Windows news from FierceCIO

While Microsoft had not yet promised that it would distribute a release candidate of Windows 7, Windows site Neowin.net now says that Windows 7 RC will be made available to the public in May. Prior... Read more...

Linux founder Linus Torvalds spoke to Computerworld Australia on open source development in a Q&A. While the topics were hardly Microsoft-centric, I found his insights pertaining to Microsoft's... Read more...

It has been the dream and passion of many to create a strong Linux-based competitor to Windows--open-source software freely altered, cheaper and better than proprietary codes. But for all the effort... Read more...

Google's new web browser, first unveiled just three months ago, has come out of beta. Google Chrome 1.0 is now available for download for the Windows platform. Linux and Mac versions are still being... Read more...

Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) has just been released as a public beta. Vista SP2 has been in the testing phase since October, and is scheduled for release around April of next year. Because SP2... Read more...

Internet Explorer's market shares dipped below 70 percent for the first time in the wake of the launch of Google's Chrome web browser, and slightly better showings for Apple's Safari and Mozilla's... Read more...

The final version of Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac has been released. This new version of the popular virtualization tool allows Intel-based Mac hardware to run Windows applications, and features... Read more...

On the heels of Microsoft's launch of Windows Azure, EMC has stepped out, this week, as the latest IT juggernaut to unveil its own cloud-based platform. Called Atmos, the platform is a combination of... Read more...

As promised by Steve Ballmer earlier this month, Microsoft has announced a new version of Windows that will run over the Internet from data centers hosted by Microsoft. Called Windows Azure, the idea... Read more...

Microsoft has made good on an August warning and rolled out a new, more aggressive version of its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tool for Windows XP systems. Computers running versions of Windows... Read more...