SoftwareWill Microsoft deliver Windows 7 next year?

Recent hints suggest Microsoft might release the next version of its operating system, Windows 7, earlier than the expected 2010 date, suggesting that the company may also want to cut its losses on Vista.

SoftwareSoftware piracy hurts the open-source community, too

That copy of Microsoft Office that "fell off the back of a truck" may hurt Microsoft's bottom line, but it's also harming the open-source community.

SoftwareMicrosoft System Center gets cross-platform support

Microsoft has released beta technologies that enable its System Center software to manage servers running operating systems other than Windows.

SoftwareMicrosoft veteran to be CEO of Juniper

After news that Kevin Johnson was out at Microsoft, purportedly over the company's failure to buy Yahoo, he was named the next CEO at networking vendor Juniper Networks.

SoftwareIs Google your next data center?

Lower costs, snap upgrades and other benefits of cloud computing are leading IT organizations to increasingly outsource traditional IT infrastructure activities like storage and server management to managed services providers. How will this alter the makeup of the IT department of the future? Computerworld looks ahead.

SoftwareUbuntu founder urges Linux desktop to rival Apple

Mark Shuttleworth urged development of a new revenue model to fund free software and set his sights on a services-based mechanism.

SoftwareApple iWork and Microsoft Office: Can they work together?

Sharing files between Microsoft Office and Apple's iWork suite can be a pain -- especially if you've got Windows users in the mix. John Rizzo explains how to make it work.

SoftwareSoftware piracy hurts the open-source community too

That copy of Microsoft Office that "fell off the back of a truck" may hurt Microsoft's bottom line, but it's also harming the open-source community.

SoftwareThe A-Z of programming languages: Modula-3

Luca Cardelli talks about the origins of Modula-3, one of the earliest attempts at a "type-safe" language.

SoftwareUsers may help to vet Android apps

Google may use a user-driven rating system to help keep bad or harmful Android applications off mobile phones.