Microsoft on Monday is announcing that it will release in November a public test version of Office 2010.
Microsoft is set to announce on Monday that it is ready with a second beta version of its Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 developer tools.
Microsoft has unveiled a technical preview of its newly christened Microsoft Office Web Apps services.
Melbourne IT has emerged as the first Australian organisation to bring VMware's new cloud offering vCloud Express to market in Australia.
When more than 200,000 student laptops for the Federal Government's Digital Education Revolution go out to NSW schools, they will be running Windows 7 instead of Windows XP as first announced, following a successful trial in three schools.
One of the big problems of the internet is that is practically impossible to keep up-to-date on preferred topics. You can limit your sources, but this can mean missing a lot of valuable data.
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala was officially released overnight and marked the eleventh release of the distribution. It's attractive, polished and measured, but fails "the grandma test".
I've been playing around with a beta build of Firefox's 3.6 browser for some time, and while it's been completely stable, its new tab behaviour has annoyed me.
Two entrepreneurs flying the flag for Australia at the prestigious DemoFall 09 showcase in Silicon Valley last week made their presence known in the best possible way: by beating 70 other attendees to be named the best enterprise product.
We take one of Intel's new 34nm SSD drives for a spin and find it a worthy hard disk replacement, delivering massive speed jumps when loading software. But watch out for a penalty when writing data.
In the past few days French-based Linux company Mandriva has released a beta version of its upcoming Mandriva 2010 Linux distribution. We took it for a spin in a virtualised VMware environment.
As Microsoft unveils the next version of its flagship Office suite, we ask: is it revolution or evolution?
This week Symantec made beta versions of its flagship Norton Internet Security 2010 and Antivirus 2010 products available for testing. We put NIS 2010 through its paces to see how it stacks up.
The real beauty of the Palm Pre is the webOS. Check it out in action with these screenshots of the various features and apps of the Pre.
There appears to be no doubt that Windows 7 will be significantly more popular in Australia than Vista was, a reality that will help Microsoft entrench its wider software portfolio even further into the enterprise.
It's a hands-on preview of Snow Leopard with a few goodies Apple hasn't shown off; iPhone 3GS' are now available in colors, thanks to overheating; and the iPhone 3.1 software beta is revealed!
The public beta for Microsoft Security Essentials, the free replacement for Live OneCare, is now closed, but that doesn't mean you've missed your chance to see what it's like. In this First Look video, we look at the new interface, the new features, and the new limitations of the latest free antivirus to enter the market. Should AVG and Avira be scared? Watch and find out.
The next iteration of Flash tools have gone into beta and provide some concrete evidence of what Adobe was going on about with its Thermo twaddle of the past year.
Microsoft impressed many with its Windows 7 beta, and the new Release Candidate looks even better. More than mere bug fixes, the Windows 7 Release Candidate improves on device management and search-term highlighting, and includes support for a virtual XP mode to run older programs.
Apple has recently released a beta of its upcoming iPhone 3.0 software. Although it comes with added functionality, the performance is laggy and some of the touted features are lacking.
Thecus' N5500 is, like all of Thecus' lines, best suited to the professional user who doesn't mind tweaking the unit to get the most out of it.
Microsoft Security Essentials is recommended for those who want something to set and ignore, but users who want more robust configuration choices or don't want to contribute to the cloud should look elsewhere.
Developers make good stress testers, and the initial Wave service has had a lot of testing in the last few months. We take a ride on the wave, which should be opening to a wider beta program at the end of September.
Windows 7 looks like the operating system that we've all been waiting for. Despite its imperfections, it shows a lot of promise for the future while presenting a stable platform that can compete comfortably with OS X.
There's a lot to like in the first beta of Exchange 2010, from storage improvements to new high availability tools and better integration with the cloud, not to mention Outlook Web Access support for Firefox and Safari. But not everyone will be impressed by the lack of a 32-bit GUI management client.
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