Microsoft Corp.'s effort last week to fix a vulnerability in the Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser program and end the latest series of Internet attacks doesn't address another closely related and dangerous vulnerability, according to a security specialist.

What does Microsoft's top exec have up his sleeve? CEO Steve Ballmer gave a hint in his company-wide memo: many hosted services for SMBs are now waiting in the wings.

QEMU is now working on Mac OS X. Download ready-to-run images of QEMU virtual computers, pre-installed with a Free Operating System and a set of popular free software.

If you're part of the current blogging craze, then you've likely heard of Blog-City, a blogging site owned and operated by Blog-City Ltd. When some unexpected performance issues cropped up, Java performance experts Jack Shirazi and Kirk Pepperdine(from JavaPerformanceTuning.com) were asked to assist in a technical tuning of Blog-City. Here's what they found out and did to fix the problems.

Novell is giving away 10 GB of DVDs and CDs. Some of the included software are SuSE 9.1 Pro, SuSE Standard Server 8.0 and Novell GroupWise.

An interview with Hideya Kawahara, the lead developer of Project Looking Glass, about one of Sun's hottest projects, recently open sourced.

I have written up an article about a bunch of ideas for 3D desktop development now Project Looking Glass is Open Source. A number of the Looking Glass owners have an interest in the document and it might prove interesting to get an insight into the potential desktop of the future.

Opera Software released today the version 7.52 of Opera browser with added security (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and MS-Windows):

The KDE Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of KDE 3.3 Beta 1. As another step towards the aKademy in late August, this release is named Klassroom.

This article surveys a number of benchmarks and finds that Java performance on numerical code is comparable to that of C++, with hints that Java's relative performance is continuing to improve. Then they describe clear theoretical reasons why these benchmark results should be expected.

This is an interview with Ed Bugnion, CTO and Co-founder of VMware, conducted by IT-Director.com. It offers an insight into VMware past, present and future.

Softly spoken, shy and retiring Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent an email to staff yesterday to complain that the company is not as wealthy as everyone thinks. According to Mr Ballmer, stories have been getting out that he is sitting on a fathomless cash ocean of billions of dollars and does nothing more than swim in the mountains of loot. He wanted to tell staff that it is not true because Microsoft needed a lot of cash.

Jan Schaumann announced that the second NetBSD Quarterly Status Report for 2004 is now available online. It covers the major recent developments within the NetBSD project during April, May, June.

Customers can now purchase workstations using Intel Corp.'s Nocona Xeon processor, with 64-bit extensions to the x86 instruction set, but they can't run the beta 64-bit version of Windows designed for those extensions on the new workstations.