Novell engineer and manager Allison Singh recently predicted in an Africa-based tectonic magazine article that Windows will become a niche operating system, replaced by Linux...

About a third of businesses plan to migrate at least some Windows machines to Linux, according to a recent survey, but adoption will continue to...

Sendmail has taken a first stab at software to authenticate the source of e-mail messages, a technology that will be key to preventing the proliferation...

AOpen, a manufacturer of optical disc drives (ODDs), motherboards and barebone PCs, has decided to overhaul its strategy and will focus on barebone systems.

Currently,...

A University of Illinois Ph.D. candidate has developed a polyester-based lubricant that could improve hard drive performance and longevity.

Otherwise know as sterically hindered polyester...

Microsoft Friday announced a significant change in plans for the next major release of Windows, code-named Longhorn.

The new Windows storage subsystem code-named WinFS will...

Fuelled by strong sales of Windows and Linux systems, the worldwide server market grew to US$11.5 billion during the second quarter of 2004.

Server shipment...

Richard Clarke--famed as the former counterterrorism czar for Bill Clinton and George W. Bush--ended his government career as the White House advisor to the President...

Several California cities and counties, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, sued Microsoft Friday.

They accused the software giant of illegally charging inflated prices for...

Microsoft will ship its next Windows client code-named Longhorn in 2006 as originally promised -- but without the next-generation file system known as WinFS... Instead,...