UK standards body taken to court over OOXML
News The UK Unix & Open Systems Users Group has launched a High Court challenge against the decision by the BSI to approve Microsoft's nascent document format [01 May 2008]
- Good Luck - Moley
- Yes - more balance - Sothis
HTC unveils the Touch Diamond 
Photos The latest product in the Touch range is notable for being the first HTC Windows Mobile phone to come with Opera as its browser, due to timing issues with Internet Explorer 6 [06 May 2008]
OOXML expert: ODF standard is broken
News The ISO standard for ODF documents is impossible to implement, says an expert who has now found both OpenOffice and Microsoft Office 2007 non-standard compliant [02 May 2008]
- OpenOffice defence: Brown is using the wrong version - PeterJudge
- It is quite simple - RCWeir
- Micrsoft committed to ISO version of OOXML - Albert
- Bottom line: no featureful implementations of ISO/IEC:26300 OpenDocument - Marbux
- My main objections to OOXML are not technical - 1000013186
- Not inconsistent at all - RCWeir
- 'Smoke test' or 'Smoke screen'? - kurizocan2
Police force's Facebook app raises privacy concerns
News Greater Manchester Police has become the first UK police force to establish a presence on Facebook, but critics have warned of the privacy implications [21 Apr 2008]
Vodafone bundles mobile data into tariffs
News The operator is the first in the UK to not require a bolt-on tariff for mobile data usage [02 May 2008]
Sun sheds light on its open-source future
Q&A Simon Phipps, Sun UK's chief open-source officer, surveys the open-source landscape and reaffirms his company's commitment to open-software development [29 Apr 2008]
SCO chief testifies: 'Linux is copy of Unix'
News Open-source fans have dismissed Darl McBride's court comments in the lawsuit brought against SCO by Novell [02 May 2008]
Java fully open-sourced 'by end of year'
News Once every component of Java is GPL-compliant, the software will be able to be fully integrated into Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and Fedora [25 Apr 2008]
Asus Eee 900 gets limited UK launch
Roundup The upgraded subnotebook hit shelves on Thursday as planned, albeit on a very limited scale, due to stock shortages [01 May 2008]
PC makers find ways to extend XP's life
News Manufacturers such as Dell and HP will continue to offer Windows XP on new machines past Microsoft's 30 June deadline, but customers will still get Vista as part of the deal [28 Apr 2008]
- Problem... - Mosh
- License is Valid for Both XP and VIsta - J.A. Watson
- Only 1 SATA ! - chrishocking
- The power of being a monopoly! - harpless
Mozilla warns of Flash and Silverlight 'agenda'
News The founder of Mozilla Europe claims Adobe and Microsoft's rich-media tech threatens the open nature of the web but concedes they are currently necessary for multimedia content [30 Apr 2008]
Mac-clone company back online
News Psystar claims to have resolved problems concerning its online store and is again ready to accept orders of its cut-price PCs running Mac OS X [22 Apr 2008]
Microsoft reveals Vista security plans
News The software giant plans to put an increased emphasis in Vista on whitelisting, DRM additions and authenticating code [11 Apr 2008]
Gartner: Windows collapsing under own weight
News The analyst group has claimed Microsoft's strategy for its operating system needs a radical overhaul [11 Apr 2008]
- Bloated Windows - 334638
Microsoft: Vista UAC designed to 'annoy users'
News By designing Vista's User Account Control security feature to annoy users, ISVs are being forced to make software more robust, claims a Microsoft product manager [11 Apr 2008]
- OK, so that makes sense... - Mosh
- Shame... - Mosh
- Yup - Mosh
Ofcom seeks to speed up UK fibre rollout
News The telecoms regulator has launched a review into ways of replacing existing copper networks, possibly by laying fibre through existing sewer ducts [17 Apr 2008]
Mac OS X gets first open-source virtualisation tool
News Sun has released a major update to its open-source desktop virtualisation tool xVM VirtualBox, adding support for Mac OS X and Solaris host operating systems [08 May 2008]
Ballmer: Out of the frying pan and closer to fired
Leader Ballmer walks, Yahoo sulks. There's a lesson to be learned — and not that long to learn it [06 May 2008]
- I wonder... - ego.sum.stig
Microsoft resumes XP SP3, Vista SP1 updates
News The company is releasing XP SP3 for web downloads and resuming automatic updates to Vista SP1, following an earlier conflict with another Microsoft product [07 May 2008]
Microsoft delays XP SP3 over 'compatibility issue'
News The release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been delayed due to a compatibility glitch, also affecting Vista SP1, with Dynamic Retail Management System [30 Apr 2008]
Estonia's cyberattacks: Lessons learned, a year on
Analysis The concerted denial-of-service attempts against Estonia's critical national infrastructure have been a wake-up call for governments around the world [01 May 2008]
Debian suffers from community growing pains
News Developers attempting to join the Debian community have criticised the management of the Linux operating system [22 Apr 2008]
Analysts claim improved reliability for Linux servers
News Yankee Group research suggests Linux distributions for servers now see less downtime than Windows Server 2003 [16 Apr 2008]
Windows XP SP3 out by end of April
News The long-awaited final service pack for the XP operating system could be made available within weeks, according to reports [16 Apr 2008]
Dell, HP, Lenovo back Linux with driver promise
News The companies have made a commitment to 'strongly encourage' chipset vendors to make open-source drivers for integration into the Linux kernel [02 May 2008]
- Nothing but common sense for the likes of them - Andrew Meredith
