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Any OS Can Have a Bad Day

I've seen a certain amount of gloating recently in the open source press about a memo from Bill Gates that the Seattle PI recently dug up. You know the one, probably: Bill tries to install some software from the net, and ends up flaming his people for a couple of pages with choice bits like The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. But so what?


5 OSS/Freeware Tools for System Protection

Information Week has an interesting piece up about open source disaster recovery tools. It covers a lot of the good applications that can come to the rescue when you need to recover data or revive a computer. They include SystemRescueCD, BackTrack, Partedmagic, TestDisk and more. In addition to these open source tools, there are also a number of great freeware products in this general category, especially for preventative maintenance. Here are five of them, with a couple of open source gems thrown in, that can help you avoid disaster.


Wine 1.0 Released After 15 Years of Development

In what may be one of the longest development and testing processes in the history of programming (15 years, actually), Wine 1.0 is now available for free download at the project's Web site. Commonly used to play Windows-only games on computers with a Linux operating system, thousands of other applications and tools also work under Wine, including such notables as Photoshop CS2 and WinRAR.

 



Open Windows?

Writing in today's Wall Street Journal, technology columnist Lee Gomes has a series of modest suggestions for Microsoft as they try to frame the course of Windows 7. These include such common-sense ideas as cutting down the number of SKUs and implementing Time Machine-like system recovery features. But one of his suggestions seems even more outlandish: that Windows should become some sort of crazy open source software.


Is Microsoft Going to Acquire Powerset?

While it's still only a rumor, VentureBeat is reporting that Microsoft has agreed to buy Silicon Valley semantic search engine Powerset for over $100 million--apparently to be announced next month. Powerset's search technology uses the open source cluster-based technology Hadoop, which provides fast answers to queries by using the resources of many computers. We wrote about both Hadoop and Powerset here, and got to hear from Powerset's Chad Walters. Based on what I saw Chad demonstrate, and Microsoft's need to catch up in search, I won't be surprised if this rumor is true.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Firefox 3 gets four percent market share--in just one week...

InfoWorld's top ten Firefox extensions, plus some of our favorites...

On his last day, Bill Gates says Microsoft/Yahoo deal is unlikely...

As Gates exits Microsoft, will the company become friendlier to open source?...

Does Yahoo's reorg signal a cloud computing move?...



Microsoft Delivers Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Virtualization (RTM)

There's no stopping the virtualization race. Microsoft has just released to manufacturing WIndows Server 2008 Hyper-V. The Release Candidate of its? virtualization application is found here.? Hyper-V is hypervisor-based virtualization software that allows you to run multiple operating systems concurrently, including Linux, on one installation of Windows Server.


Reaction to News of Microsoft's Support of Open Source Census

When we first told you about the Open Source Census back in April, there were already a number of sponsors, with more expected to sign on in the future. Well, today, another sponsor was announced and the name may surprise you -- or maybe not. Microsoft. As expected, some open source supporters are in a twist over the news, while others are waxing philosophical.

 



The ODF Alliance Backs the EU's Call for Open Source

As we reported this week, European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes recently took a very tough stance in calling for governments throughout Europe to use open source software and adopt open standards. Kroes is the European Union's top antitrust official, and her comments were largely interpreted as a jab at Microsoft. (The EU has recently levied the largest fines in its history against the Redmond giant.) Now, the ODF Alliance--the organization that backs Open Document Format--is applauding Kroes' comments. The ODF Alliance's position isn't exactly a surprise, but it's another step in what is becoming a coordinated march.


EU Official Tells Governments to Go Open Source

The European Union's top antitrust official has called on governments throughout Europe to use open source software, in what's being interpreted as a jab at Microsoft, the Associated Press is reporting.ﾠ Choosing technology formats that can be used by different vendors ﾗ often without paying a fee ﾗ is a very smart business decision, AP reports European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said. Is this really part of the EU's tough stance against Microsoft?


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