News and video from Gartner's Symposium event, which is being held in Sydney this week.
Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, has labelled pirated software as a "tougher competitor" to his company than open-source software.
Companies can better protect their confidential information by creating an incident response department to deal with suspicious queries, said infamous ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick.
Microsoft chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates, detailed his vision to Australia this week. However, he didn't have it all his own way.
Australia's biggest Linux conference will kick off next week and the organiser has promised that attendees will get a lesson in how to control and monitor everyday objects -- including a toilet flush -- using the open source operating system.
You'd think that a national military scandal would be enough to convince people to take a little care with portable storage devices, but apparently not.
Within hours of arriving at the AusCERT conference in the Gold Coast on Monday, my PowerBook decided it would rather commit suicide than listen to Microsoft's top security executives answer questions about Vista.
So you've done the math and decided there may be a good business case for Linux after all. Just make sure you don't dive into the world of open source without fastening the rope securely to the bridge.
There were two things that really made me do a double take when looking at the results of our software survey: the high number of users who had upgraded to the latest Windows operating systems, and the high number of those users who wish they were using something else (an open source solution perhaps?).
Companies are beginning to see open source software as a viable alternative for the enterprise, according to a leading analyst.
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At a press conference in Sydney this week, antivirus firm F-Secure demonstrated how one of its malware analysis tools -- called FS-CSI graphically displays the behaviour of software.
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