One of the interesting stories from a couple of weeks ago was Microsoft were going to buy the parent company of Gator – the ad-ware / spyware thats in so many p2p programs.
Well it seemed like the world was going to end. Had Microsoft gone mad? What idiot was behind this idea?
I think it would [...]

One of the interesting lines I picked up from Microsoft’s announcement that RSS will be integrated into IE7 and Longhorn – they were Betting Big on RSS.
That’s a big statement from Microsoft. They don’t say it often – probably about every 5 years. Previous Big Bets have been The Internet, Security and XBox.
RSS will no [...]

No one could deny that Microsoft has been taking a pounding from press and users for the last 12 months. Even more so than usual.
They have been beaten up about security, bugs, IE6 being stale, delays in SP2, delivery of SP2, SP2 breaking things, etc etc.
The lead-up to and release of Firefox from Mozilla got [...]

For the last 12 months or more I have been using NOD32 as my anti-virus of choice.
http://www.nod32.com.au/
For years I used Nortons Anti-Virus and thought it was OK. But I think that had a lot to do with the fact I got free Symantec software as part of my old job. When you don’t have to [...]

As you might know, a couple of weeks ago Apple announced that it will be moving from its current platform of IBM Power PC chips, to intel.
At first it seemed like a huge rumour that “leaked” a few days before the conference to generate some hype for it. Certainly no one was talking about it [...]