Paul Rubens

Why use an operating system other organizations have rejected? That’s a question many enterprises will be asking themselves when considering moving some or all of their Windows desktops to Microsoft Vista. A small minority of organizations run Linux or Mac OS X on the desktop and have no interest in Vista for that reason. But […]

Here’s a great idea to put to your CIO: Why not run the company using a server operating system made by Mattel? It’s the company behind Barbie and Hot Wheels (not to mention Tumblin’ Monkeys), so it certainly knows a thing or two about toys. Maybe its designers have enough time to put together an […]

How long does it take to spot a bug in an operating system? The answer, it seems, can be as long as 33 years. At least, that was the case with a recently discovered bug in the yacc parser generator originally developed at AT&T back in the 1970s and discovered recently by OpenBSD developer Otto […]

Bill Gates stepping down from running Microsoft marked the end of an era in the software industry, but it doesn’t mean that we’re about to see a sudden change. That’s because things have been changing steadily over the last 30 years or so, ever since a young Bill Gates sent his furious “open letter to […]

When Microsoft’s new back-end operating system launched earlier this year, a number of new features caught the eye, and it’s fair to say that it was generally very well received. But now that the OS has been out for a while, is it all it was stacked up to be? This, it turns out, is […]

You don’t need a Nobel prize for Economics to realize that the world’s economies are facing a slowdown or recession head on. And it doesn’t take a genius, or large leap of logic, to work out that your data center’s budget is likely to face a cut. Whether you have an inkling a cut is […]

Microsoft’s hypervisor-based virtualization technology will hit the streets in its final version some time this summer. Hyper-V, formerly known as Viridian, will be rolled into the Data Center and Enterprise Editions of Windows Server 2008. Although much hyped, this is not Microsoft’s first venture virtualization. Its Virtual Server product holds that distinction. Hyper-V, however, is […]

No need to call the homicide squad after you take a look at Windows Server 2008: You won’t find any killer features in this release. But that’s not to say there’s nothing to get excited about. There’s a great deal that’s new, and depending on the set up of your organization, it’s almost certain you’ll […]

The writing has been on the wall for some time. Electricity use in data centers is skyrocketing, sending corporate energy bills through the roof, creating environmental concerns and generating negative publicity for large corporations. Because IT budgets are limited and because governments in Europe and the United States may soon impose carbon taxes on wasteful […]

Well-made and highly popular, if Microsoft Exchange were a TV show, it would undoubtedly be Friends, and Exchange Server 2007 would be an episode called “The One That Got the Biggest Market Share.” The Redmond giant’s latest iteration of its e-mail platform is expected to win a great many customers — mainly at the expense […]