Computing

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Jan 2006 18:32 UTC (OS News)

12 May 2008

"It has been a while since the pre-beta release of Symphony OS , a user-friendly distribution with a rather unusual desktop called Mezzo. Back then, the project attracted quite some attention in the media for fearlessly developing a unique approach to performing general computing tasks.

Microsoft's Hailstorm reappearing in the cloud? (ZDNet)

12 May 2008

"What is this Windows Live Mesh? It's a way to synchronize files." Joel Spolsky -- in classic Joel Spolsky style -- takes on Microsoft (but Google is also on his "radar") to task for fueling a round of hype around the whole notion of Cloud Computing....

Google gains on Microsoft with hosted security offering (ZDNet Asia)

12 May 2008

The search giant's latest Web-hosted offering, Web Security for Enterprise, gives it a leg up on Microsoft in a digital world increasingly turning to cloud computing, experts say.