In a test of over a thousand Web sites in Europe, Linux-based servers were found to be faster and more reliable than sites based on Microsoft's IIS Web server software.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
Apple computers have built a solid reputation on being virus-free, but is the reality different from the image?
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.
A general rise in technical literacy driven by gadgets such as the iPod could be evidence that 'geekery' as a personality trait is becoming more pervasive.
Microsoft confirmed on Monday that German authorities had arrested a man suspected of writing and releasing a program widely used to surreptitiously control computers on the Internet.
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.
Being a Microsoft or Java fanatic may be admirable in some IT roles. IT development management isn't one of them.
Microsoft's US$5 million fund for rewarding informants for leads on virus attacks has snagged its first success with the arrest of a man in Germany who has confessed to the release of the Sasser worm, the software giant said Saturday.
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.
Developers of alternative office software need to place more emphasis on ease of conversion if they ever wish to dethrone Microsoft. We test six office suites in the market.
A year on, and the company's US$1 million tip-off program has nabbed just one (alleged) virus writer. Is it a bust?
The software maker introduces a version of Linux aimed at enterprise customers, hoping to move the open-source software beyond servers and low-cost PCs.
Microsoft has released Service Pack 2 for Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000. This software update definitely increases the security and stability of ISA, and administrators who manage ISA servers need to give it a close look.
We catch up with a polyglot IT boss whose work keeping the professional golf tour running in Europe comes to a head at the British Open championship in a few days.
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The cash-strapped UK National Museum of Computing is home to an exhibition of the evolution of British PCs.… Watch it now
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