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Microsoft’s OneCare Finishes Last in Anti-virus Tests
A well-regarded anti-virus testing laboratory has released its latest quarterly results, and placed Microsoft’s OneCare anti-virus solution squarely at the bottom of the list. In each of three categories— viruses, macros, worms and scripts; backdoors, Trojans and other malware; and a third category, combining the results of the first two—OneCare received the worst score out…
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Is a Linux Desktop Avalanche Coming?
Slowly, ever so slowly, the Linux desktop has been picking up momentum. It keeps getting better and better, but Microsoft’s monopoly has kept many PC users from realizing that there really is a viable alternative to Windows. However, that’s about to change. Just like a few more snowflakes can turn a quiet, snowy mountainside into…
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Power Supplies Should Give Dell Food for Thought
Michael Dell has promised a wide-ranging, top-to-bottom housecleaning and restructuring to get his namesake company back on track. That is all well and good, but maybe he should share a plate of ribs in Austin with a company that, by putting some smarts in power supplies, could help Dell and help the tech industry as…
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Free Software Foundation Courts Hardware Vendors
The FSF (Free Software Foundation) is expanding beyond its software boundaries, and reaching out to hardware vendors to encourage them to “work with the free software community” to establish a “mutually beneficial relationship.” It’s all spelled out in a just-published white paper. On March 1, the FSF released “The Road to Hardware Free from Restrictions,”…
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Microsoft Learning Center Targets Beginner Programmers
REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft has launched a new Web site aimed at helping novices learn to write applications and build their own Web sites. Capping its thrust to tap the nascent market for tools for beginners, Microsoft launched its new Beginner Developer Learning Center on March 1. Dan Fernandez, Microsoft’s lead product manager for Visual Studio Express,…
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Oracle Buyout of Hyperion to Hasten BI Sector Consolidation
Oracle’s $3.3 billion acquisition of Hyperion Solutions, a specialist in the field of corporate performance management, has set the fox among the chickens in the broader business intelligence market. This has long been a relatively quiet and sometimes prosperous sector of the enterprise software market, where the corporate acquisitions have been far less costly and…
