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Canonical chases deals to ship Ubuntu Server preinstalled Canonical, the company that supports Ubuntu Linux, is trying to work out a deal with hardware vendors such as Dell to make Ubuntu available preinstalled on servers. Microsoft updates Vista's speed, stability, again For the second time in two months, Microsoft has rolled out fixes to improve Windows Vista's speed and reliability. October 3, 3:04 p.m. PDT Mozilla, Arm, others to build Linux UMPC platform A group of seven companies including Mozilla, Arm, and MontaVista Software are hoping to grow the market for a relatively new device category that sits between a smartphone and a laptop. October 3, 1:48 p.m. PDT Microsoft launches enterprise antipiracy program Microsoft amped up its antipiracy campaign Monday, adding a program that targets large customers that need to "get legal" after being fingered for using counterfeit or illegally applied volume licenses. October 3, 8:19 a.m. PDT Giving up on Vista? Here's how to downgrade to XP Microsoft's decision last week to delay the end of Windows XP sales five months means users have just that much longer to jilt Vista and return to the older -- and some say more mature -- operating system. But even with XP's reprieve, few PCs come with anything but Vista. Even if you wanted to take advantage of the wider window of XP opportunity, you might not know where to start. October 2, 8:26 a.m. PDT SCO's McBride: We're not dead yet If the corporate Grim Reaper is truly knocking on the door of The SCO Group, no one apparently told the company's CEO and president, Darl C. McBride. October 1, 2:43 p.m. PDT Microsoft: We have services, too Microsoft has taken another baby step into on-demand services, with a bundle of small announcements that amount to a little rebranding here, and a couple of new services there. The new offerings are Office Live Workspace -- a free, personal, Web-based document storage and collaboration space hosted by Microsoft -- and a fresh edition of the company's Dynamics Live CRM product.  October 1, 12:01 a.m. PDT SCO gets reprieve from Nasdaq The Nasdaq stock exchange has given The SCO Group a little more time to get its financial house in order. September 28, 12:18 p.m. PDT Microsoft gives OEMs five more months to install XP Microsoft is extending the time it will allow original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and retail outlets to sell PCs with Windows XP as customers continue to balk on upgrading to Windows Vista. September 28, 4:01 a.m. PDT DataCore revs up apps with memory caching It was a long time ago, and my memory may not serve me perfectly well, but I'm pretty sure that the concept of caching is about as old as computing itself. Nevertheless, dedicating fast-access memory space to temporarily park frequently referenced data is still the best and most effective way to cut down on I/O time. September 28, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft's stealth updates stymie XP repairs The contentious stealth update that Microsoft delivered to customers this summer blocks 80 patches and fixes from installing after Windows XP is restored using its "repair" feature, researchers said Thursday. September 27, 8:48 a.m. PDT Tech giants chart research goals Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development currently being investigated within some of the IT world's largest companies. September 26, 2:53 p.m. PDT MontaVista releases new Linux-based mobile phone OS MontaVista Software planned to announce on Wednesday the latest version of its Linux-based mobile phone operating system, expected to be available in November. September 26, 5:27 a.m. PDT Red Hat profit, revenue continue to rise in strong Q2 Global expansion and strong Enterprise Linux subscription sales lifted Red Hat's revenue and net income to double-digit growth for its fiscal 2008 second quarter. September 25, 2:36 p.m. PDT Microsoft dates, prices Office 2008 for Mac Microsoft has named the date on which Mac OS X users can get their hands on the latest version of its Office suite. September 25, 4:02 a.m. PDT Microsoft releases SP1 beta to limited group Microsoft released the beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to a private group of testers, taking one step closer to the anticipated official launch in the first quarter of next year. September 24, 4:09 p.m. PDT Vista Ultimate buyers fume over missing Extras Critics who blasted Microsoft three months ago for failing to deliver Windows Vista add-ons have again called the company on the carpet, this time for missing its self-imposed deadline to provide promised extras. September 24, 12:23 p.m. PDT Euro think tank recommends unbundling Windows from PCs A pro-business think tank in Europe has recommended unbundling Microsoft's Windows operating system from sales of new PCs in order to give customers more choice when buying a new computer. September 24, 4:41 a.m. PDT From big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtualFrom big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtual While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers. After all, notes Buzz Woeckener, the company's zLinux/Unix server manager, virtualization was invented for mainframes. