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Microsoft sets UK prices for Windows 7
News Microsoft has announced retail pricing for Windows 7, due to launch in October, and confirmed that European users must buy the full versions [25 Jun 2009]
US asks China to drop filtered software
News The US trade representative says China's software filtering requirement for PCs poses a serious barrier to trade [25 Jun 2009]
Microsoft releases beta of Morro antivirus
News The company has posted a beta of its free antivirus software, Microsoft Security Essentials, for testers in the US, China, Israel, and Brazil [24 Jun 2009]
Police expert calls for open-source data tools
News The emergency services should be using open-source software to ease the exchange of data, according to ACPO data expert Ian Readhead [23 Jun 2009]
Platform moves into cloud-management tools
News Veteran grid company Platform Computing has released cloud-management software to aggregate virtual and physical resources from any provider [23 Jun 2009]
Lotus Symphony gets some OOXML support
News IBM has said it believes support for importing documents in Microsoft's office format could help convince large organisations to drop Office altogether [19 Jun 2009]
Google's App Sync breaks Windows search
News Google will update it App Sync software to work with Microsoft Outlook plug-ins [18 Jun 2009]
Will new browsers really upgrade the web?
Analysis It could take a while for the reality of better browsing to catch up with the vision [18 Jun 2009]
Wind River launches embedded hypervisor
News The Wind River Hypervisor for embedded systems promises to let multiple operating systems run side by side on a single or multicore chip [18 Jun 2009]
Apple highlights Snow Leopard features 
Video Apple's senior vice president of Mac OS engineering, Craig Federighi, demos the Snow Leopard version of the operating system [18 Jun 2009]
Web standards group examining Apple patent
News The W3C is seeking prior art in an effort to get a handle on an Apple patent that could hold back the consortium's work to standardise web apps [18 Jun 2009]
Red Hat begins testing virtualisation line-up
News Beta tests begin on the new line of virtualisation products based on Qumranet's KVM, which put Red Hat into direct competition with the likes of Citrix, Microsoft and VMware [17 Jun 2009]
Citrix releases major XenServer upgrade
News People can now download version 5.5 of both XenServer and Citrix Essentials, the first significant new releases since XenServer became a free product in February [17 Jun 2009]
Centrix fine-tunes WorkSpace tracking
News An update to Centrix's browser-based application integration tool promises to help IT departments improve accuracy in charging business units for usage [16 Jun 2009]
IBM targets developers in cloud push
News The company has launched a set of cloud-computing products and services, with an initial focus on cloud development and testing [16 Jun 2009]
Microsoft promises Azure business plan in July
News The company next month will share financial details on the cloud OS and tell how partners can help sell it, according to a Microsoft exec [16 Jun 2009]
Salesforce Sites lets businesses build in the cloud
News The new Sites technology uses the Force.com cloud platform to support customer websites and online applications [16 Jun 2009]
New Linux kernel adds file-system support
News Linux 2.6.30 has been released with support for new file systems, alongside performance improvements and new hardware drivers [15 Jun 2009]
Adobe launches competitor to Google Docs
News Acrobat.com, an online collaboration tool designed to rival Google Docs, provides meetings and PDF creation at different levels of pricing [15 Jun 2009]
SAP in SaaS strategy shift
News The business software maker, which has struggled to adapt to software-as-a-service, says it will allow customers to mix traditional applications with its online services [12 Jun 2009]
Knuth: England is home of literate programming
Video On a visit to London, Professor Donald Knuth gives a rare video interview to ZDNet UK about the past, present and future of computing [12 Jun 2009]
Novell to ship Linux-monitoring tool for Microsoft
News Novell is to release a product allowing Microsoft management tools to monitor Novell's Suse Linux, as part of the companies' interoperability alliance [12 Jun 2009]
EC responds to Microsoft's browser move
News The European Commission has said that while the move to strip IE from Windows is bad for retail software buyers, it could have some positive effects in the new PC market [12 Jun 2009]
NHS tech agency touts use of open source
News NHS Connecting for Health is using open source to collaborate with other countries' health services in building specialist informatics software [12 Jun 2009]
Europe to get Windows 7 without browser
News Aiming to appease regulators, Microsoft plans to ship Windows 7 in Europe without Internet Explorer, though computer makers will have the option to add it back in [12 Jun 2009]
