Jason Brooks

Today Microsoft laid out a major new interoperability initiative that’s meant to “increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for developers, partners, customers and competitors.” During the press conference that Microsoft executives Steve Ballmer, Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia and Brad Smith held this morning, much was made about the […]

For the past several months, anyone who’s asked me about the latest big new thing in IT has gotten an earful about Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2. With this service, which I reviewed last year, you pay Amazon 10, 40 or 80 cents an hour (depending on the RAM, storage and CPU) and you […]

Microsoft’s Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has hit the RTM milestone, so if you’ve been waiting for SP1 to begin your organization’s move to Vista, now is the time to start turning over your upgrade engines. On the other hand, if the conventional wisdom around the SP1 marker isn’t enough to get your Vista testing […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-through: Windows Server 2008 eWEEK Labs Walk-through: Windows Server 2008 – Server Core Windows Server 2008 may be deployed in a new, stripped-down Server Core configuration, which significantly reduces the attack surface of systems hosting certain Windows Server roles. eWEEK Labs Walk-through: Windows Server 2008 – Windows Deployment Services I installed a couple […]

“Faster” and “slimmer” are two adjectives to which few software product upgrades can lay legitimate claim-particularly if the software upgrade in question is a Windows operating system. And, yet, Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008, which recently hit the RTM (release to manufacturing) milestone, demonstrates that Microsoft is capable of producing a lean, mean server machine-and doing […]

Wireless handset and infrastructure giant Nokia has announced plans to acquire Trolltech, a purveyor of application frameworks for desktops and mobile devices. Trolltech is perhaps best known for the QT framework, which forms the core of the open-source KDE (K Desktop Environment). For Nokia, the primary motivation behind the Trolltech pickup appears to be Qtopia, […]

Today, Sun Microsystems turned heads by announcing plans to lay down seven and a half percent of its current market capitalization to acquire open-source database vendor MySQL AB. Why did Sun do it? Look no further than the other major acquisition announced today, in which Oracle declared victory in its months-old bid to purchase middleware […]

Apple’s subnotebook wunder-machine is nigh. I’ve been waiting for an ultralight Web and writing machine for a long time now. So, should I run out and pant outside my local Apple store until the first units arrive? Based on the information available right now, let’s weigh the pros and cons … Pros: The Macbook Air […]

Introducing Apples MacBook Air Introducing Apples MacBook Air – Fits in a Manila Envelope The MacBook Air measures 0.16 to 0.76 inches thick by 12.8 inches wide by 8.94 inches deep, and weighs 3 pounds. During his keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs slipped the machine into a manila envelope to demonstrate its small size. Introducing […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Likewise Enterprise 4.0 The graphical interfaces for Likewise Enterprise depend on the open-source implementation of Microsoft’s .Net Framework, Mono. eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Likewise Enterprise 4.0 – ‘Joining Active Directory‘ I used Likewise Open to join an Ubuntu 7.10 client to a Windows Server 2003 domain. eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Likewise Enterprise 4.0 – […]