'Black screen of death' sparks Microsoft investigation
News The software maker is looking into reports that some users' systems are not working properly after installing the latest Windows security updates [01 Dec 2009]
Microsoft confirms Windows 7 tool used GPL code
News The software maker has said that a tool intended to allow netbooks to more easily move to the operating system was based in part, and unintentionally, on open-source code [16 Nov 2009]
Warning over cloud computing's environmental costs
News A report by university IT organisation Jisc says technologies used to connect to the cloud are highly energy inefficient [26 Nov 2009]
- You must be joking... - 1000270662
Apple changes its UK terms of sale
News The manufacturer is now explicitly liable for faulty or misdescribed goods, after concerns raised by the Office of Fair Trading prompted a revision of Apple's terms and conditions [27 Nov 2009]
IE9, Silverlight 4, Office 2010 in the PDC spotlight
News Day two of Microsoft's PDC saw clients take centre stage, with browsers, rich internet applications and productivity tools in the spotlight [19 Nov 2009]
Google shows Chrome OS, promises 2010 launch
News Google's long-awaited Chrome OS aims at security, speed and simplicity in netbook cloud computing [19 Nov 2009]
- Client sorted, what about the network? - manek
- You can't blame Google for the network - 88072
- indeed - Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe
Microsoft halts Windows 7 tool after GPL code claims
News A tool aimed at making it easier to put Windows 7 on netbooks has been pulled after questions were raised about whether the software improperly uses open-source code [11 Nov 2009]
Office 2010 beta released to the public
News Public availability of the test version was announced at PDC in Los Angeles. New features include a mechanism for connecting Outlook to social networks [19 Nov 2009]
Microsoft to let multiple pupils work from single PC
News The software maker is working on new option that will let will let several students work independently off a single PC, each with their own screen, mouse and keyboard [13 Nov 2009]
- Re Here we Go Again - Moley
- 20 years behind the times? - Yellowcave
Near-final Thunderbird 3 is released
News The first release candidate of Mozilla Messaging's email software arrives several days later than expected [26 Nov 2009]
RIM pushes boat out for BlackBerry developers
News Saying BlackBerry software is 'no longer an island', the handset company at its developer conference unveiled new tools and APIs for building mobile apps [10 Nov 2009]
Microsoft launches Exchange Server 2010
News The latest version of Microsoft's email server product, Exchange Server 2010, arrives alongside Forefront Protection 2010 [09 Nov 2009]
UK companies put ERP on hold
News ERP systems are difficult and time-consuming to implement, and more than 60 percent of UK companies are postponing them temporarily or indefinitely, according to a new study [09 Nov 2009]
Microsoft introduces Excel for supercomputers
News At the SC09 supercomputing conference, Microsoft released a test version of its Excel spreadsheet redesigned to run on powerful clusters of servers [17 Nov 2009]
Microsoft may help News Corp vanish from Google
News Rupert Murdoch's media empire is talking with the tech giant about having its websites removed from Google search results, according to a Financial Times report [23 Nov 2009]
Bing could map path to iPhones
News Microsoft is working on a Bing application for mobile phones, and the iPhone is a possible target for the search and mapping tool, a program manager has said [04 Dec 2009]
Bing Maps beta taps into Silverlight
News Microsoft is releasing a test version of its online map tool that uses Silverlight to deliver 3D pictures and street-level images [03 Dec 2009]
SAP price hikes delayed
News The UK SAP users group predicts rises will not arrive until Q2 next year, after SAP announced its value benchmarking timescale had slipped [02 Dec 2009]
IBM's Tivoli heads to Amazon Web Services
News The Tivoli move highlights another addition to Amazon's stable of enterprise-class applications available on its platform [02 Dec 2009]
Qt gets support for Symbian, multitouch
News Version 4.6 of the Nokia-owned graphical toolkit lets developers write apps within a single framework for a variety of desktop and smartphone platforms [01 Dec 2009]
Chrome OS adapted for Dell netbook
News With an experimental project, Dell has brought Google's browser-based operating system to its Mini 10v Netbook [01 Dec 2009]
Salesforce.com demos Service Cloud 2 
Video Chief executive Marc Benioff and Kraig Swensrud, senior vice president of product marketing, show the company's new customer service software, Service Cloud 2 [27 Nov 2009]
Rickroll virus author hired by iPhone app company
News The creator of the 'ikee' worm, which replaced the wallpaper of jailbroken iPhones with a picture of Rick Astley, has been hired by Australian app developers Mogeneration [27 Nov 2009]
Developers invited into LinkedIn
News The networking site for professionals has opened its platform to developers so they can integrate it into business applications and web sites [24 Nov 2009]
Chrome, Android likely to merge
News Google co-founder Sergey Brin says that the company's two operating-system projects, which could compete with each other in netbooks, may become one OS over time [23 Nov 2009]
