It’s not a bad strategy. But I’m a little surprised it’s are back at it with Photo Gallery. The first ad was pretty cute, I thought, but also seemed to get the message home. I’m interested to see the approach the company will take when it moves on to other Windows products.

Microsoft is clearly trying [...]

The Linux Foundation is running a “We’re Linux” video contest, asking participants to create videos that “demonstrate what Linux means to those who use it and inspire others to try it.”
Yet it’s the passion underlying Linux and the open-source movement that makes my job so much fun, and it fuels my desire to wake [...]

So what does all this really mean for consumers? Well, it could mean more sophisticated devices at lower prices. Each processor and piece of hardware that is added to a phone costs money and takes up valuable real estate within the phone. If manufacturers can reduce the number of chips used, they can reduce their [...]

“Micron believes that the Delaware Court’s ruling applies to the remaining patents in (a separate) California case and expects to file a motion with the California Court seeking a ruling of unenforceability based on the Delaware Court’s decision,” Micron said.
On Friday, Judge Sue L. Robinson, in the U.S. District Court in Delaware, ruled that Rambus’ [...]

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Linux shop Xandros is launching the Presto “instant-on” platform for PCs and laptops at the Demo 09 conference.
If you want to try Presto, it will be only $19.95 when it ships in April. The beta is free until then.
It’s probably a fine operating system by itself. For it and [...]

The same applies to the company’s software revenue. That number climbed 8 percent, while services revenue dropped a couple of percentage points. The same figures at fixed exchange rates increased 14 percent and 5 percent, respectively.

During a conference call late today, Oracle’s braintrust–CEO Larry Ellison, co-presidents Safra Catz and Chuck Phillips, and CFO Jeff [...]

But I had to do a double take Tuesday night when I saw the Wall Street Journal headline on the decision: “Microsoft plans new spyware.”

The article itself makes no reference to Microsoft creating spyware, and once one clicks on the story, bears the headline “Microsoft Plans to Introduce Free PC Security Software.”

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I [...]

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Microsoft Vice President Bill Laing talks about the server version of Windows 7, dwarfed by servers from Hewlett-Packard and IBM.

Other features include support for more processors–256 compared to 64 in Windows Server 2008–as well as live migration and the next version of its PowerShell scripting language. Live migration was a feature originally planned for the first release of Windows Server 2008, but the plan was scrapped as Micr

We haven’t heard word from Apple’s legal team yet, and we’re not sure what the legal ramifications for such a dongle might be.

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The systems will reportedly sell for $2,100, but that includes the proprietary EFi-X internal adapter that tricks OS X into thinking it’s on a Mac. That’s how this company plans to work the magic.

What’s more, according to AppleInsider, the company is planning to let consumers customize their machines, meani