Microsoft's Hyper-V is a solid virtualisation platform that's compatible with a wide range of modern server hardware.
If only for the speed, lightness of being and security alone, Firefox remains our Editors' Choice for best internet browser.
Mozilla Firefox 2 is a winner, beating Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on security, features, and overall cool factor and deserving our Editors' Choice award.
ThinkFree Office 3 is a low-cost alternative to Microsoft Office that lacks advanced tools but offers a free online component that's a handy work in progress for frequent travellers.
Venerable Internet Explorer is showing its age among the hot, young field of browsers led by Mozilla's Firefox.
If Google starts behaving oddly later this year, it might not be due to too many YouTube videos of Britney Spears losing it or a stealth attack by Microsoft's minions, but because of a forthcoming change to the Python programming language.
After years of watching Microsoft rake in billions of dollars from its desktop software franchise, its competitors are pouncing.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
Jeremy Allison, a high-profile open-source programmer, has resigned from Novell because of objections over its patent deal with Microsoft and is moving to Google.
The next great operating systems wars are about to be fought, as traditional computing companies collide with teams representing the mobile phone industry.
Could the spread of the cloud force Australian ISPs to step away from usage-based models and finally offer real, unlimited broadband packages with no hard limits? Not very likely.
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Michael Meeks is a distinguished engineer at Novell. But his current project may be his toughest yet. He is in charge of tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office. And as with anything relating to Microsoft, this involves more than just technology.
IT remains a lively, exciting and suprising place. That makes predictions particularly foolish, but here are some picks for the winners and losers of the next twelve months.
Internet search leader Google filed to go public on Friday, seeking to raise US$2.7 billion in an unusual auction-style offering that will give the founders rare control over the company.
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