Asus has announced the final specifications for the first Eee Box desktop version of its popular Eee PC subnotebook — and it will include Windows XP, which has now been given a reprieve on some desktops, as well as Eee PC-type notebooks.
Monday was the last day on which Windows XP will be sold as a boxed product or licensed to PC manufacturers.
The founder of the Ubuntu open-source operating system, Mark Shuttleworth, has called for Ubuntu developers to fix all software flaws found in the operating system, including, crucially, those in inherited source code.
Microsoft has announced that its Hyper-V hypervisor is finally available, but analysts have questioned whether large enterprises will adopt the product as their sole virtualisation technology.
If you were to ask Bill Gates what life will be like when he stops working full time at Microsoft, he'd have to get back to you.
The next great operating systems wars are about to be fought, as traditional computing companies collide with teams representing the mobile phone industry.
Canonical on Tuesday released its first publicly available developer edition of Ubuntu for mobile internet devices.
An IBM X-Force security researcher has promised to exploit massive holes in Windows Vista's defences at the upcoming Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.
Apple Mac users have a good reason to feel more secure than their PC-using cousins: compared to malicious software created for Windows systems, malware writers have left OS X in relative peace.
Just days before he finally hangs up his hat as Microsoft's figurehead and inspiration (on 27 June), ZDNet.com.au looks back at Bill Gates' career over the past 30 years.
HTC has announced the Australian availability of the Touch Diamond in Sydney today, with the phone set to hit these shores between the end of July and early August.
Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix — m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone — last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
The current buzz around virtualisation may sound familiar to anyone with experience of high-end computing's origins — so what makes today's scenario so different?
Multicore processors have been around since 2005, when Intel shipped its first dual-core processor and the advantages of many cores have been widely touted, but a working model for costing software to work with them is still on its way.
Non-profit organisations are keen to take advantage of emerging technologies such as social networking for fundraising and software as a service for administration, but a lack of perceived support options is keeping them away from open source software and focused on traditional providers such as Microsoft.
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.
With all eyes on the Australian iPhone release, HTC has stolen some of the limelight with the release of the Touch Diamond. Coming in glossy black, with a large touch screen and an array of features, everything about this phone screams iPhone rival.
A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory
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Although Microsoft is pushing hard to move everyone to the latest version of Windows, there are some market realities that are going to keep Windows XP around for some time — likely well beyond the current June deadline for large computer makers to stop selling the older operating system.
The Acer Aspire One is better than most netbooks and is fantastic for anyone who wants a small, cheap machine on which to type and surf the Web. However, its battery life lets it down slightly.
Adobe's latest incarnation of Acrobat is top of the line, highly featured software. Just make sure you need all the bells and whistles before you pay the AU$999 price tag.
The second generation TouchSmart as just a panel PC is gorgeous. The AU$1,999 price is fantastic as well — but we can't help but feel that there's so much more potential in the touchscreen aspect being left, ahem, untapped.
Toshiba, who built one of the world’s first notebooks, clearly has a head start in the race to put a laptop on every desk. The AU$1,210 Satellite M300 is a step in the right direction, being a modest, yet high quality desktop replacement at a reasonable price.
If only for the speed, lightness of being and security alone, Firefox remains our Editors' Choice for best internet browser.
The 8110 isn't so much an updated model as its virtually identical to the previously released Pearl 8120, excluding the fact that the 8110 includes a GPS chipset, but is without Wi-Fi.
The HP EVA4400 is a Storage Area Network (SAN) system that provides data storage and security on a much larger scale than a simple RAID or NAS system. We found it to be a reliable and scalable high-end data system.
The Dell Vostro range, which comes in both notebook and desktop form factors, is designed for the small business market. We found the Vostro 1510 to have good performance for a mid-range notebook — but performance comes at the expense of battery life.
Hardy Heron is an incremental set of advances on earlier versions, but all the advances are in the right direction. Unfortunately, a known and unfixed bug means we can't currently recommend it for enterprise use.
Of the less well known open source browsers, Maxthon has been gaining attention as the second most popular Web browser in its home state of China. Based on IE's Trident engine, we found it to be highly customisable; however its lack of support makes it difficult to recommend for business.
New storage technology can be frankly pornographic: it's big, it's sexy and you want it slammed into your rack right now — but is a long term relationship more satisfying?
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.
It's just two months until Microsoft plans to pull the plug on Windows XP — arguably its best operating system to date.
When creating a secure, locked down IT system — for something that is directly responsible for handling cash transactions — would you choose the most popular, most targeted operating system?
You wait for some hot news on smartphone software -- well, I do -- and then several bits come along at once. This week has seen some seriously fascinating movements in the field -- but what does it all mean for your mobile?
Is Apple keeping the iPod Touch and iPhone platform closed to third party developers to protect its impressive record on security?
So, it seems the WOW -- for Microsoft's Windows Vista -- is not now, but sometime in the future, maybe.
Symantec is about to launch Norton 360 in Australia and although the product seems to have some interesting features, it will take more than marketing hype to persuade me that the company has stopped making bloated and unreliable software.
The only people who won't eventually move to Windows Vista are the Linux and Mac enthusiasts.
If you ever meet Microsoft Australia's Jeff Putt, kindly ask him to return the office equipment he keeps stealing.
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In the second part of his interview, Defence CIO Greg Farr talks about outsourcing, the skills crisis and reveals his most urgent IT priority.
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