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT On the road to the virtual desktop Click ‘n’ run. It seems like such a simple concept. Surf up to a Web page, select the desired application from a list, and click. Voila! Microsoft Word appears on your desktop. Or Excel, or Adobe Photoshop… you name it. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Herd behavior demonstrated at Demo "Whatever happened to working alone?” September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Credit Suisse plans virtualization a massive scale With 20,000 servers to manage, financial services powerhouse Credit Suisse had a long list of reasons to consider server virtualization: reducing the number of physical servers to manage, cutting power needs, improving software provisioning time, and deferring expensive datacenter buildouts. But it also needed a clear set of guidelines to determine when to virtualize, plus a clear set of procedures for managing a virtualization initiative. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Purdue pursues long-term cost savings Like other adopters of server virtualization, Purdue University was concerned that its datacenter would hit the wall, exceeding physical space, power, and cooling limits. The use of EMC VMware let it combine 140 physical servers into three Hewlett-Packard DL-585 servers, a 40:1 compression ratio, says Mike Rubesch, director of IT infrastructure systems. "It helps postpone the inevitable," he adds. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Transplace beefs up hardware for a virtual world Managing transportation logistics is all about handling scale. As transportation management services firm Transplace added consumer goods companies such as Del Monte, Office Depot, Home Depot, Auto Zone, and DirecTV as customers, it needed to quickly bring server capacity online. Already planning a hardware refresh to support continued growth, CTO Vince Biddlecombe decided to bring in server virtualization at the same time so that he'd have a more scalable, flexible platform for that anticipated growth. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Stonebridge Bank averts a capacity crisis It's a dilemma faced by IT administrators everywhere. "We ran out of rack space, air conditioning capacity, and UPSes at the end of 2004, but we needed more servers," recalls George Rapp, senior vice president of IT for Stonebridge Bank, a regional institution in Pennsylvania. Getting more power in and more heat out was just not an option for the bank's datacenter, so Rapp consolidated multiple Unix servers into one box to reduce the physical footprint and delay the crisis. "But it got us only part of the way," he notes. September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Tech executives dominate richest Americans list Technology executives dominated the top 10 of Forbes magazine's list of 400 richest Americans this year with Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates retaining his place at the top of the annual list for the 14th time. According to Forbes, Gates is worth $59 billion. September 21, 12:19 p.m. PDT Intel project aims to boost power efficiency in Linux Intel plans to announce an open-source project called LessWatts.org, which aims to improve the power efficiency of the Linux operating system and applications. September 20, 11:56 a.m. PDT With bankruptcy, SCO now facing Nasdaq delisting Following its bankruptcy filing, The SCO Group may be booted off of the Nasdaq stock exchange as early as next week, the Unix vendor said Wednesday. September 19, 3:15 p.m. PDT EU commissioner slams DOJ reaction to Microsoft antitrust ruling European Union Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has slammed comments from the U.S. Department of Justice about Monday's European court ruling on an antitrust judgment against Microsoft. September 19, 5:45 a.m. PDT Fear of insider threats hits home The more money that companies spend on securing their IT operations from external attack, the more it seems they become aware that the potential threat posed by their own employees remains their most significant risk. September 18, 10:42 a.m. PDT Microsoft loses appeal against EU antitrust ruling Microsoft failed Monday in its bid to overturn a European Commission antitrust ruling against it, when the European Union's second highest court dismissed the company's appeal and ordered it to pay the bulk of the Commission's legal expenses. September 17, 3:36 a.m. PDT Update: SCO seeks bankruptcy protection With its cash reserves running out, the SCO Group Inc. has filed for bankruptcy protection. September 14, 2:11 p.m. PDT Trust key to Internet security A few of my previous columns discussed my vision of creating a more secure Internet. It involved replacing the Internet's default anonymity with pervasive authentication, from the hardware initialization, through the OS and all applications, the user, and ending with a verifiable network stream. It is my strong belief that without a complete overhaul of default authentication, malicious hacking is going to continue indefinitely. September 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft: 'Secret' updates were for Windows Update Microsoft claims updates sent out to Windows XP and Vista machines without users knowing about them were for