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After several delays, it appears Microsoft Corp. may get the next version of its Windows client operating system to customers according to its current schedule. The company made Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 available.

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A growing number of Canadians with vision impairments, counting over one million, are being left behind as the next-generation Web takes flight.

Organizations that have reached a high level of IT security practice maturity can safely reduce spending to between 3 and 4 percent of the IT budget by 2008, according to research firm Gartner.

An old adage suggests that the proof of the pudding is in the eating. In the case of Radio Frequency Identification, the proof of the technology may be in the piloting.

Microsoft Corp. has opened up testing of a new Web-based service that allows parents to control what their kids do on the Internet.

Virtually every assumption floating around about customer loyalty is just plain wrong, and this faulty thinking is the source of a lot of dysfunctional corporate behaviour, including sinking big bucks in customer relationship management (CRM) systems that fail to deliver any value.

Shares of Asian PC makers are finally shaking off their summer doldrums as back-to-school sales give them a boost and the upcoming launch of Microsoft Corp.'s new Vista OS improves their longer term prospects.