The biggest mistake was in the 1995 agreement that allowed Microsoft to continue to pre-load their operating system and software. The only real way to get competition in the marketplace is to ban Microsoft from pre-loading any software whatsoever...
The news comes as Dell revealed it is pre-installing Red Hat Linux on two of its laptop PC models. The moves follow IBM's announcement last month to port all its server hardware to Linux (see 'IBM reveals large-scale Linux push' http://www.silicon...
It also will come with the first version of Sun's Configuration Manager, which lets an administrator control the privileges and settings of different groups of desktop users. Sun Microsystems will today release the second version of its Java...
Apple said in the alert describing one of the flaws: "Attackers on the wireless network may cause arbitrary code execution. Arbitrary code execution" means the intruder can commandeer the system. Today's update pre-emptively strengthens our drivers...
Microsoft said in security bulletin MS06-055: "An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted web page or HTML email that could potentially allow remote code execution if a user visited the web page or viewed the...
Given the level of media interest in the device, a delay to the launch, which was pre-announced six months previously, would have been truly dire. Not least for a company that regards product innovation as one of its greatest assets and rarely pre...