Gates holds his last annual meeting as full-timer

Bill Gates and other Microsoft executives addressed questions during the company's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday.

Oracle races onto server virtualization highway; are speed traps ahead?

Server virtualization technology enters the Oracle world with the announcement Monday of Oracle VM. But has the company already walled itself off?

OpenWorld: Siebel On Demand to become 'social CRM'

We've all heard about social networking; how about social software-as-a-service? Oracle's upcoming changes to its Siebel CRM On Demand service will provide salespeople with work tools reminiscent of features found on the likes of Facebook or MySpace.

IT Forum: Microsoft beefing up app virtualization program

The product now sports more native-language support, better scalability and improved security, Microsoft says.

IBM hopes its second Symphony beta hits an even higher note

IBM today unveiled the second beta of its Lotus Symphony desktop office suite with a raft of improvements and bug fixes.

Microsoft fixes WSUS malfunction in time for Patch Tuesday

Microsoft Corp., for the second time in two weeks, apologizes for blunders made by the application that enterprises rely on to deploy the company's security patches and other updates.

Leopard knocks out some MacBook Pro keyboards

Some MacBook Pro users who upgraded to Leopard are reporting that their notebook's keyboard and trackpad have gone on the fritz. The only apparent solution: Reboot the machine.

Frankly Speaking: Game changer

Will the GooglePhone matter? Last week, Google officially unveiled its long-rumored mobile phone software. Dubbed "Android," the Linux-based software stack is being backed by more than 30 partners, including handset makers Motorola, Samsung, LG and HTC, and service providers Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile and NTT DoCoMo. But no Nokia. No AT&T or Verizon. No Apple or Palm. No Symbian, Microsoft or RIM. Without them, will Android matter at all?

Feds Prescribe More Money for E-health Push

Some doctors and health care IT executives are applauding the government's plan to use financial incentives to encourage doctors to adopt e-health records. But not everyone is convinced it will be enough.

Game-Changer

Frank Hayes speculates that Google's mobile phone software is a winner, even if it loses in the marketplace.

Microsoft Fires CIO for Policy Violation

Microsoft disclosed in an internal memo that it had fired CIO Stuart Scott after determining that he had violated unspecified corporate policies.

OpenWorld kicks off with SNL alumni skits, mellow Ellison

A jovial, self-deprecating Larry Ellison? Believe it -- Sunday night's opening remarks at OpenWorld conference included an affectionate look back at 30 years of Oracle history from officials of a company more usually known for its sharp elbows.

Extreme Programming inventor talks about agile development

Kent Beck touts about shorter development cycles and says agile methods can detect unworkable software projects more quickly.

Vista speed, stability fixes to hit Windows Update on Tuesday

Microsoft Corp. will push a trio of performance and reliability updates to Windows Vista users tomorrow using its Windows Update automated service.

Google, mobile alliance partners provide 'early look' at Android SDK

A week after announcing a new mobile software stack called Android, the Google-led Open Handset Alliance released an early version of a software development kit for the technology.

WSUS sync snafu cripples enterprise update ability on eve of Patch Tuesday

A glitch in the software that most companies use to update their Microsoft Corp. applications and operating systems has some administrators scrambling a day before Patch Tuesday.

Oracle's Phillips: Our software is integrated but open

During the opening keynote at Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle President Charles Phillips said the software vendor is looking to be a lot of different things to corporate users.

Chizen out at month's end as Adobe CEO

Adobe Systems said that Bruce Chizen, who has been its CEO for the past seven years, will step down at the end of November and leave its board of directors next spring.

Who is ready to make the switch this holiday season?

The Mac vs. PC debate has raged on for years with both sides passionate about their preferred platform. As we’re all aware, an operating system can make or break the whole computing experience. And, with Vista now out for quite some time and Leopard out for only a relatively short period of time, it would be hard and perhaps even unfair for me to compare the two as far as problems encountered with them over time. That said, this article by Scot Finnie, "The verdict: Leopard spanks Vista, continues OS X's reign of excellence" shows that Apple does have the edge.

Sun builds Constellation of petascale supercomputing

It's so big and diffuse that it's called a Constellation -- Sun has announced a new high-performance computing system that can scale up to 2 petaflops -- 2,000 trillion calculations per second. One installation is already in the works in Texas.