Stories by Matthew Cooney

FSR: a final hurdle for Microsoft software

Many software vendors are caught between a rock and a hard place, trying to balance the need to support legacy software against the threat of malware and malicious hackers.

Protect at the PC level: MS's Riley

The most common undetected ways of moving data to and from networks is through instant messaging software and portable USB drives, says Microsoft's Steve Riley.

XML stutters at info transfer

XML was touted as a way for computers across the internet to share information, but an IBM evangelist says it has found most success in cutting internal IT costs.

E-commerce patent seeker threat fades

Local e-commerce companies are hopeful that they've seen the last of DE Technologies, the Canadian firm that tried to claim licensing fees from New Zealand e-tailers last year, but the company's CEO claims the matter will be resolved by the courts.

Microsoft's Office XML lags on Mac

Microsoft is readying a new version of Office for Macintosh for release in the first half of 2004 — one which doesn’t support many of the much-touted XML features of its Windows cousin, Office 2003.

Year in Review: Developing a loyal user base

Those expecting a holy war this year between Microsoft’s .Net tools, Sun's Java and various open source alternatives will have been disappointed, but it’s heartening to see that most of the development options appear to be thriving.

Spring clean for Office suites

It's the month for new desktop application suite releases with freshened versions of both Microsoft Office and its wannabe open source competitor, OpenOffice, being launched. However, there's no apparent stampede to adopt the new packages.

Microsoft finds inspiration in freeware world

Open source activists such as the free software foundation may not regard Microsoft Corp.'s shared source license as "open", but shared source manager Jason Matusow makes it plain that the company has been inspired and influenced by the free software movement.

Godzone code bound for .Net

The next version of Microsoft’s .Net development frameworks may well have some code written at New Zealand's University of Canterbury.

NZ firm puts Linux on desktops

Desktop Linux has made a small inroad into New Zealand business with the news that BGH Group is installing 67 Linux thin clients into offices around the country.

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