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The FBI has confirmed reports that it was forced to shut down it's external unclassified email network "as a precautionary measure" following the discovery of a virus infection. Wonder if it was a Windows system, bet it was!

The US Army has opted to form a strategic alliance with Vista by migrating all of its Windows-based computers.. The systems change, which will include upgrading from MS Office 2003 to MS Office 2007, has been ordered so as to “bolster Internet security” and standardise information systems.

It looks like Microsoft just does not learn from previous mistakes: a leading security outfit reckons that a well known security flaw from current and past versions of the Microsoft OS has been ported straight into Windows 7.

Looks like Microsoft has adopted the underpants on head and pencils up nose 'Blackadder Marketing Strategy' for Windows 7. Only a true loon could think up giving the RC away free and then making it shut the PC down every two hours for three months...

Steve Ballmer not only chose the day that Windows 7 RC hit the public download stream to announce swathing jobs cuts at Microsoft, but also admitted that more may be to come.

There has been something of a storm in a teacup brewing over news that Microsoft will be pushing out automatic upgrades of IE8 to IE6 and IE7 users, but just how hard will it be pushing?

The Windows share of the US netbook market is a staggering 96 percent. That's up from less than 10 percent of US unit sales during the first half of 2008 when the words netbook and Linux pretty much ran together. Now it seems that the netbook revolution is leaving Linux behind.

EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow once said that "relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds." Guess who has just put the new blinds up in Britain?

With the publication of drive by download attack code this week which impacts Firefox security on all platforms by exploiting an unpatched and critical flaw in the browser, and the successful hacking of the Firefox client (as well as IE8 and Safari) at the CanSecWest PWN2OWN competition, you might be getting a little concerned that the ‘more secure than Internet Explorer’ choice isn’t, perhaps, so secure after all.

Think open source and you might think many things, but I doubt very much that banking will be towards the top of the list or even on the radar for that matter. Yet the concept of a hacker bank to fund open source projects is exactly what has come out of discussions between a couple of open source hardware nuts, Justin Huynh and Matt Stack, who have now started the Open Source Hardware Central Bank.

Well that didn't take long. No sooner had Microsoft officially launched Internet Explorer 8 to the waiting masses and talked up how new security features will ensure hackers will find it more difficult to exploit the new browser that guess what? Yep, a hacker exploits the new browser.

The media has made much of a Microsoft iPhone killer prototype handset being stolen during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. iTWire ponders if it all might just be a publicity stunt for the failing Windows Mobile OS?

If you thought it was just because the Kindle is way cool and Microsoft SPOT was way crap, think again according to a new piece of research which reckons it is all down to something called the Convenience Quotient.

One of the reasons why netbooks have proved so successful is the inclusion of Linux to lower resource requirements and cost alike. So why has Apricot decided to drop Linux and only offer a Windows XP powered netbook instead?

September 24 is probably not going to be the best day to work at a patent office, considering that geeks the world over are being called upon to gather outside and protest against software patents. But do we need, and what else will be happening on, the World Day Against Software Patents?

Before the big launch, the Jesus Phone accounted for just 0.16 percent of the operating system market as measured by web browsing usage. After the iPhone 3G hit the streets that global share shot up to 0.3 percent. Linux, meanwhile, currently has a 0.93 percent share...

If patenting the obvious is considered something of an art form in the world of IT, then Microsoft is undoubtedly an old master. The Page Up Page Down patent it has been granted would seem to confirm this...

Google has released the 0.9 SDK Beta and admits that its ambitious project to produce the first complete, open, and free mobile platform is "converging on a final Android 1.0" release. It has also taken the bold step of posting an open letter to the security community which, in effect, invites them to hack the Android...

Linus Torvalds is a Finnish born software engineer best known for two things: kick starting the development of the Linux kernel, and owning the Linux trademark. Actually, make that three things. Torvalds has recently become very well known for speaking his mind...

According to various online sources, the fourth largest maker of computers is looking to get involved. The Chinese-based company that acquired the IBM laptop business some years back, Lenovo, is apparently involved in 'active discussions' with regard to bringing out a series of systems with a Microsoft-free desktop running the Linux/Lotus combination.