the Windows Update mechanism, though the company acknowledged it could have been more "transparent" before changing files on user computers. September 13, 11:31 a.m. PDT Design work trumps new technologies at Beijing Olympics When Beijing won the right to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officials promised to use it as a showcase for new technology and China's economic development. September 13, 6:52 a.m. PDT Sun to install Windows Server OS on its hardware Sun will start selling its lineup of 64-bit PC servers preinstalled with the Windows Server operating system from Microsoft within 90 days, the two companies said today. September 12, 3:02 p.m. PDT Microsoft, Novell open interoperability lab Cross-platform virtualization is top of the list of projects that a new joint development lab operated by Microsoft and Novell will work on, executives said. September 12, 3:46 a.m. PDT Eight great Microsoft reviews and analyses Oliver Rist is gone, but his memory will live on, both in our hearts and in the databases of InfoWorld.com. While you may very well have read each and every Enterprise Windows column he wrote over the years, it's possible that you missed some of the great Windows-oriented product reviews and analyses the InfoWorld Test Center has done, many penned by Oliver. September 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun accommodating Linux in Solaris With an incremental update to its Solaris 10 OS, Sun is extending the platform's virtualization capabilities to accommodate Linux and Solaris on the same computer. September 10, 9:05 p.m. PDT Best of open source in platforms and middleware Open source cut its teeth on operating systems, earned its street cred on Linux and Apache, and never looked back, continuing ever since to extend the kingdom to databases, middleware, and newfangled platforms such as hypervisors for server virtualization. Our Bossies in platforms and middleware recognize a few old faces, and some fairly new ones. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Introducing the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies Not too long ago, open source meant starving developers; scant documentation; an ugly, outdated Web site; and software that lived in perpetual beta. Now open source software is becoming big business. “Now hiring” is a common sight on project home pages, and .org and SourceForge sites that used to point straight to source code archives are redirected to .com URLs that celebrate the commercial success of what started out as collaborations among unpaid coders of like mind. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cooler weather brings hotter news Finally, the long, languid, slow news days of summer are behind us. New products are rolling out, people are heading to a myriad of conferences (including, I hope, our own Virtualization Executive Forum, two weeks away), companies are making announcements, and Steve Jobs is handing out refund checks. Yes, it’s a great time to be a tech journalist. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft streamlines volume licensing programs Microsoft continues to tweak its volume licensing programs to make it easier for business customers to purchase the company's software in bulk. September 7, 2:32 p.m. PDT Microsoft teases with Office 2008 for Mac features Microsoft's Mac Business Unit has begun revealing features of its forthcoming Office 2008 for Mac. September 6, 7:25 a.m. PDT Microsoft releases more Windows Media Extenders Microsoft is increasing the range of video formats that PCs running its Windows software can pipe to televisions around the home, with support for a new range of Extenders for Windows Media Center devices from hardware manufacturers. September 6, 3:46 a.m. PDT Microsoft touts cost savings of Vista over XP Microsoft released details of a study it commissioned that found that total cost of ownership for Windows Vista on mobile PCs is $605 less annually than Windows XP. September 5, 2:20 p.m. PDT Microsoft ties Windows Live services to OS Microsoft is using the same tactic for its online services that made its Internet Explorer browser ubiquitous among Internet users. With new beta technology it's releasing Wednesday, Microsoft is tying its Windows Live services directly to its Windows OS. September 5, 11:01 a.m. PDT Last call: Oliver's parting shot Back in the saddle again… September 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sun: Coders key to Solaris' rise Sun has ambitious plans for the commercial and open-source versions of its Solaris operating system, hoping to achieve for Solaris the kind of ubiquity already enjoyed by Java. To come close to reaching that goal, Sun needs to reach out more to developers and endeavor to overcome some long-held prejudices against the OS. August 31, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft postpones Longhorn release date When Microsoft unveiled the long-awaited details of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on Wednesday, the company also quietly pushed back the release date for another highly anticipated product, Windows Server 2008. August 30, 4:09 p.m. PDT Red Hat adds to system monitoring service Red Hat said this week it had spruced up its Red Hat Command Center server- and application-monitoring