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YouTube Fridays: When Seinfeld met Gates

A man best known for a TV show about nothing manages to make a Microsoft commercial about nothing. Perhaps this is a teaser for...

Here’s to the 12 per cent of trustworthy IT administrators

I don’t really buy it: A survey came out last week which said 88 per cent of IT administrators would take valuable information with...

Office through a browser minimizes server use

A startup called ZoooS takes the best of OpenOffice.org and offers a productivity suite that avoids the dangers of hosting information in a cloud. Why the forthcoming IE8 may help

Microsoft’s virtual desktop licensing and the de facto user base

I once worked with a guy who had started about a year before I did, but it wasn’t until he quit (after another five...

Cut! We don’t need Google Video for business

Give employees a photocopier, and at office Christmas parties you’ll invariably find a few of them drunk enough to use the machine to make...

IBM tries to get information on corporate agendas

Big Blue will offer common definitions of terms like

YouTube Fridays: Fake Larry Ellison discusses ‘Coexistence’

I have no idea where this clip came from or who was behind it, but it's a send-up of Oracle Corp.'s Fusion strategy that's...

Microsoft offers tool to verify

From Elizabeth Montalbano of IDG News Service: Microsoft has updated software that verifies whether a copy ofWindows is genuine in its Windows XP Professional...

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