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Google simplifies leaving Exchange

Google's assault on Microsoft's enterprise software business has continued to advance as the search giant released a new tool that helps companies move away from Exchange. Read more »

Windows Phone forgets how to copy and paste

Although previous versions of Windows Mobile have long supported a clipboard to move content around, the Windows Phone 7 Series devices due out this year won't have that ability. Read more »

Microsoft IE9 preview released

Microsoft released what it's calling the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview at its Mix conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, a prototype that's designed to show off the company's effort to improve how the browser deals with the web as it exists today and support for new web technologies that are coming right now. Read more »

Microsoft Outlook makes friends with MySpace

If you use both Outlook and MySpace, you are part of an interesting demographic. But you are also in luck. Read more »

Sun threatened by Microsoft, Apple over patents

Revealing a bit of previously hush-hush history that's relevant today, Sun Microsystems' former chief executive said that both Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft founder Bill Gates had threatened Sun for infringing their patents. Read more »

Google announces business app store for Google Apps

Google is bringing the app store concept to business cloud computing, giving software developers a store front for Google Apps customers. Read more »

Ex-Novell CTO takes web leadership post

The World Wide Web Consortium has a new leader who wants to streamline some of the group's standardisation efforts and beef up its ties with outside programmers. Read more »

Microsoft IE7's zero-day hole

Microsoft warned of a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 that has been targeted in attacks, and released fixes for eight holes in Windows and Office as part of Patch Tuesday. Read more »

Office 2010 business launch in May

Microsoft has said that it plans to finalise the code for Office 2010 next month and, as expected, it kicked off a program enabling those who buy Office 2007 in the coming months to get a free upgrade to the new version. Read more »

Microsoft uses TechFest to tout new user interfaces

Although it is not open to the press this year, Microsoft is using this week's TechFest internal science fair as an occasion to talk about some of the work it is doing to find new ways of connecting with computers. Read more »

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Use QuickProxy for a simple proxy switch in Firefox

Switching proxy functionality on and off in Firefox can be something of a chore using the default menu interface. The QuickProxy extension eliminates the need to jump through several hoops to get to the goal. Read more »

A look at ColdFusion 9's new features

This article looks at some of the best features in ColdFusion 9 and discusses why the application server is still compelling. Read more »

10 open source Windows apps worth checking out

The open source community has a lot to offer, and not just to Linux users. These 10 outstanding Windows tools can make your life easier (for free). Read more »

Don't make assumptions about co-workers based on their behaviour

There are a lot of things you can control at your workplace, but a fellow employee is not one of them. Read more »

10 open source headlines we'd like to see in 2010

At the beginning of a bright, shiny new year, a lot of things seem possible -- or at least worth imagining. Here are a few fantasy headlines. Read more »

Development trends to watch in 2010

What will be important development trends in 2010? This article covers .NET 4, Visual Studio 2010, cloud computing and more. Read more »

10 questions to ask when selecting open source products for your enterprise

To make sure you realise all the benefits of open source, run these simple background checks on an open source project. Read more »

The big Linux Achilles: Documentation

Linux does have one glaring Achilles heel -- documentation. This article has a proposed solution for this problem. Read more »

10 open source projects worth checking out

The open source field is pretty crowded, but certain projects stand above the rest. This article introduces 10 open source tools and solutions you don’t want to overlook. Read more »

10 things they didn't tell you about mobile working

The author reflects on the role of mobile networking in his work as a roving IT support pro and shares some of the mobility "rules" he's discovered over the years. Read more »

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Microsoft Office 2010 beta

The beta for Microsoft Office 2010 is here and we've had a chance to check out the latest version. Though the changes are more incremental than they are major, there are some useful new enhancements worth noting in this revision. Read more »

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Microsoft Word 2010 technical preview

Molly Wood takes you inside the new features of Word, including some cool cut-and-paste tricks. Read more »

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Future cloud apps won't need humans

Lew Tucker, vice president and chief technology officer of cloud computing at Sun Microsystems, foresees applications that are entirely self-sufficient. Read more »

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Adobe announces Flash Catalyst, Facebook connection

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch demos a beta version of Flash Catalyst, a Web development program that allows developers to import pictures and make each shape into a Web element. Flash Catalyst also creates Flex code of these elements, letting developers add to and manipulate the code directly, and giving them the ability to connect to Facebook's API. Read more »

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Adobe CIO: The future of RIAs

Gerri Martin-Flickinger, CIO of Adobe, thinks that in the future Rich Internet Applications are going to have many uses, separate from the browser. For example, users will be able to customise their application interface, and the RIAs will provide visibility into back office applications. Read more »

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Interfering with powerline networks

Connecting your office or home via the mains wiring is quick and easy, but what are the drawbacks? We use a vacuum cleaner, a desk lamp and a fluorescent tube to demonstrate some of them. Read more »

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Hyperconnectivity -- REMIX08 Keynote

Mark Pesce, Futurist and Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney, delivers the keynote for REMIX08 and says that thanks to services such as Twitter, employees can instantly relay bad experiences outside the normal confines of the office. Read more »

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Microsoft ditched as Anglicans go open source

The Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church has decided to cut the Microsoft umbilical cord by moving to open source, starting with Office which will be replaced in the next three years. Read more »

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Sun: We screwed up on open source

Many open source developers remain sceptical of Sun because their memories of the company focus on Sun's interactions with the community in 2001/2002, which Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phipps concedes was a period where Sun "screwed up". Read more »

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Adoption-led software procurement

Simon Phipps, chief open source officer at Sun Microsystems, describes an alternative regime for getting software into the business. A regime that comes from inside enterprises rather than vendors. Read more »

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Mini-Confs Day 2

Mini-conferences continued to be the order of the day at Linux Conference Australia 2007. Read more »

Sneak peek at Tech.Ed 06

In this picture gallery we take a look behind the scenes at Tech.Ed 06. Read more »

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Microsoft shows off IE9 preview

This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »

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IE9's H.264 vote killed Ogg

In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

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Google launches Apps Marketplace

Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

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