"Keeping Windows up-to-date can be a pain for an enterprise IT department, but Microsoft's new Windows Server Update Services can help tremendously. Ars shows you how to use WSUS to move beyond Automatic Update and take charge of your entire network."

AppJet Inc. is the company behind EtherPad, a real-time collaboration tool somewhat similar to Google's own Wave. More about the acquisition here. Naturally, EtherPad team will be working on improving Wave in the future. The original plan was to discontinue the EtherPad, but because of user demand, Google decided to keep EtherPad online at least until its code is published as open-source. It was not originally planed to release the code either, but it was decided that it would be a fair compensation to EtherPad users. More about this here.

In what is certainly entirely expected, I was wrong about the whole CrunchPad drama. I suspected it was nothing more than a publicity stunt, but as it turns out, Fusion Garage's side of the story confirmed that the break between them and Arrington is real. During a press conference today, Fusion Garage told their side of the story, while also officially introducing the CrunchPad Joo Joo.

A few days ago we saw the release of version 0.8.1 of virt-manager, the Linux desktop client for managing virtual machines. Changes include a VM Migration wizard, exposing various migration options; enumeration of CDROM and bridge devices on remote connections, multiple graphs in the manager window, support storage pool source enumeration for LVM, NFS, and SCSI, and allow changing VM ACPI, APIC, clock offset, individual vcpu pinning, and video model (vga, cirrus, etc.).

"Intel's legal dispute with graphics-chip maker Nvidia is being reviewed as part of an antitrust probe of Intel by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, according to people familiar with the matter. Regulators are looking at lawsuits between Intel and Nvidia, said the people, who declined to be identified because the federal investigation is continuing. The FTC is trying to determine whether a lawsuit filed by Intel earlier this year is an effort to disrupt Nvidia’s business, one person said."

Websense has made ten predictions about security/vulnerability trends for 2010. There's no crystal ball, so we're not talking about malicious innovation, but mostly a recognition that certain nefarious activities are gaining traction and will expand in the near future. Of particular interest to OSNews readers: exploitations of Windows 7 and IE 8 vulnerabilities, the beginning of the end of the Mac's reprieve on security issues, and increasing targeting of mobile devices (beyond Rickrolling your iPhone, presumably). Read on to learn OSNews 2010 security predictions.