The "Osborne Effect" refers to the unintended consequences of announcing a future product ahead of its availability -- and its impact upon the sales of the current product. Here are the eight worst Osbornes we've ever seen.
These are the leading electronic payment systems you can use to avoid paying by cash or credit card.
Whether you call it Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 7, there's no doubt that this is a major Server product release for Microsoft.While the Windows 7 Release Candidate is getting all the attention this week, I thought I might bring some focus on the Client OS's bigger brother -- Windows Server 2008 R2 , which also reached its Release Candidate milestone today.
There are those who would call our social media streams a new form of consciousness and the future of computing. I would suggest they spend more time interacting with actual human beings.
What would Ubuntu be like if it were an OS for grown-ups?This week at its CommunityOne event in San Francisco, Sun will release its May 2008 build of OpenSolaris (2008.
You'll need to install WINE and ies4linux if you expect to be able to download files from MSDN. Okay, I confess, I use Microsoft products.
Photo: Jeff Bonwick and Linus TorvaldsI was resolved not to write another Unixfication story until I had more concrete news of Sun and Linus actually working together, and filed it away under "Maybe". Like many of the speculative peices I write, it was a thought exercise with the objective of "shaking the tree" so to speak.
Does this scenario sound familiar? You just went to your first big IT infrastructure planning meeting of the year, and after many months of debating the pros and cons with you and your fellow cynical IT support workers, your all-powerful, all-knowing CIO told you to migrate your workstation and server infrastructure to Windows 2000.
Valentine's Day is here again, and love is in the air. Couples flirting, courting, forming relationships. Sometimes those relationships result in marriage. Marriages occur in the tech world, too. Corporate mergers can result in the two parts being stronger than the whole, or they can end in utter disaster.
Initial Alpha Release of Boxee for Windows.