Microsoft has warned that a "critical" flaw in the latest versions of its Windows operating system could allow hackers to access a person's computer. "This is one of the most serious Microsoft vulnerabilities ever released" said Mr Maiffret.

Ignore the comments about the value of Psion shares: concentrate on what Psion is going to do with all the money it got from selling its interest in Symbian. The answer is probably: "Linux portables" but we'll find out later this year for sure.

The legal battle with Microsoft that has seen Linux reseller Lindows running a gantlet of courts over trademark infringement seems, for the moment, to be going in the open-source company's favor.

Resilient is a secure, object-oriented, serviceable, real-time software platform for embedded devices. The platform enables developers to debug, profile, and update code running on embedded devices in the field, vastly improving reliability and development productivity. The compactness makes it possible to fit the virtual machine, core libraries, device drivers, TCP/IP networking stack, and user applications in less than 128KB of memory. The Resilient Technology Preview was released last week. It can be downloaded for free for non-commercial use.

This is a Q&A conducted over e-mail with DesktopOS & the CTO/founder of Lycoris, Joseph Cheek.

Macintosh market share continues to decline, but the iPod and iTunes are hit products. Where does Apple Computer’s future lie? An interview with HBS professor David Yoffie.

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that The NetBSD Foundation Inc. now is classified as an Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3) publicly-funded non-profit organization. Donations to the Foundation by US taxable entities are now fully tax-deductible. For more information about donations to The NetBSD Foundation, please see: http://www.NetBSD.org/donations/, Other contributions are, of course, also always welcome.

Exclusive Sebastian Gunningham, the high-profile executive wooed to lead Apple's enterprise sales division, has left the company, Think Secret has learned. Gunningham's hiring was considered a sign that Apple was serious about taking on corporate markets, and his departure raises questions about Apple's success in future enterprise sales.

After reading a discussion on DistroWatch asking if users were happy with their current distribution, I noticed a common thread of those who have had similar experiences as myself with juggling various Linux distributions. Like myself, they feel many Linux distributions are great, but no one quite feels like home. None of them quite fit the bill and they may even begin to think that every OS sucks.

Hans Reiser of the ReiserFS project created benchmarking tests designed to be fairly representative of the file-size distribution of most users. "Reiser4 does quite well on all benchmarks," he said. "With , we took five different technical gambles, and all of them worked. The result is very high.

PalmSource on Tuesday officially announced it will divide its operating system efforts, working on both entry-level and high-end versions of the operating system.

Scitech officially announced today a port of their SNAP graphic interface to the Unununium Operating System, read the white paper written by Richard Fillion, part of the Unununium main developers.

HP has given its hardware line a good scrubbing on Monday, refreshing a broad list of server and storage systems. HP has now included SuSE Enterprise Server 8 on its corporate price list for one- to four-processor Integrity servers. In addition, HP has sent out a beta of Version 8.1 of the OpenVMS operating system for Itanium boxes. In the meantime, Sun Microsystems plans to unveil a major overhaul to its server line on Tuesday, when it will introduce systems that use its own new UltraSparc IV chip and Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor.

Object Caml is an ML type of language. For the non-gurus: it's a functional language that can also be programmed in a non-functional and object-oriented way. Read about it at the latest issue of the LinuxGazette online magazine.