service, eliminating the need for users to maintain a Red Hat-prescribed hardware appliance to collect monitoring data. August 29, 1:30 p.m. PDT Microsoft blames human error for WGA glitch Microsoft blamed human error for a Windows Genuine Advantage problem that identified legitimate Windows users as pirates last week. August 29, 12:57 p.m. PDT Update: Vista SP1 due in Q1 2008, beta in September Microsoft has finally broken its silence on the timing of the release of the highly anticipated Windows Vista Service Pack 1, saying the software updates should be in final release in the first quarter of next year with the company shipping off a beta next month to 10,000 to 15,000 testers. August 29, 9:39 a.m. PDT Does Mac OS X suck? Paul Venezia bamboozled me into buying a MacBook Pro back in January, and I've been on it semi-daily ever since. And yeah, overall, I've been pretty happy. Of course, the only reason I was willing to buy one at all was because Parallels made it so easy to run Windows. But while my initial usage ratio was 85 percent Parallels, 15 percent OS X, over the last six months, that's changed dramatically to 45 percent Parallels, 55 percent OS X. Yup, the Orchard does slowly assimilate you. August 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT Senator wants Sun's federal contract cancelled A U.S. senator has called for the U.S. government to cancel an ongoing purchasing contract with Sun Microsystems Inc., but the company says Senator Chuck Grassley's request is based on bad information. August 28, 8:30 a.m. PDT Microsoft offers free software to Louisiana SMBs Microsoft is working with state officials in Louisiana to offer Windows and Office software free for a year to small businesses still feeling the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. August 27, 2:09 p.m. PDT WGA meltdown makes 'pirates' of Vista, XP owners Microsoft has blamed an unspecified server problem for a 19-hour stretch during which paying users of Windows XP and Vista were accused by the company's WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) validation system of running pirated software. Any Vista system fingered during the episode was stripped of some features, including the operating system's Aero graphical interface. August 27, 11:51 a.m. PDT Pano Logic virtual desktops run without software A Silicon Valley startup claims to boost computing security and reduce electric costs with a virtual desktop PC that uses no software or processor. August 27, 9:13 a.m. PDT Microsoft revises anti-Linux campaign with new site Microsoft has replaced its controversial anti-Linux "Get the Facts" Web site with a kinder, gentler site explaining how its Windows Server operating system compares to open-source Linux as well as other competitive OSes. August 24, 9:25 a.m. PDT Does Vista suck? Does Vista suck? The word on the Web is that it sucks badly enough that we should all don iSheep caps and adopt Macs or Penguins. I usually don't get into those kinds of arguments because they amount to OS holy wars. My inbox fills with angry anti-Microsoft zealotry from folks who've made up their minds to hate one and love another no matter what. I just don't look at it that way -- and I don't think most systems admins, consultants, and integrators do either. To us, it's a toolbox. August 22, 3:00 a.m. PDT Ballmer parries discussion of Yahoo buy Try as he might, not even veteran U.S. television interviewer Charlie Rose could get Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to disclose whether the company continues to mull an acquisition of Yahoo. August 20, 12:57 p.m. PDT SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud In the near future, there's only one way to go for SMBs when it comes to purchasing business software -- and that's out of house. Whether it's full-on SaaS (software as a service), where users access all facets of the application through a browser, or a hosted product (including hosted Exchange, where only the server component is off-site and users employ a standard desktop client such as Outlook), either model is simply too cost-effective for SMBs to ignore. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores The current approach taken by x86 CPUs -- to stuff as many processor cores and as much cache memory as will fit on one chip -- will prove impossible to scale beyond a certain point. And adding more, big, hot processor cores may not be the best fit for server roles that call for managing large workloads over long periods of time. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Pundits on parade: What’s next in tech You’ve heard of Christmas in July, that classic advertising gimmick designed to lure shoppers into stores despite the oppressive heat and humidity. We’ll, we’ve got New Year’s in August, which invites you to stay indoors and read “The next big things in IT” -- 15 predictions about the future of technology. