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  • Microsoft unveils new XP Embedded version

    The software giant makes the second beta of the component-based version of the operating system available to developers.

  • IBM open-source project to release tools

    The Eclipse project is to release an update to its technology that will help development tools from different software companies work together

  • PC buyers face product deactivation

    Buyers of new PCs will have to grapple with Microsoft Product Activation - the most controversial feature ever to appear in Windows. Users who buy PCs with Microsoft Windows XP could find their machine disabled if they change or upgrade as few as four components.

  • Open source and Sun save Christmas

    This Christmas Santa is looking for a new operating system. ZDNet Australia asked five OS companies why Santa should use their product.

  • I've learned to like Linux (but not to love it)

    Continuing his quest to live with Linux, columnist David Coursey finds a bunch of stuff he really likes, some other stuff that he can tolerate, and a few things that still have him scratching his head.

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  • 2007: How was it for security?

    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

  • Fighting Office with open source

    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.

  • The secure Mac: myth or legend?

    Apple computers have built a solid reputation on being virus-free, but is the reality different from the image?

  • Tablet PC increases its vocabulary

    Microsoft on Monday released an update to its Tablet PC operating system that lets a device habla espanol and at the same time parle francais.

  • Sober.d prevention and cure

    What appears to be yet another Microsoft security patch for the MyDoom worm is actually a computer virus. Sober.d (w32.sober.d@mm, also known as Roca.a) is the fourth member of the Sober mass-mailing virus family written in Visual Basic.

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  • Microsoft unveils new Media Player for the Mac

    Microsoft on Friday quietly released a new Macintosh version of its Windows Media Player software.

  • PC buyers face product deactivation

    Buyers of new PCs will have to grapple with Microsoft Product Activation - the most controversial feature ever to appear in Windows. Users who buy PCs with Microsoft Windows XP could find their machine disabled if they change or upgrade as few as four components.

  • Tablet PC increases its vocabulary

    Microsoft on Monday released an update to its Tablet PC operating system that lets a device habla espanol and at the same time parle francais.

  • First Take: Microsoft Live Meeting

    This much-anticipated update to Live Meeting faces stiff competition from WebEx and GoToMeeting.

  • Microsoft: Longhorn goes to pieces

    Microsoft is designing its ever-present Windows operating system to streamline and lower the cost of building and distributing the software.

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