Microsoft is trying to get to know its pirates a little better.
Reversing an earlier decision, Microsoft has today decided to release the Windows 7 Family Pack in Australia, which bundles three upgrade licences for its Windows 7 operating system for $249.
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.
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.
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.
We've got our own open source versus Microsoft stoush going on in New Zealand, with the government as a key player.
Web 2.0 start-ups never die, they just go into stealth mode.
Mac users should heed the call and realise that root user stupidity can always subvert any security in place.
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.
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.
We're big fans of PC Tools Internet Security's ThreatFire component, and the overall toolset that PC Tools provides is robust, but the suite could be both faster and easier to use.
Kaspersky is a strong security suite, but that the extra features available in Internet Security make it worthwhile to pay for, whereas the standard Kaspersky Anti-Virus doesn't offer enough on its own to compare favourably against high-performing, free antivirus programs.
Apple iLife '09 is a great application suite for simple media organising and editing, and the addition of features like face recognition, geotagging and music lessons makes it worth the update.
SQL Server 2005 will cost more but why aren't customers complaining?
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