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An eagerly-awaited report into the use of open source software in the UK education sector was published on Friday, and contained evidence that schools could significantly cut their IT spending by moving to non-proprietary software.
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Google has launched a beta for hosted e-mail accounts that feature the user's domain instead of gmail.com.
Bill Gates, the man who started Microsoft and has been its public face throughout its three decades of existence, plans to step away from daily work at the company.
Microsoft's business unit chief is on the lookout for ad-supported rivals to the Web-based service.
Sun Microsystems has recruited one of its biggest customers yet for its StarOffice software, signing a contract with the Ontario Ministry of Education covering 2.5 million students.
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A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.
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Scott Charney's carreer has taken him from prosecutor in Bronx County to vice chairman of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Now he's literally looking for trouble as Microsoft's chief security strategist.
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