Ubuntu and Debian now developing "install.exe" programs to allow
Linux to be installed under Windows by a novice:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/install.exe
http://goodbye-microsoft.com/
Microsoft to set the BSA on small to medium businesses in the UK
if they refuse to allow Microsoft staff to audit their companies:
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=8235
The FTC lets Sony off the hook with no financial penalty for their
rootkit installing DRM, but fines a spammer nearly US$0.5M:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070130-8738.html
Florida looks set to scrap touchscreen voting consoles, and a
ballot-rigging conviction looks likely in Ohio:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070131-8745.html
Microsoft Vista comes under fire from an unusual source - the Green
Party. They object to it on ideological and environmental grounds:
http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2851
Microsoft tries to justify using the Word 2007 rendering engine in
Outlook 2007, even though it lacks some HTML and CSS features:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2088904,00.asp
DAVE, A nice little 20GB WiFi/Bluetooth storage unit for your pocket
that talks to mobile phones, about RAZR size. Open platform too:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/seagate_offers_.html
And finally. Farewell then Floppy, I knew thee well. UK Computer
superstores are not going to restock on 3.5" floppy disks:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6314251.stm
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.