Open Source EU
EU Internet Commissioner Neelie Kroes warns that governments can accidentally lock themselves into one company's software for decades by setting it as a standard for their technology systems. Ms Kroes, in her previous post as EU antitrust chief, fined Microsoft hundreds of millions of euros in a lengthy row over the tying of a Microsoft's Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system.She now wants to draw up guidelines for European governments to require other software, especially programmes based on open source code that is freely shared between developers.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/sns-ap-eu-eu-open-software,0,5937710.story
The PC is dying
There is panic in the air: the PC industry as we have known it is beginning to die. PCs are becoming commodity items. The price of PCs and laptops is falling by about 50% per decade in real terms, despite performance simultaneously rising in real terms. The profit margin on a typical netbook or desktop PC is under 10%. The PC revolution has saturated the market. Anyone who needs and can afford a PC has now got one. At the same time, wireless broadband is coming. Software will be delivered as a service to users wherever they are, via whatever device they are looking at -- their phone, laptop, tablet, the TV. You will not have home broadband; you will just have data on demand wherever you are. You will not have a "computer," but be surrounded by devices that give you access to your data whenever and however you need it.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/why-steve-jobs-hates-flash.html
Using IE is like downing an HIV cum cocktail
A security consultant at a Black Hat conference showed how to exploit a flaw in Internet Explorer that turns your personal computer into a public file server. In other words, an attacker can remotely read files on the victim's local drive. The flaw is said to work across all versions of Internet Explorer.
Germany: Stop using Internet Explorer!
The German government has warned web users to find an alternative browser to Internet Explorer to protect security. The warning comes after Microsoft admitted IE was the weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems. Microsoft says the security hole can be shut by setting the browser's security zone to "high", although this limits functionality and blocks many websites. However, German authorities say that even this would not make IE fully safe.
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