Microsoft has taken another step in its effort to bring Windows in the world of supercomputing, having finished development of its computer cluster operating system.
A headline like that is bound to draw the ire of the Macintosh faithful. After all, since Microsoft, which can marshal its forces and target competitors at will with lethal precision, hasn't finished-off Apple after all these years (and I'm not saying that this was necessarily a Redmond goal), how on earth can an operating system like Linux spell trouble for Apple?
As was the case with previous Microsoft OS upgrades, developers and users are finding that what once ran well on their systems might not run on Windows XP.
A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.
The big, booming nation is much on the mind of Adobe's CEO. Then there are the little matters of Apple and Microsoft.
In digital documents, Web applications and image editing, Adobe has a healthy head start. But Microsoft is making some noise.
Apple gives the people what they want: Windows on Macs. Geeks proved it could be done through a variety of complicated hacks and now Apple makes it a breeze with a free download. We take Boot Camp for a test run.
Struggling to manage your ever-growing collection of digital photos? Take a look at our Australian review of Microsoft's solution to the problem.
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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