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News for Friday, June 16 2006

More Vista delays.

Parallels, a Virginia-based startup, has released the final version of its Mac virtualization software, two months after it began testing.

Notepad weirdness...

Microsoft’s co-founder, chairman, and chief software architect, Bill Gates, is to gradually step down from day to day duties. He will focus instead on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which works on health and education in developing countries.

Is this a search engine I see before me?

New tools to help manage and track unstructured data, such as Office documents.

"Atlas" has some reliability problems, but is "incredible piece of code".

Golf made the list, and Football is only #3.

News for Thursday, June 15 2006

Hewlett-Packard Co. has come up with business computing technology that it says could help corporate customers reduce data center costs by 46 percent.

Following a security investigation made by the world's largest anti-virus company Symantec, it appears that the most popular email service on the Web, Yahoo Mail, has been affected by a silent and devious attacker, an Internet worm named Yamanner.

AOL is relaunching Netscape.com, transforming it from a portal into a Dig/Slashdot competitor.

One bad driver can spoil the OS, so Microsoft will provide a Driver Quality Rating (DQR) system to help people identify better drivers.

Now with photo sharing, will it lure people from Flickr?

What's a good distro to develop on?

News for Wednesday, June 14 2006

Several security sources are reporting that "exploit code" -- instructions showing bad guys how to attack vulnerabilities -- has been posted online for several more security flaws for which Microsoft just issued patches.

On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next generation of Internet computing. Today Oregon, tomorrow Washington, what will be next...

Dot passes to plus sign, exclamation mark!

The monthly visit from Windows Update includes 21 vulnerabilities on 12 updates.

Microsoft has unveiled a pair of Web cameras to its hardware line that includes keyboards and mice.

Soon you'll be able to send or request PayPal payments from directly within Skype. Sounds convenient -- but will it open a gaping hole through which hackers can gain access to your PayPal money?

The number one question at the Windows Live booth at TechEd? "What's Windows Live?"