Toxic applications: Defusing the ticking time bombs

Every business suffers with toxic applications - mission-critical applications with undetected time bombs waiting to explode, often when least expected. We must control the internal quality of these critic...

Microsoft appeals for stay of Word injunction

In its "emergency motion," Microsoft asked an appeals court to halt an injunction that would force the company to stop selling Word and also to speedily hear the company's appeal, once it is filed

Symantec airs dirty Web sites in public

The "dirtiest" 100 Web sites have an average of 18,000 threats, with 40 of them each exceeding 20,000, according to security vendor Symantec.

Google switches on Apps Script

Google Apps Script works mainly within the Spreadsheets app to automate various processes. For example, you can automate the sending of emails based on data held in a spreadsheet.

Microsoft, Linux Foundation Team Up Over Legalities

he two organizations haven't been what you'd call snuggle-buddies, but they're certainly adamant about certain aspects of software enough to agree and collectively petition a legal group for redress of a document. In a somewhat surprising move, Microsoft and the Linux Foundation have joined forces in writing and signing a letter to the American Law Institute asking for the group to hold off on submitting a document entitled "Principles of the Law of Software Contracts" for adjustments. ...The section of the principles that bites Microsoft's and the Linux Foundation's bottoms is a part concerning warranties and defects in software. According to a ChannelWeb article, "one warranty would make software developers liable for infringing on patents and copyrights, while the other would make contributors to open-source software liable for material defects in the software. The law currently allows contributors and licensors of open source to avoid liability by offering their wares on an 'as-is' basis."

I4i says not out to destroy Microsoft Word

The chairman of the company that has won a landmark injunction against Microsoft says his goal is not to see Microsoft Word pulled from store shelves

Enterprise guide to saving on wireless

As mobility is increasingly being elevated from a "nice to have" feature to a "must have" for companies, businesses stand to benefit by diligently managing wireless service costs

Signs show Linux moving into the driver's seat

A steady stream of manufacturers are requesting Linux drivers for their hardware, suggesting growing adoption of Linux operating systems among enterprises.

CentOS Main Admin AWOL

The CentOS Development team had a routine meeting today with Lance Davis in attendance. During the meeting a majority of issues were resolved immediately

Microsoft scraps Windows 7 E

The plan calls for Microsoft to ship Windows 7 with Internet Explorer, but present a 'ballot screen' in which users in Europe can decide whether they want Internet Explorer or another browser

Motorola Sholes to run on Android 2.0 operating system aka Éclair

a similar architecture to the chip used in the Apple iPhone 3GS, and rumour has it that there is a 3G UMTS and WCDMA network is also being worked

Netscape Founder Backs New Browser

Last month, Google said it would build an operating system, also called Chrome, with its principal function being to support its browser

Shuttleworth Offers Canonical Employees to Debian

we'll both need to work together, we'll need to make compromises or we'll need to contribute effort to the other side. If the Debian community is willing to consider a December

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Windows 7 web browsers

Extensive testing by the blogging crew at BetaNews is offering some insight into how Windows 7 will perform when it hits the real world. The results are encouraging, but not absolutely thrilling: Based on aggregate tests of five major web browsers (in various recent/current versions), Windows XP is still the faster operating system when it comes to the internet experience. Specifically, XP is an average of 13 percent faster at running your browser than Windows 7 is.

The final version of Windows 7 as it will appear when it ships in October was used for the testing.

The good news is that Windows 7 is substantially faster than Windows Vista when it comes to the web: XP's most up-to-date version is a full 29 percent faster than Vista, so Windows 7 has closed that performance gap quite a bit. Compared directly, Win 7 is 17 percent faster than Vista.

The results are largely consistent across the board: From browser to browser, each tends to run fastest on XP, second-fastest on Windows 7, and slowest on Vista. Based on BetaNews's tests, Chrome is the speed champion regardless of OS, with Safari close behind -- though both perform even better on XP-loaded systems. The performance differential is lowest with Opera and Internet Explorer, where all three operating systems tend to turn in about the same performance scores (though, again, XP tends to be fastest, just by a small margin).

So is any of this cause for alarm? No, not really. Despite numbers that look a little scary, a 13 percent performance differential is actually not much to worry about, and most users probably won't notice the extra fractions of a second that Windows 7 takes to open web pages and do other internet operations. I wouldn't let these numbers keep you from upgrading from XP to Windows 7, if that's been your plan.

Also, remember that it took some time for Windows XP to evolve into a suitably fast and robust operating system, and the OS has had nearly a decade and three service packs to streamline the way it runs.

Robot Operating System

Could robots run on a universal operating system in the near future? Perhaps - the Robot Operating System idea looks as though it will happen in due time, and we hope that it will help bridge gaps between various robots since they are more or less unique at the moment with each one built from the ground up with proprietary operating systems. The Robot Operating System aims to change that by creating a space that allows programmers to code functions for robots without having to know the robot intimately. This type of programming can then be adapted and tailored to individual robots. This is a similar approach that led to the PC boom many decades ago, so could we see the same thing happen for robots this time round

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Linux distro mints “Gloria” KDE release | Linux Plus

The Linux Mint project has been releasing versions of its Ubuntu 9.04-based Linux Mint 7 Gloria distro over the last few months and has now released a final KDE version. Gloria KDE Community Edition offers various ease of use enhancements, ... Gloria KDE Community Edition offers various ease of use enhancements, and greatly improved installation features