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Bill Gates has taken another jab at Linux in an e-mail to customers published on Microsoft's Web site Thursday in which he sings the praises of software interoperability and his company's ability to provide it. "Open source is a methodology for licensing and/or developing software -- that may or may...
A free software program to help parents police illegal movie and music files on their household computers is garnering mixed reviews. The application, called Parent File Scan, was unveiled last week by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) -- alongside an announcement of the organization'...
A "bot" -- a piece of malicious software that can spread and function much like a computer virus or worm -- is seizing on vulnerable MySQL database software running on Windows systems to spread and scan for new victims. While the MySQL Bot, also known as the Spool CLC, is mitigated by the limited nu...
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week released what it described as three key recommendations, or pre-standard specifications, that will address performance and reliability issues for Web services, the joining of software applications inside and among different organizations' IT architecture...
Microsoft has taken another step to clamp down on pirated software, announcing yesterday that it will require participation in its Windows Genuine Advantage program to get updates and downloads from its Web site. The software giant did not go so far as to cut off users from its automatic updates, wh...
Electronics giant Toshiba this week announced new software that turns mobile phones into remote access controllers for PCs, allowing users to access the Internet and e-mail with a PC desktop displayed on a handset. The software, dubbed "Ubiquitous Viewer," provides access to Windows computers and in...
Microsoft may not be delivering its next-generation version of Windows desktop and server software known as "Longhorn" as early as expected or promised, but the company has just released the Avalon graphical interface, formerly a key component of Longhorn, for developers. Longhorn is not expected un...
Biometrics technology is nothing new. Biometrics security devices have been available in one form or another for several decades with little fanfare. However, the prospects for developing biometrics as a reliable security device for consumer computers were viewed by many industry watchers as a nice ...
Drawing on the expanded partnership they announced last year, Microsoft and SAP have created the Portal Development Kit (PDK) for Microsoft's .Net platform on SAP's NetWeaver, promising the benefits of integration and interoperability. The two software heavies said that with the development tools fo...
As security experts warn that search engines can be used by attackers to search out vulnerable systems, new software shows that search technology can also be used to promote security: McAfee's SiteDigger 2.0 uses Google to learn where the computer systems of organizations are vulnerable to exposure...
Bill Gates made a big announcement about a deal with TiVo, the digital video recording company, but it was the Microsoft head who might have wanted to hit rewind as his presentation crashed to a blue Windows screen during his Consumer Electronic Show (CES) keynote yesterday. Gates, making the presen...
As security holes continue to multiply in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, consumers and enterprise users alike are paying more attention to alternative browsers. After all, Microsoft hasn't upgraded its starship software package since before the release of Windows XP. Numerous alternative bro...
Microsoft and its customers got no holiday break from security concerns as Symantec said it had confirmed three more yet-to-be-patched vulnerabilities in Windows, some of which can be used to launch denial-of-service attacks. Symantec said all three of the flaws are considered serious, and Denmark-b...
Software giant Microsoft announced an extension of its technology and cross-licensing deal with access infrastructure solutions specialist Citrix, in a show of support for both the smaller software company and Windows Terminal Server. The five-year agreement, which was expected in the industry given...
The end of this year marks the halfway point in the first decade of the twenty-first century, and the tech industry has already gone through a number of dramatic changes. Compaq has ceased to exist as a company, having been fully integrated into HP, while IBM has gone the other way, divesting itself...
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