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• Changing of the guard: Commonwealth Bank

  Get an insider's look at Commonwealth Bank of Australia's technology operation with chief information officer Michael Harte in the first of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.

• Top alternatives to Microsoft Outlook

  If you're using a Microsoft Windows operating system there is also a good chance that you use Office and Outlook as your email client. But is this really a choice?

• VoIP war stories from the Australian front

  In this feature, ZDNet.com.au speaks to IT managers across the nation to collate their "war stories" deploying Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in their organisations. Cut through the spin and find out what's really happening on the Australian VoIP front.

• Why CIOs aren't nuts for Chrome

  Google's recently launched web browser, Chrome, will have to overcome a number of major obstacles before it can break the business ubiquity of Internet Explorer and counter the rise of Firefox.

• Linux: Who got it right, who got it very wrong?

  Who predicted Linux servers would outnumber Windows servers by 2006? Who said one in five enterprise desktops would be Linux-based by 2008? We look back at the bad (and good) predictions made about Linux over the past decade.

• Q&A: Adobe on taking on services and Microsoft

  Much of the future success of Adobe Systems hinges on the work done by its Platform Business Unit, which is headed by Kevin Lynch, the company's chief software architect.

• Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

  A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory

• Australian Tax Office: Bill Gibson, CIO

  Bill Gibson, CIO of the Australian Tax office, spoke to ZDNet.com.au about why he doesn't completely trust open source software; how the ATO handles security and why competing vendors will have to learn to work together.

• Microsoft hijacks virtualisation: What's in a name?

  Virtualisation was high on the list of important technologies at the Windows Server 2008 launch yesterday and not just one or two sorts of virtualisation. By the time the show was over, seven distinct flavours were on display. Some of them looked oddly familiar.

• Can Microsoft be trusted on OOXML covenants?

  Developers wanting to use Microsoft's Office Open XML specification will need to brush up on their legal skills.

• Who's afraid of the $200 Linux PC?

  Cheap PCs with a Linux operating system seem to have hit the users' sweet spots, with taking the plunge into the alternate OS not nearly as hard as users had thought.

• 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.

• War rages on over Microsoft's OOXML plans

  What is it about Microsoft's proposed OOXML standard that has boffins hurling death threats at each other?

• 10 tips for helping users keep Outlook data secure

  Your users probably understand the importance of safeguarding the data on their computers. But they don't always realise that some of that data is contained in Outlook. Here are a few suggestions you can share with them to help them protect that Outlook data.

• Adobe plots its path on the Web

  Best known for apps like Photoshop, Adobe is relying on Kevin Lynch to break out of the shrink-wrapped software business.

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