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Sun conducted a survey of small and medium-sized businesses (up to 500 employees) to discover their usage and intentions towards open source software and MySQL in particular. I was interested to see the report, particularly after attending an open source round table last week about open source software in government. The researchers interviewed around …continue reading UK lagging rest of Europe in open source adoption Ever wished computers had a “do what I mean” button? Here’s a case in point. I use Outlook/Exchange rules to sort email into subfolders. I set up a new rule, and was annoyed to find that while messages were correctly being moved into the selected folder, they were not being deleted from the source …continue reading Why Outlook rules copy a message when you asked for it to be moved Microsoft has released its free Security Essentials software, antivirus and antispyware protection aimed at home users. It runs on XP 32-bit, or Vista or Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit, the only technical restriction being that Windows must validate as “genuine”. Businesses are meant to use Forefront Client Security, though “home-based small businesses” are specifically …continue reading Hands On with Microsoft Security Essentials – terrible name, but product looks good Google Chrome Frame is an interesting twist in the browser wars. Web developers can now add a tag to a page that forces Internet Explorer to render it using an embedded version of Chrome: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1"> The concept is not so different from Mozilla’s Screaming Monkey, which replaces the IE JavaScript engine with …continue reading Hands On with Google Chrome Frame I was surprised by the announcement that Silverlight is being ported to Intel’s Moblin Linux, which I’ve already reported both here and on The Register. It feels like a u-turn from Microsoft, which had previously stated that while it would build Silverlight for both Windows and Mac, Linux support was to be done by …continue reading Microsoft, Moonlight and open source Adobe’s Mike Chambers has revealed a new feature in AIR 2.0, the desktop runtime based on Flash. At the Flash on the Beach conference in Brighton, he showed the NativeProcess API. You can “call and communicate” with external applications. There are several restrictions, for security reasons. The application must be distributed as …continue reading Native API coming to Adobe AIR 2.0 Intel has announced its Atom Developer Program including a new app store. The idea is to encourage a flow of applications that are well suited to netbooks, rather than general desktop applications that tend to get pressed into service because they are there, but may not be well suited to the smaller screen and …continue reading Intel gets into the App Store game – but where does Silverlight fit in? |
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