Microsoft to let consumers test Windows 7 on Friday (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp plans to let consumers test the next generation of its computer operating system, Windows 7, starting on Friday and said the new software is "absolutely on track."
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Microsoft's Ballmer: Windows 7 is nearly final (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp.'s next version of the Windows operating system is almost ready for prime time. That's one message Chief Executive Steve Ballmer delivered on the eve of the official opening of the International Consumer Electronics Show.
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Vietnam Pushes Open-source Software for Government Use (PC World)
PC World - The Vietnamese government will move to several open-source applications by the end of next year as the country also tries to reduce the use of pirated software.
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Two class action suits filed against Satyam in U.S. (Reuters)
Reuters - Investors in Satyam Computer Services Ltd's American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) have filed two class action suits against the Indian software services firm, the law firms representing the investors said on Thursday.
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Windows 7 beta available worldwide on Friday (AFP)
AFP - Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has announced that a test version of the US software titan's Windows 7 operating system will be available worldwide on Friday.
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Steve Ballmer's State of Microsoft Keynote at CES 2009 (PC World)
PC World - Microsoft will release a public beta this week of its next desktop operating system, Windows 7, hoping it will address the problems that have made Windows Vista perhaps the least popular OS in its history.
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Apple to sell copy protection-free songs (Reuters)
Reuters - Apple Inc has reached a deal with major record labels to sell digital songs without the copy protection software that had prevented fans from sharing music bought from its iTunes store, the maker of the iPod and iPhone said on Tuesday.
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Intel's miss weighs on Microsoft shares (AP)
AP - Shares of Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, sank Wednesday after chip maker Intel Corp. said fourth-quarter sales missed already lowered expectations.
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SAP Wants Oracle to Reveal Software, Support Profit Margins (PC World)
PC World - SAP wants Oracle to reveal profit-margin information for JD Edwards and PeopleSoft software and support, according to a joint discovery statement filed this week in connection with Oracle's lawsuit against SAP.
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Borland CEO leaves, joins VMware (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Borland Software's CEO has resigned, taking a position at EMC's VMware subsidiary. Tod Nielsen, who had served as Borland CEO since November 2005, has become the chief operating officer of VMware, a newly created position, VMware said Tuesday.
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Sun Acquires Belgian Cloud-Management Firm (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Sun Microsystems announced Wednesday it has acquired Q-layer, a cloud-computing company that automates the deployment and management of both public and private clouds. Cloud computing brings computer and data resources onto the Web for higher efficiency, massive scalability, and faster and easier software development.
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Satyam Computer head quits, admits doctoring books (AP)
AP - The chairman of India's Satyam Computer Services Ltd. quit Wednesday after admitting the company's profits had been doctored for several years, shaking faith in the country's corporate giants as shares of the software services provider plunged nearly 80 percent.
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Sun Buys Cloud-computing Vendor Q-layer (PC World)
PC World - Sun Microsystems has bought Q-layer, a Belgian vendor of software for automating the management of computing clouds, it said Wednesday. The acquisition provides a clue as to how Sun plans to go about delivering on the cloud computing strategy it outlined last month.
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First Parental Content Monitoring App Hits iPhone (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - InternetSafety.com has announced Safe Eyes Mobile, what it claims as the first Internet filtering software that lets parents protect children from viewing objectionable content on a mobile device.
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Avoiding the high cost of bad code (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - While software development technologies continue to advance on multiple fronts, the complexity of software and its management remains a complicated, expensive problem. For instance, too many developers can become involved in a project, and those developers may not be around later to maintain the code they wrote. Plus, software requirements can change, and it can be difficult to track what, exactly, the software was supposed to do.
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Phoenix Offers Faster Boot Times for Laptops (PC World)
PC World - BIOS vendor Phoenix Technologies has launched its HyperSpace "instant on" software, which allows a laptop to boot up in less than 30 seconds for basic tasks like surfing the Web.
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VMware Taps Borland CEO for Chief Operating Officer (PC World)
PC World - Virtualization giant VMware has named Borland Software CEO Tod Nielsen to the newly created position of chief operating officer, in the latest chapter of a VMware management shakeup that began with the ouster in July 2008 of co-founder and CEO Diane Greene.
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Apple to sell all iTunes music without anti-piracy software (AFP)
AFP - Apple on Tuesday said every song in its iTunes library will be available without anti-piracy software by April.
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Apple Releases New '09 Version of iLife at Macworld (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Apple showed a new version of its iLife package Tuesday at the Macworld Conference & Expo, now taking place in San Francisco. iLife is a suite of software programs included with a new Mac, and provides tools such as iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb and iDVD. The newest iLife requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
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Apple disappoints--no Jobs or big news at Macworld (Reuters)
Reuters - Apple Inc said on Tuesday said it was dropping copy protection from songs sold on the Internet and debuted its slimmest 17-inch laptop yet, but with no dramatic products or master pitchman Steve Jobs, the company's final Macworld performance disappointed Wall Street.
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