Microsoft's efforts to bolster security in Windows XP will likely delay the release of a widespread test version of its forthcoming OS, Longhorn, until next year, Microsoft's executives told CNET News.com.

Today I stumbled upon a little live distro called PCLinuxOS . I've seen it before mentioned online, but I never really looked at it in depth. When I found it under "alternatives" for Mandrake, I decided to take a look. I was surprized to what I found.

The EU antitrust case against Microsoft is a battle over the future technical standards for Hollywood films, online music and other forms of digital entertainment, analysts say.

The SphereXP is a 3D desktop replacement for Microsoft Windows XP (still beta). It offers a new way to organize objects on the desktop. Check the videos and screenshots to get the idea.

Flexbeta.net claims that it has learned the release dates for Windows XP 64 Bit, Tablet PC 2004 and Windows XP SP2.

JSR 133, which has been active for nearly three years, has recently issued its public recommendation on what to do about the Java Memory Model (JMM).

In this article, Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to build an infrared chat application using the IrDAClient class supported in the .NET Compact Framework class libraries. Elsewhere, by way of a blog entry, David Hill explains how you can implement an asynchronous call pattern that allows you to consume Web services from a Windows Forms application without having to worry about threads.

This document contains summaries all of the services available for the Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems. The services are listed in alphabetical order by display name. Following a description of each service, a table lists key information about the service.

The aim of the Kimono project on KDE is to write a complete wrapper for KDE/Qt using the Mono framework and is based on early work by KDE bindings hacker Richard Dale. Kimono uses KaXul, a fully XML-based representation of the UI, the Dot reports. However, the changes made to KDE in preparation for Kimono has left the other binding effort, Qt#, orphaned with a dead dependancy: QtC.

After Microsoft released their .Net framework everyone started realizing that J2EE is complex, says Debu Panda in his editorial. Elsewhere, while acknowledging obstacles remain, a Sun official left open the possibility that Sun might offer its Java programming language under an open source format.

In an effort to make its version of Unix compare more favorably to Red Hat's Linux, Sun Microsystems plans in coming weeks to begin selling its Solaris operating system through a subscription model.

"Resistance is nearly futile. Three years after Apple introduced OS X, smaller newspapers have hard decisions to make: upgrade to Apple’s OS X, stick with software that is becoming more outdated by the day or move over to a Windows environment." Read the article at NewsAndTech.

On Wednesday, Microsoft announced new VoIP features in its forthcoming Windows CE version 5.0, touting the embedded computing platform for use in VoIP-enabled devices.

In a release that marks the fruit of six months of hard work from hackers, maintainers, translators, testers, usability team and the accessibility team, GNOME 2.6.0 continues the high standards in the areas of usability, accessibility and internationalisation with this release.