Redmond (WA) - The first significant update for Windows Vista is on its way to the consumer. SP1 is in production now and will be available to users in March. Microsoft also announced the release of manufacturing of Windows Server 2008. The service pac Read more

IBM has released the fourth beta of its OpenOffice.org-based office suite "Symphony". The new version includes a faster spell checker, support for password-protected Excel files, additional languages for the installation GUI, as well as improved data i Read more

Review - Corel is about to release a new version of its "Draw" graphics suite, which is one of the very few remaining complete graphics suites on the market. Now in its 14th generation, it hasn’t lost its original look and feel and remains the most con Read more

VMware shares plunged as much as 27% in after-hours trading Monday after the virtualization software developer reported fourth-quarter sales that fell short of Wall Street forecasts and didn’t immediately give an earnings or revenue outlook for its cur Read more

Screen and Video Capture software vender TechSmith is exploring which of its products will be a good fit with Mac OS X. Read more

Corel has updated its CorelDraw package, which remains one of the few alternatives to Adobe’s Illustrator (and neighboring applications) for graphics enthusiasts. Version X4, the 14th generation of Draw, follows almost exactly two years after the intro Read more

Joomla.org has released the download of version 1.5 of its open source content management system, previously code-named Khepri. The software, which had been in development for more than two years, is offered as a "stable" version, but the developers do Read more

MacSpeech Dictate takes home one of Macworld 2008’s esteemed Best of Show Awards Read more

Searching for an affordable alternative to Adobe Illustrator on Mac OS X? You may find one at Macworld in Dekorra Optics’ EazyDraw. Read more

San Francisco (CA) - Mac Office 2008 has begun shipping, giving owners of Apple computers a crack at the latest version of Microsoft’s productivity suite. The announcement was made during Steve Jobs’s 2008 Macworld keynote. It is the first time that a Read more

Reversing its initial decision to keep the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 release candidate restricted to private testers, Microsoft has made the near-complete upgrade available for download to the general public. Although still not a final version of Vi Read more

Redmond (WA) - ZDNet UK’s Richard Thurston is reporting that Microsoft has admitted it made a mistake over a security advisory issued in December relating to Office 2003. When SP3 was released, it shut down over a dozen file format converters due to se Read more

Redmond (WA) - Windows Home Server is Microsoft’s new operating system, but that doesn’t spare it from serious problems. Several users have reported file corruption issues when using certain programs and now Microsoft is warning people to not save file Read more

Chicago (IL) - Following close on the heels of Opera 9.25, Mozilla has released a second, and much improved beta version of its Firefox browser. Microsoft also joined the announcement frenzy with a note that the software will be out in the first half o Read more

Microsoft has released version 2.0 of its XNA Game Studio, which enables game developers to create cross-platform games for Xbox Live and Games for Windows - Live. Version 2.0 is based on XNA Game Studio Express and, according to Microsoft includes "mo Read more