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Getting back in the business on the cheap.

Microsoft has finally released details of the hardware requirements for its upcoming Windows Vista, ending months of speculation about what it will take to really run the new operating system. Prepare your credit card now.

Step one: Buy Veritas for USD10.2 billion Step two: Sue Microsoft for using Veritas' technology Step three: profit?

I for one welcome our ... oh, that's the other site.

Free unlimited storage for whatever you want to store, with military grade encryption. Free. It's 1999 all over again?

Microsoft's standard proposal moves a bit closer to being reality, ODF looms in the ISO shadows.

Sun has begun working with the Eclipse Foundation, enabling Solaris developers to use SWT.

News for Thursday, May 18 2006

Is the commute worth a new job?

VS 2003 acting up? Just delete a few files.

The recording industry is suing XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. for copyright infringement over a new portable radio that offers iPod-like features.

For those of you who just like to dabble, check out this resource.

50% of office workers would rather give up their morning coffee than Internet access.

The ability to supply power over a network connection has great promise, but where are the devices? Next stop: Power over WiFi

Office SharePoint Server 2007 will peer deep into workers' computers, building profiles of what it finds so other employees can find out what those employees know.

Three medium-sized planets of roughly the same mass as Neptune have been discovered around a nearby Sun-like star.

aka The Composite UI Application Block for the .NET Compact Framework. This helps develop occasionally-connected apps for devices.

Learn how to create games with the Express editions, and have a chance to win arcade machines (US only).

News for Wednesday, May 17 2006

Borland has unveiled a three-year road map for its JBuilder IDE. Still no word on the new owners of "DevCo", though.

Microsoft Corp. has filed a countersuit against Lucent Technologies Inc. in a dispute over Microsoft's alleged misuse of patented technology in its Xbox 360 games console.

Want to mashup maps and data? Microsoft's just launched its own way to do this with MapCruncher.

Immediately following the lawsuit with Apple Corps, Apple Computer Inc. on Monday was sued again by Creative Technologies, maker of the Zen media player, for patent infringement.

What to do so that they're remember you (and let you graduate)?