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors. August 17, 8:58 a.m. PDT Next for IBM and Sun: Solaris on z mainframes As IBM and Sun laid out a new agreement to have more IBM x86 servers and blades run on Solaris, the two companies were already looking ahead to another partnership, which could see IBM mainframes support the Sun operating system. August 16, 1:40 p.m. PDT Update: IBM extends support for Sun's Solaris Longtime rivals IBM and Sun Microsystems have signed an agreement related to operating systems technologies with IBM extending its support for Solaris to cover more of its x86 servers and blades, the two vendors announced Thursday. August 16, 12:14 p.m. PDT SCO to partners, customers: It's business as usual If The SCO Group's future looks grim, CEO and President Darl McBride apparently hasn't gotten the memo. In a letter to partners and customers filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, McBride said SCO is still committed to doing business as usual even after the company was dealt a crushing blow in its ongoing litigation over Unix copyrights. August 16, 10:24 a.m. PDT Xandros expands Microsoft partnership Linux distributor Xandros is licensing messaging protocols from Microsoft as part of an expansion of the partnership the two companies forged in June. August 15, 11:08 a.m. PDT Forrester: Businesses still saying no to Vista Software incompatibility, the need for hardware upgrades, and comfort with existing versions of Microsoft Windows are all causing businesses that once planned to roll out Windows Vista as fast as consumers to put off their deployments, according to Forrester Research. August 15, 10:28 a.m. PDT Microsoft reacts to kernel hacks, defends Vista Microsoft quietly beefed up a key defensive feature of 64-bit Windows Vista Tuesday to better protect the operating system against hacks that have plagued it for weeks. August 15, 9:30 a.m. PDT Novell doesn't want to be the next SCO Now that Novell has scored a major win for Linux in its legal battle with The SCO Group, it has no interest in becoming like the company it's just defeated and won't mount any copyright-infringement claims over Unix, a spokesman said Tuesday. August 14, 3:43 p.m. PDT Linux unveils kernel project status tracker The nonprofit Linux Foundation has unveiled the Linux Weather Forecast, a Web site aimed at giving people a better sense of the status of specific Linux kernel projects. August 14, 1:49 p.m. PDT SCO says it's down but not out in Linux case The SCO Group acknowledged being dealt a significant blow Friday in its lawsuit against Novell but indicated that it may not be done fighting yet. August 13, 4:37 a.m. PDT 'Vista Capable' suit against Microsoft proceeds A judge in Washington state has denied Microsoft's request to dismiss all claims in a suit alleging that "Windows Vista Capable" stickers the company put on PCs violated consumer protection laws and were an example of deceptive business practices, allowing the case to move ahead toward a jury trial. August 10, 12:21 p.m. PDT Researcher: Vista prevents users playing high-def content Content protection features in Windows Vista are preventing customers from playing high-quality video and audio and harming system performance, even as Microsoft neglects security programs that could protect users, computer researcher Peter Gutmann argued at the USENIX Security Symposium in Boston Wednesday. August 10, 6:03 a.m. PDT Linux seen vying with Windows for platform dominance Having gained industry-wide recognition, Linux now is moving into its second stage of growth, in which it vies with Microsoft Windows as a dominant computing platform, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, said Wednesday. August 9, 5:00 a.m. PDT Novell CEO backs standard Linux apps certification Emphasizing that more must be done to expand the volume of Linux applications, Novell President/CEO Ron Hovsepian proposed Wednesday that a standardized application certification process be developed among different players in the Linux market. August 8, 11:30 a.m. PDT Leaked Vista hotfix packs ready for download Microsoft released the two Windows Vista updates that had leaked to the Internet at the end of July on Tuesday but won't say when it will begin pushing them to users via Windows Update. August 8, 10:35 a.m. PDT Dell to offer Inspirons with Linux in European market Following up on its spring '07 announcement that it will ship Inspiron notebook and desktops with the Linux OS, Dell chose the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco to add the United Kingdom, France, and Germany to its Linux stable of models. August 8, 10:00 a.m. PDT Linux Foundation adds ace open-source attorneys to team The Linux Foundation Wednesday revealed that two attorneys well-known in the open-source community will make up the legal team for the group, which is aimed at protecting the interests of Linux in the community. August 8, 9:49 a.m. PDT Vista, wireless kept off core Olympic IT roster Microsoft's newest OS, Vista, has been relegated to waterboy status at the 2008 Olympic Games, while wireless networking won't even play a supporting role in Beijing. August 8, 9:28 a.m. PDT Survey: Microsoft's IIS may catch Apache in Web server market Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) continues to narrow the gap with the open source Apache Web server, with a survey firm suggesting that the longtime second banana could surpass Apache as early as next year. August 8, 8:35 a.m. PDT Microsoft PsTools bolster Windows admins' utility belts It's been a bit of a roller-coaster week. Fake Steve Jobs peels off his "Mission: Impossible" mask and it's (sad sigh) Dan