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• The big 27,000: Win7 ensnares Centrelink

  As Microsoft launches Windows 7 in Australia, major federal welfare agency Centrelink is planning to migrate to the new operating system by mid next year. Will other companies follow its example, or will Microsoft see the same lack of interest for Windows 7 as it did for Vista?

• Telstra must move quickly on NBN

  Telstra should move quickly to negotiate as favourable a strategic NBN position possible, analysts have warned after the government's bombshell announcement yesterday that it would separate the telco's retail and wholesale operations if the company didn't voluntarily separate first.

• Tasmania's NBN shrouded in mystery

  Tasmanians have complained they're being left in the dark over the state's leg of the National Broadband Network (NBN), despite the Federal and Tasmanian Governments insisting construction could start within weeks.

• $53m NBN study incomplete: Opposition

  The Federal Opposition has criticised the government's plans to spend $53 million on its National Broadband Network implementation study, claiming the document would be flawed due to the lack of an included rigorous cost/benefit analysis.

• Sun buyout leaves Aussies divided

  Opinions are mixed amongst Australian chief information officers, partners and analysts on whether Oracle's plans to buy Sun Microsystems will end up with a positive or negative result.

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  IE zero day: Money v tubes? Choose one

  In light of the unpatched IE zero day, AusCERT has cautiously advised organisations to "consider" using an alternative browser; or even kill browsing altogether. For organisations with locked down computers, is it time to support two browsers?

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  Aussie PCs valuable for all the wrong reasons

  When foreign markets are willing to pay twice as much for your exports, it's usually a good sign. Unfortunately for Australia, the goods being traded are compromised PCs but why are Australians worth twice as much as Americans?

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  Limelight kills botnets better than cops do

  Botnet operators have become public enemy number-one as consumers, businesses and governments fall foul to identity theft, DDoS attacks and spam. Yet no one appears to be able to stop the spread of bots -- except maybe the media.

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• Changing of the guard: Westpac

  Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of the technology operation of Westpac Banking Corporation and its subsidiary St George in the last of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.

• Looking beneath the net neutrality surface

  IBRS advisor Guy Cranswick argues that the use of net neutrality is an aggressive manoeuvre to retain market share and withhold change in the telecommunications market.

• Exiting Microsoft deals risky

  Several factors have combined recently to make a number of Australian organisations reconsider their Microsoft Enterprise Agreements.

• Gershon's Groundhog Day

  What Gershon proposes is nothing more or less than a wide-scale, transformational change program. These unfortunately, rarely meet with complete success.

• Virtual desktop claims fall short

  Australian research shows that the tightening of IT budgets from the economic downturn, and mounting evidence that virtual desktops are more expensive than well-managed full desktops, will dampen enthusiasm for this technology in 2009.

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  Software vendors still choosing 'flashy' features above security: IBRS analyst

  IT vendors are still too interested in building flashy products instead of ensuring their software is bug free, which is an unsustainable situation, according to James Turner, industry analyst at IBRS.

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