Majority of new PCs ship without Windows Vista, Gates (unintentionally) reveals

Posted: 10 Jan 2008 08:59 AM CST

Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system is proving far less popular with new PC buyers than Windows XP did during XP’s first year on the market, if statements by company chairman Bill Gates at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show are any measure..

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Microsoft apologizes to Corel

Posted: 10 Jan 2008 08:59 AM CST

Microsoft Corp. yesterday apologized to rival software vendor Corel Corp. for saying that Corel’s file format posed a security risk. Microsoft also issued new tools to let users of Office 2003 SP3 unblock a host of barred file types.

In a posting to his own blog, David LeBlanc, a senior software development engineer with the Microsoft Office team, admitted the company’s mistake in attributing security problems to certain file formats, including the one used by CorelDraw.

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OLPC with both Windows and Linux

Posted: 10 Jan 2008 08:59 AM CST

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The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project and Microsoft Corp. are working together to develop a dual-boot system to put both Linux and Windows on laptops aimed at kids in developing countries, the head of OLPC said in an interview Tuesday.

“We are working with them very closely to make a dual-boot system so that, like on an Apple, you can boot either one up. The version that’s up and running of Windows on the XO is very fast, it’s very, very successful. We’re working very hard to do both,” said Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of OLPC.

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