To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers.
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.
LimitNone, a small software development company, is seeking nearly US$1 billion in damages in a lawsuit that accuses Google of reneging on a partnership with the small company and misappropriating its trade secrets for its Google Apps online service.
Nokia plans to acquire the rest of Symbian, open source the mobile operating system and launch its first handsets in two years.
Why don't young designers know QuarkXPress? Because the company ignored and failed to invest in Australia, according to Quark's CEO, Ray Schiavone.
A computer program to streamline Victoria's criminal justice system is running nine years late and could cost four times as much as planned.
A Vista-based successor to Microsoft's Windows XP-based Embedded system, used for retail and gaming systems, will include features such as disk encryption and anti-malware -- but its core will be seven times larger.
Yesterday, Microsoft sent out a press release, which is not uncommon. What is uncommon is to get one unconnected with a product launch, an event or some major change in strategy.
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.
The explosively popular BlackBerry has recently had a new incarnation: the BlackBerry Bold. Will it be an iPhone killer? Check out our photo gallery and decide for yourself.
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.
How do the three leading education-oriented ultraportable notebooks stack up? Take our visual tour to find out.
For a man a few months away from leaving his job, Bill Gates has a lot on his mind.
In 2005, Canadian wireless company Research in Motion (RIM) came from relative obscurity to steal a global lead in e-mail equipped mobile devices with its BlackBerry. Could 2008 be the year that BlackBerry falls off its perch?
Symbian, Sony Ericsson and Motorola claim they are confident Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech will leave them unscathed, despite analyst suggestions to the contrary.
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.
In 2007 leading industry watchers speculated on the trends affecting the market, and while some proved right, others proved otherwise. Discovers how expert predictions fared on Vista, low-cost laptops and outsourcing.
The long-awaited KDE4 is finally out the door after an extended gestation and a rescheduled launch date. In this inside look at KDE4, we see what all the fuss is about.
This is a powerful performance monitoring and reporting system for servers running VMware ESX Server. Web-based dashboards show the resources in use by servers and their VMs, while the reporting module delivers printable reports of historical data.
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.
If only for the speed, lightness of being and security alone, Firefox remains our Editors' Choice for best internet browser.
The old adage “good things come in small packages” certainly applies to the QNAP TS-409, a silver and black cube whose small dimensions sport a raft of features.
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.
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.
Zoho Show is an online-only presentation application. Not only is it relatively powerful, but it's completely free to use. Whether you're a businessperson, teacher, student, sales rep, or anyone looking to create a cool presentation, Zoho Show is well worth a try.
Windows Server 2008 is easier to install and manage than previous versions, and has many new and improved features that should encourage organisations to upgrade.
It may not be a quantum leap compared with the 838 Pro, but the TyTN II maintains what power users loved in the previous iteration -- with a few extras.
Its excellent, sleek design doesn't cover for its sluggish performance.
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?
Today, Symantec released Norton 360 Version 2.0, but I wonder whether the security giant has learned from its past mistakes?
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?
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.
Aussie students win global software competition
A group of Australian students have just been crowned winners of the Imagine Cup, a global competition in soft… Watch it now
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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Is the cloud your disaster recovery solution?
The more things change… 
Why eBay tried to screw Aussie users
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