Monthly Archive:: March 2004

While the European Commission this week goes through the final steps to conclude its five-year case against Microsoft, the company's legal problems in Europe are far from over and appear to be accelerating, antitrust lawyers and officials said.

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of trailblazer Netscape Communications, can spot a long-term trend. So when Opsware Inc.--another company Andreessen co-founded and chairs--introduced its Opsware System 4 software on Linux in December, some of his faithful fans doubtless took the move as a sign of things to come.

"Mr Shrap" has written an interesting write-up on a (still) touchy topic: the button order adopted in Gnome 2 and why he doesn't like it.

The open discussion about how the future of desktop development for Linux should look like is continued between Novell's Miguel de Icaza and Red Hat's Havoc Pennington with multiple posts in their blogs.

Two new videos showing some of the new features and programs on SkyOS are now availiable on SkyOSnet. The new beta4 video shows off the crystal icons, OpenGL, SkyKruzer, the fileselector, popup dialogs, and the terminal. Keep in mind its a beta, and it was recorded in Vitual PC, so the speed does not accurately reflect the real running speed.

Programming must change -- but how? At a reunion of coding pioneers, answers abound.

Indigo is the "Longhorn" general-purpose messaging framework that you can use to build a wide variety of rich communication-based applications. You can build stateless, Web service applications and clients for such applications. You can build RemoteObject services and their clients. You can establish reliable and durable communications sessions. Indigo is a communications framework that you can use to build interesting and powerful collaboration applications. Read the article at MSDN.

As Linux made its way further into the enterprise, a key feature that it was lacking at one point in time was a journaling file system. This was true in 1999, but today there are four journaling file systems that can solve enterprise server requirements. This article focuses on one of them: JFS.

Microsoft software designed for, of all things, cash registers and slot machines played a persuasive role in the European Union's landmark antitrust case labeling it an abusive monopolist.

Research firm Gartner says only 32% of the 2.5 million Java developers in the world have genuine knowledge, which means there is a serious lack of high-level development skills.

At ITU Telecom World, WaveReport got a sample of another view by NEC. It is based on the pen and called P-ISM. This concept is so radical that WaveReport went to Tokyo to learn more.

Recently KDE 3.2 has hit the full-release stage. Previously, LinMagAU interviewed one of KDE's chief programmers, George Staikos about the upcoming version.

"Epic Programmer Ryan Gordon burst onto the Mac scene last year with the successful port of Unreal Tournament 2003 to the Mac. A man with many talents, Gordon then went on to port America's Army to the Mac and has just completed work on the Mac version of Unreal Tournament 2004. IMG recently spoke with Gordon to get his thoughts on UT 2004, the Mac, Mac OS X, and more.

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides an enhanced security infrastructure that defends against viruses, worms, and hackers, along with increased manageability and control for IT professionals and an improved experience for users. To aid IT professionals in planning and testing for the deployment of Windows XP SP2, Microsoft is making available this preview, based on RC1 of the SP2.