Software

Facebook and Zynga are facing a class-action lawsuit over their 'scam' advertising strategy. It's alleged that they 'cheat' users of games like Farmville and Mafia Wars. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers re-arrange the furniture to watch the show.

No doubt they're breathing a big sigh of relief at Microsoft right now, after the world has had a first look at the Google Chrome operating system. Chrome represents absolutely no threat to Windows for the foreseeable future, just at a time when Microsoft is vulnerable.

Google and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, have been working together on Chrome since before the project was announced and they'll continue to do so.

Starting at 1 PM EST, Google will be unveiling its Chrome desktop operating system. Follow the blow by blow here.

I've just put the beta of Microsoft Office 2010 through its paces for a Computerworld review, and while there's plenty to like, there's plenty that should be made better as well. Here are five ways it can be improved.

No more rumors. This time, it's real. Chrome, Google's Linux-based desktop operating system is on its way.

Microsoft announced more details of its Azure cloud computing plans for Windows yesterday. Ray Ozzie talked about how Microsoft's going to crush Amazon and VMware into itty-bitty pieces. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers are mostly impressed.
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When it comes to sheer, unadorned speed, nothing else even comes close to Linux.

By J Schwan

Too often the Buy vs. Build argument gets turned on its head when enterprises who buy a packaged solution to save money, end up spending more customizing it to fit their business' needs. When I say packaged here I am referring to things like ERPs, CRMs and even newer SaaS based applications. Customizing packaged apps is expensive since you often need proprietary skills and knowledge to make any changes. It gets even more expensive when it comes time to upgrade and many of those customizations need to be refactored or rewritten.

Microsoft has good reason to be pleased with recent figures that show Bing has a nearly 10% share of the search market, nearly 31% higher than a year previous. But it still lags far behind Google, which has 65.4% of the market. If the goal is to catch Google, it will never happen.

Self service, drag and drop application provisioning store, combined with desktop personalization features, give end users more control of their virtualized desktops.

What's funny about the Linux desktop of ten years ago is how much it looks like the Linux desktop of 2009.

The Editor of ZDNet.com gets infected with scareware and approaches the problem from the wrong direction. It's an interesting lesson, one that shows how important it is to have disk image backups.

Microsoft admitted that it violated the GPL2 with a recent software release, and is now going to re-release the program under the right open-source license.

A Google executive has admitted what most already people know: Google Docs simply isn't yet good enough for prime time. "We wouldn't ask people to get rid of Microsoft Office and use Google Docs because it is not mature yet," Dave Girouard, president of Google's enterprise division recently admitted. He said, though, that he expects that to change in the next year.