The Windows-versus-Linux server face-off (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Linux certainly has established itself as a prominent server OS these days, pushing Unix into the background. But the open source OS shares the stage with commercial software giant Microsoft, which remains a dominant player with Windows Server.
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Ballmer Says Microsoft Will Focus on R&D Amid Gloom (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - The news last month that Microsoft was issuing its first large-scale layoffs was a clear sign that the economic downturn is being felt even in Redmond, Wash. In a conference call with financial analysts Tuesday, CEO Steve Ballmer made it clear that the software giant doesn't expect things to improve anytime soon.
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Google backs EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft (AFP)
AFP - Google threw its backing on Tuesday behind the European Commission's antitrust complaint against Microsoft, in the latest salvo in the rivalry between the Internet search king and the software giant.
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Microsoft Office 14 Wonأ¢آ€آ™t Ship This Year -- Does Anyone Care? (PC World)
PC World - It appears that the next version of Microsoft Office wonأ¢آ€آ™t ship until next year. Thatأ¢آ€آ™s the word from Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet, whoأ¢آ€آ™s reporting that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Wall Street analysts Tuesday that the upcoming Office 14 is slated for a 2010 release. The announcement likely rules out a dual launch of Office 14 and Windows 7, the latter of which is slated to ship later this year, possibly as early as this summer.
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NYC career expo highlights faces of joblessness (AP)
AP - Small business owner. Receptionist. Software developer. Executive assistant.
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Microsoft expects difficult conditions to continue (AFP)
AFP - US software giant Microsoft said Tuesday that it expects economic conditions to remain difficult through at least the second half of the year.
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Google joins EU antitrust case against Microsoft (Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc has added its voice to the case against Microsoft Corp as the European Commission probes antitrust charges related to the software giant's Internet Explorer browser.
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Google backs Europe case against Microsoft browser (AP)
AP - Google Inc. is joining forces with European regulators in an attack on Microsoft Corp.'s dominance of the Web browser market, injecting more bad blood between two of computing's richest and most powerful companies.
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Microsoft says no new cost cuts, shares hit 11-year low (Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp outlined plans to offset revenue declines as the PC market shifts to low-cost netbooks, but it failed to announce more cost cuts, sending its shares to an 11-year low.
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Update: Microsoft shows off new Visual Studio UI (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft showed on Tuesday morning the "modernized" look and feel for the planned Visual Studio 2010 software development environment.
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Ingres, Alfresco Debut Open-source SharePoint Rival (PC World)
PC World - Open-source vendors Ingres and Alfresco are teaming up on a software appliance that bundles the Ingres database with Alfresco's content management platform, hoping the combination will prove to be an enticing alternative to Microsoft SharePoint.
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Adobe Flaw Has Been Used in Attacks Since Early January (PC World)
PC World - A dangerous and unpatched vulnerability in Adobe's PDF-reading software has been around a lot longer than previously realized.
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Microsoft Demands Money Back From Laid-Off Workers (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - There's bad corporate PR, and there's REALLY bad corporate PR. The accounting department of software giant Microsoft offered a textbook example of the latter.
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Red Hat Targets VMware, Microsoft With Virtualization Line (PC World)
PC World - Red Hat Monday introduced an entire line of virtualization software aimed at disrupting the current market and leader VMware's position by giving customers an open-source option for virtualizing their data centers.
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Rogue Software Targets PCMag.com Security Analyst (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - What do you do when a window pops up out of the blue warning that your system is infested with malware, and requires immediate cleaning? If you're a smart user, you observe that the warning didn't actually come from Windows nor from any program you installed or launched.
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Sony counting on software; Nintendo's new portable (AP)
AP - Real news from the virtual world:
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Vertica tailors its analytic database for VMware (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Vertica packaged its Vertica Virtualized Analytic Database as a software appliance and unwrapped the bundle on Monday.
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Borland offers release readiness for software (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Borland Software is unveiling on Monday TeamInspector, a "release readiness" system that reveals metrics to give development managers evidence that software is ready for customer use.
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Test your Web IQ (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The World Wide Web has had the greatest impact on our lives of any technology since the personal computer itself. But Web 2.0 didn't happen overnight -- the history of this radical medium spans 17 years of servers, sites, and software. Think you know all there is to know? Test your Web literacy with this pop quiz packed with tech tips and trivia. But watch out! Some of the answers may not be what you expect.
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Adobe CEO'S 2008 compensation valued at $16.4M (AP)
AP - Shantanu Narayen, the chief executive of Acrobat software maker Adobe Systems Inc., was awarded compensation valued at $16.4 million in fiscal 2008, although the vast majority of that was in stock options that currently have little value.
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