Monday was the last day on which Windows XP will be sold as a boxed product or licensed to PC manufacturers.
With days to spare, the Mozilla Foundation beat its 10-day goal of 1 million Firefox downloads.
Adobe has knocked open-source creative tools with executive John Loiacono claiming open-source software is not right for everything or everyone.
Open source accounts for between 25 and 70 percent of all software in Australian, Chinese, Indian and Korean companies, according to a recent IDC survey.
The Free Software Foundation is set to release the General Public License version 3 at noon on Friday (in the US).
Novell's Miguel de Icaza is working on a technology that he says can replicate Microsoft's vaunted software development platform on Linux. Additional reading: The beginning of the end for Microsoft?
Bringing any new system into an established organisation, especially when it is a concept like open source, is a matter of selling the idea.
Each day, members of the Windows team gather inside a "shiproom" to go over the bugs that remain, and to debate which of these can still be fixed in the days left until the product is declared finished.
Linux Australia's president believes the organisation is stuck in no man's land, and has questioned its survival. Will someone tell him he's sitting on a pot of gold?
The next instalment of Windows will act as the cornerstone in Microsoft's ongoing battle with IBM and Linux.
Michael Robertson, CEO of software company Lindows, has revealed himself as the formerly anonymous donor of US$200,000 in prize money in a contest to translate the Linux operating system to Microsoft's Xbox video game console.
AMD's 64-bit processor turns one today, but is the chipmaker's marriage with Microsoft on the rocks?
The International Olympic Committee doesn't believe wireless security is good enough for their IT set-up at Athens in 2004.
The next version of the heart of the Linux operating system is expected by June, according to project founder Linus Torvalds.
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