Microsoft is trying to get to know its pirates a little better.
Psystar is currently selling Open Computers with Apple's Mac OS X Leopard preinstalled, in what appears to be a clear violation of Apple's software licence agreement.
A UK company that specialises in secondhand software claims to have found a loophole in Microsoft software licensing that has enabled it to continue trading five months after the software giant attempted to stamp out the practice.
Telstra has confirmed it's on track to complete the first phase of its technology overhaul by the end of June, and revealed the transformation has caused a AU$328 million spike in IT costs for the last six months of 2007.
Australia's software piracy rate is dropping, but not as aggressively as some in the industry would like.
Shoving everything into a hosted environment effectively creates a quick and dirty disaster recovery strategy.
Banks obviously have an interest in making consumers feel safe. They are there to protect the customers' money. They want customers to use their online services, too, because the channel offers a lower cost per transaction than a branch. But giving away free security software to make customers feel safe is probably doing more harm than good.
While there's not much that's more fun than stirring up Linux and Windows zealots into a frenzy of spite against each other, we thankfully finally seem to be approaching a more measured universe in which technology choices can be made based on suitability rather than preconception.
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At a technology conference, the debate over subscription pricing, discounting and licensing practices comes alive. Is the business of selling software is due for an extreme makeover?
Developers wanting to use Microsoft's Office Open XML specification will need to brush up on their legal skills.
The increasing use of virtualisation has blurred the lines between physical and virtual worlds, creating a new issue for buyers and sellers of computer software: Software licensing as we know it is dying -- or already dead.
Software makers are moving toward subscription-based licensing, as changing demands from customers dictate a shift from the paradigm of a one-time sale with upgrades, a report says.
New dual-core processors will make conventional software licensing models obsolete. What's next? Additional reading: Intel colonises with chipsets
Red Hat and Intel have settled a licensing hiccup that threatened to prevent the Linux company from contributing to Intel's open-source project--a reminder of the frictions that can arise between the commercial tech world and the open-source community.
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We look at which product can help improve customer satisfaction.
Microsoft slams Google on privacy
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