Although we have yet to see an OS X worm appear in the wild, and the operating system itself is pretty well guarded by virtue of it not having many network services turned on by default, the risk to Macintosh users has just gone up. Making the rounds recently is …

SCO yesterday released their 10-Q (provided courtesy of Yahoo Finance), which provides investors with an understanding of their performance for the preceding three months and their official outlook on the future. Besides mentioning the $15.5M made from their SCOSource licensing program over the past two quarters and giving specifics …

In a move that shows the success of Verisign's campaign to rid the world of ICANN's individual representation, the largest domain name company has taken over all nonexistent domains worldwide. Yesterday, if you had typed www.somerandomname.net, you would have gotten an error message from your browser. Today, you …

Microsoft is hardly a beloved name in the computer industry, but when software patents are in question, everybody rallies to the support of the defendant. The latest example of this is a blog entry from Ray Ozzie (formerly of Lotus and currently of Groove Networks). Microsoft in August fell prey …

The Economist has a fine article on the growing discord between Microsoft and (especially foreign) governments over the future of software. At issue is not only the cost, but issues of control, proprietary software vs. standards, and reliability. At the crux of the story is the defection of Munich, Germany …

A site has been established by the attorneys general of the states involved in the anti-trust legislation against Microsoft to provide information about the settlements and to gather information about possible infringement.

As was widely reported last week, Japan, China and Korea are trying to put together a program to jointly develop an Open Source operating system to stand as a competitor to Microsoft's dominant Windows operating system. In an interview with Wired, Microsoft spokesperson (and former US trade official) Tom Robertson …

In a somewhat hesitant article, Gaming-Zone.net has announced that SF has released 1.0 of XEON, an XBox emulator for the PC. Details are a bit sketchy and it appears hard to get running, but it is available as a download. Editor's note: Although the post is gone, there's …

I've speculated on this a number of times, but now an article from CNet is talking about Microsoft's moves to integrate "rights management" technology into the Office 2003 product. Microsoft is selling it as an enhancement that allows businesses to determine who will be able to read confidential data, however …

In good news for Linux and OS X aficionados, Federal Computer Week is reporting that the US OMB has added OS X and Linux to the list of supported operating systems for federal use. Previously, only Microsoft's Windows and Sun's Java 2 platforms were supported.

Because of the recent (to me, remember I've been gone for 2 weeks) internet worm, Microsoft has apparently contracted with Akamai to serve their crucial web pages under load conditions. An article from CNet reports the systems as using Linux (although I thought they were running FreeBSD), but either way …

IBM let loose a fusillade of legal firepower today aimed squarely at blowing away SCO. The computer giant, considered three decades ago to be the most controlling, powerful, and anti- competitive company in the industry (like Microsoft is today) is in the interesting position of being the "defender of the …

The US may have decided that the world's largest software company is in the clear, but the EU has a different take, according to this article from BBC News. Their focus, quite happily for me, is Windows Media Player (that bastion of proprietary digital rights management, with which Microsoft is …

If the folks at Red Hat needed any more proof for their allegations in a Deleware court that SCO is using scare tactics to frighten customers away from their 'wares, they got it today when the company announced their pricing for Linux users. According to an article from CNet, the …

While commenting in Computer Reseller News on the SCO v. IBM lawsuit, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates asserted that he believes there is Microsoft intellectual property inside of not only Linux, but other open source programs as well, and he may be right. The issue at hand here isn't copyrighted code …

According to a survey on Netcraft (an internet server analysis site), the number of JSP (Java Server Pages) sites has grown almost 100% over last year, despite Microsoft's heavy push for ASP (Active Server Pages) and .NET development. More interesting is that almost 26% of the sites are running Microsoft …

Not wanting to be left out of the online music game, buy.com will introduce today their BuyMusic.com service, intended to compete with Apple's iTunes Music Service, according to this report from the Associated Press (carried by Yahoo!). When I am able to actually access the system, I will …

Don't like the way Safari looks or acts? Microsoft Internet Explorer got you down? If you're a Macintosh developer and have installed the latest SDK from Apple, you can write your own web browser with "one line of code" by following the instructions in this article from CocoaDevCentral. Admittedly, the …

It's not the whole case, but CNet reports that Microsoft has lost an important ruling in the case brought against it by small software and technology company InterTrust Technologies. The case involves the use of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology and patents currently held by InterTrust. The company has a …

Apple's stock was up in after-market trading after the company announced that they had earned a profit on increased revenues of 1.55B in the last quarter. Although still much smaller than the Microsoft Windows market (Apple is number 7 in personal computer sales), the showing was strong enough to …