos imagines a world where Apple licenced the Mac and wrestling is a corporate sport. Read more »
Blog (13)
RIP: iPhone carrier monopoly
-- Each time an iPhone launch story appears, one can almost feel thousands of credit cards shudder in collective fear. This week the landscape for the iPhone began to crystallise with confirmation of multiple carriers and a very good indication that the iPhone in Australia would be 3G. Read more »
Windows 7 is Vista--
-- The prevailing consensus is that Windows 7 will be Vista++, but it may actually be Vista--, as Microsoft confirmed that they would be removing the built-in programs for e-mail, photo editing and movie making Read more »
XO to run XP
-- When Bill Gates says that everything in the world should be a computer, what he means is that everything in the world should be running Windows. Read more »
Builder AU widgets for all
-- Want the latest Builder AU tips, tutorials, news and blogs in widget form? Here's Builder AU's cross platform widget to insert on your Web site or blog, Netvibes account, Windows Vista, Apple's Dashboard, or your favourite social networking Web sites. Read more »
Get Vista and Samba to work
-- By default Windows Vista won't authenticate Samba share folders. Here is the quick fix you'll need to do to get the two to talk. Read more »
The return to the king
-- Does the arrival of Web applications on the desktop warrant the death pronouncement of the desktop or is it just hot air? Read more »
Still many questions about software for mobile computers
-- The great thing about the development of future mobile computers is that no one school of thought has come to dominate the territory. Of course, that's also a problem. Read more »
Google joins Microsoft's mixed bag
-- It certainly has not been all roses and glory at Microsoft and Google this week. Read more »
64 bit me
-- If these 64-bit systems are going to use wrappers and other tricks to maintain compatibility with vendors unwilling to support the platform, is there any point to having it? Read more »
So you want to buy Facebook?
-- $500 million is an awful lot of money for a small stake in a Web site -- so I thought I'd make a list of things that Microsoft could spend its money on instead. Read more »
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Microsoft prescribes more RESTDetails have begun to emerge about the next versions of Visual Studio and Windows Server this week -- and the message from Redmond is to REST up Read more »
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With news that REST will play a big part in the next version of the .NET Framework, it is timely to take a look at ADO.NET. Read more »
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Spellr.us needs a new dictionaryOne of the only Australian start-ups to present at the recent round of conferences in the US was Sydney-based spellr.us, which has launched a Web-based tool to check and monitor websites for spelling mistakes. Read more »
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