Software

Microsoft's Vista is expected to ship early next year, but companies shouldn't even think about deploying the new operating system until well into 2008, Gartner analyst Michael Silver says.

The freeware movement is not the end of software. It has been three or four years where our most significant competition has been free. We have learned customers care about total value, not cost of actual software, but total cost, says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

A hacker broke into Google Inc.'s main official blog and posted a false message on Saturday, saying that the company had decided to cancel a joint project with eBay Inc. The intrusion marks the second time this year that Google's official blog has fallen into unauthorized hands.

Microsoft Corp. has issued 10 security updates to its Windows and Office software. Six of the 10 updates are rated critical, the most serious rating given by Microsoft.

Google Inc. has laid speculation to rest -- it is buying YouTube Inc. for US$1.65 (Cdn$1.87b) billion in a stock transaction.

Exchange clustering requires Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition or Datacenter Edition for each system in the cluster, as well as the more expensive Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. In addition, hardware choices are limited if you want Microsoft support.

With hackers exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities in its Windows and Office software, Microsoft Corp. plans to issue 11 security updates on Tuesday.

In the "old days" of the 1990s, Nokia focused on developing technologies for communicating via voice and data, said Bob Iannucci, head of Nokia Research Center. But now and into the future, Nokia expects to move away from a telecom-centric approach into an information technology way of thinking, he said.