Lyons. Maybe Webster's can use the incident as the new definition for anticlimactic. Then again, he made me laugh a few times, so I can't complain (would've been better had it been Gary Coleman or Lisa Nowak, though). Then Michelle Madigan from "Dateline NBC" tries to one-up Chris Hansen with a predatory hackers-type undercover story at Defcon and instead wound up doing a shame walk all the way to the parking lot. A week of thrills, chills, and social spills -- I figure I'll calm things down a bit, take a big yoga cleansing breath, and concentrate on the mundane. August 8, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft releases XP, Vista service pack previews Microsoft has quietly released pre-beta code to two forthcoming Windows service packs to testers in the past week, but the company continues to remain vague about when the final code for Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista SP1 will make it to end-users. August 7, 1:37 p.m. PDT Dell buys Zing, launches Ubuntu in Europe In what could be a new assault on the market for handheld gadgets, Dell has agreed to acquire Zing Systems, a company that makes software for distributing and managing music on mobile devices. August 7, 8:31 a.m. PDT Google ups Linux support as OIN licensee Google has increased its support for the open-source Linux operating system by becoming Open Invention Network's first end-user licensee. Set up in 2005, OIN is an intellectual property company focused on acquiring and pooling patents to protect Linux against patent infringement attacks. August 7, 5:35 a.m. PDT Linux kernel maintainer allays fears about forking Making separate but critical points about the path of the Linux kernel, the maintainer of the kernel on Monday stressed there is no need to worry about forking and not to expect a move to the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3. August 7, 5:00 a.m. PDT Mobile Linux group gets wider support A nonprofit organization formed by six of the biggest names in the cellphone business to promote the use of Linux in handsets has gotten wider industry support. August 7, 4:48 a.m. PDT Lenovo to preload Linux on some Thinkpads Lenovo Group will begin shipping Thinkpad notebooks preloaded with Linux from Novell in the fourth quarter of this year, the companies announced Monday. August 7, 4:15 a.m. PDT Running Windows on Macs becomes a race with VMware Fusion out of the gates VMware gave startup Parallels some competition Monday by releasing the first version of its software that lets Windows applications run on Apple's Macintosh computers. August 6, 10:52 a.m. PDT Apple plans iMac desktop upgrade Apple plans to upgrade its iMac desktop PC line on Tuesday with a flashier design and thinner keyboard, according to information published initially on the Web site AppleInsider and repeated widely on other blogs. Apple did not return calls for comment, but has already announced that it will hold a news conference that day at its Cupertino, California, headquarters. August 6, 9:48 a.m. PDT Red Hat Global Desktop is delayed Red Hat has released more details about its plans for Linux on the desktop, including news of a launch delay. August 6, 8:15 a.m. PDT Open source upheaval "I don't use the word 'evil,'" says Mike Evans – though he acknowledges that some of his customers do see proprietary commercial software vendors that way. August 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Update: Microsoft cuts Windows Vista price in China Microsoft has dramatically cut the price of Windows Vista in China in a bid to boost sales of its new operating system. August 3, 4:24 a.m. PDT Microsoft delays Mac Office 2008 Microsoft on Thursday pushed back the release date of Office 2008 for Mac until January, a delay from an earlier promise to deliver the new suite this year. August 2, 9:56 a.m. PDT Acer installing Linux on notebooks, but not Ubuntu Acer did not preinstall the Ubuntu Linux distribution on a batch of Aspire notebooks for sale in Singapore, but instead is installing a different version of the open source operating system, local dealers said. August 1, 5:39 a.m. PDT Microsoft System Center can ease network security fright The night is so dark, it sticks to your skin. The young geek wanders lost through thick foliage, branches grabbing his sleeves, the glow from his pitiful penlight only serving to accentuate the crushing blackness all around. Suddenly branches snap under mysterious feet somewhere ahead, his heart base jumps into his mouth, and he nearly swallows his penlight in a vain attempt to stay hidden. August 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT Businesses having second thoughts about Vista Fewer businesses are now planning to move to Windows Vista than seven months ago, according to a survey by patch management vendor PatchLink, while more said they will either stick with the Windows they have, or turn to Linux or Mac OS X. July 31, 8:12 a.m. PDT Apple's Mac sales rise, iPhone to ship in Europe, Asia Apple on Wednesday announced a profit of $818 million for its fiscal third quarter, which ended June 30, 2007. The company reported earnings of $5.41 billion for the quarter, with record-high Mac sales for the quarter. July 26, 6:48 a.m. PDT > Platforms |
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