Industry analysts and open source advocates believe that Microsoft will have no choice but to offer support for OpenDocument when more organisations start following the state of Massachusetts' lead.

Microsoft moved a step closer to becoming a key player in the Internet security business with the announcement Thursday of a new enterprise-class anti-spyware product featuring technology to thwart viruses, worms and kernel rootkits.

Mandriva Linux 2006 has been released to members of the Mandriva Club, featuring KDE 3.4, GNOME 2.10, the new interactive firewall tool, Kat desktop search and more. Packs will go on sale through the Mandriva Store shortly, and the free public download edition will be available next month.

"With just one more week to go before the final release of Ubuntu 5.10, the Ubuntu team is proud to announce the Ubuntu 5.10 Release Candidate. This is the final milestone before the official 5.10 release, and includes installation CDs, live CDs, and combination DVDs for three architectures."

If you're doing Java Web development using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, then delivering data from the server to the client is probably your top concern. This article focuses on what matters most for many Java Web developers, producing data for the client, and walks you through five approaches to Java object serialization. It will give you all the information you need to choose the data format and technology best suited to your application.

With each successive generation of technology, we collectively make each leap faster and with slightly less pain. However, as a music fanatic, the jump from tape to CD/mp3 was a tough one for me. Enter the Plusdeck2 Tape-RW PC Cassette Deck. This fantastic device, supplied by geeks.com, has been one of the best devices I've had the pleasure of reviewing. Read on for the complete story.

The source code of one of the world's most popular free security tools will no longer be available to all, with its creator stating its open source licence was fuelling competition against his company. "Nessus 3 will be available free of charge ... But will not be released under the GPL," wrote Renaud Deraison yesterday to the software's email mailing list.

"Theo announced on -misc today that work is in progress to add G5 support to the macppc port. G5 machines will be running in 32-bit mode but there is the possibility of a macppc64 port to follow to take advantage of these 64-bit processors. All Apple models are being targetted (iMac, Power Mac, and Xserve) so if you have such a machine and wish to run OpenBSD NetBSD OpenBSD on it, your dreams are about to come true. As Theo stresses, this is very much a work in progress and not everything is supported or stable at this point in time."

Intrinsyc Software this week closed an $8.0 million (E6.8 million) financing round with Wellington Financial Fund II. The company plans to use the funds to accelerate development of a software stack for mid-range mobile phones - typically called feature-phones - based on Microsoft's Windows CE.

The new Visualizer feature in Visual Studio 2005 lets you see the data as the user sees it, or as the application uses it. And that will save you time and frustration. This article shows how it's done.

SUSE Linux 10.0 has been developed with the same goals of stability and usability, the most current and comprehensive selection of open source packages. As you would expect, when you purchase SUSE Linux 10.0, you'll receive more than 4000 software packages as well as a printed user manual, extensive online help resources and 90 days of free installation support.

The first point release of the stable 2.12.x series of Gnome has been released. This release includes the latest bugfixes and other improvements such as updated translations.

The robots are among us, but they're not exactly the stuff of science fiction. At least, not yet.

I've been wanting to try Gentoo for some time, but always had to roll my eyes at the pages and pages of installation instructions. This time, however, I rolled up my sleeves and buckled down. Minutes later, I was on my way.