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Last week I wrote about the UK government's “new” IT strategy, which is designed in part to avoid some of the costly mistakes of the pas...

I've written quite a lot about Microsoft's ill-fated Vista in Open Enterprise, but nothing so far about another VistA: Electronic He...

...or anything : "As more customers make the move to Windows Vista, we want to make sure that they are making that transition with conf...

The is a clear pattern to open source's continuing rise. The first free software that was deployed was at the bottom of the enterprise s...

One of the things I like about Roy Schestowitz's Boycott Novell site is the way it brings back the Golden Oldies - statements from docu...

Here's a frightening thought: Bill Gates is not so much giving up on his misguided closed-source approach to software as moving on to ap...

On Open Enterprise blog .

Now, people, aren't you really glad you bought DRM'd music: Customers who have purchased music from Microsoft's now-defunct MSN ...

This is restating a point I've made elsewhere: that the graph of hardware requirements for Windows keeps on rising, while that for GNU/...

On Linux Journal blog .

In the Guardian .

In what may be an unprecedented decision, Microsoft said Thursday that it plans to lower the retail prices for several flavors of Windows Vi...

On Open Enterprise blog .

On Open Enterprise blog .

BECTA , the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, starts to get it : UK schools should not upgrade to Microsoft's Vi...

Many of the UK Government's fiascos - both old ones like the loss of 25 million bank details, or future ones like ID cards - could be av...

Of course, Microsoft's Zune is also certified for Windows Vista, just not certified for Windows Vista so it won't play back the sam...

I have commented here and elsewhere that the new category of ultra-light portables using flash memory represents a huge opportunity for GN...

One of the under-appreciated strengths of GNU/Linux is its wide platform support. So what? you might sniff: the only platform that matters ...

Like half the world and their dog, I have upgraded my Ubuntu box to Gutsy Gibbon. Many things have been written about this (the finest prob...