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Microsoft rolled out the beta of Office 2010 and other productivity software, and made some key announcements about its Windows Azure cloud platform, during the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week. Even as Microsoft moves to embrace the cloud, the release of Google Chrome OS to open source for developers on Nov. 19 suggests that Redmond may eventually have to think even further about the cloud--and ways it could potentially move parts of its Windows franchise from the desktop to the Web.
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IDC analyst Al Hilwa said Chrome Operating system will take some hard selling by Google and its partners to get on netbooks, those hard disk-less machines from Asus, Dell, HP and others that let users access Web applications. He wonders if consumers and enterprises will accept only running Web applications and not local apps. Gartner analyst Ray Valdes wonders how serious potential hardware partners will be about Chrome OS. Will netbook makers use Chrome OS as a bargaining chip to get better deals on Windows operating system licenses from Microsoft?
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The argument about hard disk drives versus solid-state drives has been going on for a long time and will continue for years to come. There are those who are convinced that SSDs will indeed outnumber hard drives in the IT business at some point in our lifetimes. Data storage experts consider the question at a Stanford roundtable.
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With the help of a fully featured plug-in, developers can create Force.com software from within Eclipse. eWEEK Labs takes the plug-in for a spin.
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Microsoft at PDC Nov. 18 shared some new ideas it's bringing to Internet Explorer 9. The company says it plans to make the browser more Web- and developer-friendly, while still maintaining the familiar Internet Explorer identity. That sounds nice, but in the end, Microsoft said very little about what it specifically plans to offer in IE 9.
Realizing that, we have decided to take a step back, evaluate Internet Explorer and try to determine what should make its way into the next version. It won't be an easy task. In recent years, Microsoft has made strides in the effort to improve Internet Explorer with its new Suggested Sites feature, as well as InPrivate, a security mode. But there is still much to be desired, and Microsoft has some heavy work ahead if it wants retain its dominant position in the browser space. To help get the development project started, here are 10 features we really want to see in IE 9.
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Google is pairing its automatic speech recognition technology with its YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms that power automatic voice mail transcription in Google Voice to generate captions for video on the fly. This a boon for deaf and hearing-impaired users who want to enjoy the millions of videos on the YouTube video sharing service. Google's YouTube team is also launching automatic caption timing, making it much easier for users to create captions manually.
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Twitter Nov. 19 released its geotagging API to programmers, but users won't yet be able to access location-based services from the Twitter.com Website. The feature, which allows users to selectively annotate their tweets with their exact location and provide more context to users about their surroundings, has been implemented on Twitter applications such as Foursquare, Gowalla, Twidroid and Seesmic Web. Creepy? Perhaps, but likely only to someone who wouldn't opt in to use such a service in the first place.
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Three men were charged by federal indictment Nov. 19 in connection with attacking Comcast.net and redirecting traffic to sites under their control. The group altered Comcast's DNS records and is estimated to have cost the company more than $128,000.
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Chrome OS is a sort of Web operating system that boots up a netbook in a fraction of the time it takes to start today's existing computers, with Web applications loading in just a few more seconds. Google is trying to make the Chrome OS load time closer to that of a television than a computer. To do that, Google cut out several computer booting processes, and Chrome OS is geared for Flash-based storage. Security is also unique. The Web apps will run on application tabs within Chrome OS, which users will access with one click and manage in persistent windows if they so desire. The first Chrome OS netbooks won't appear until 2010, going head to head with Microsoft Windows Azure devices.
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From 2003 through 2005, IBM veteran Erich Clementi helped lead the resurgence of the revamped IBM mainframe as general manager of the System z division. When obituaries were being written about the demise of the mainframe, Clementi and his team went off to rethink and redesign the old-fashioned Big Hunk computer. Now he's leading the all-encompassing cloud computing initiative.
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Cloud computing is a dilemma for today's CIO. The potential to cut capital expenditure and rein in operating costs is so compelling that CIOs will push aggressively for cloud adoption. However, good managers understand that cost savings isn't the only variable to consider when evaluating whether to adopt cloud computing. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Scott Morrison offers 10 tips for CIOs to follow to successfully implement their cloud governance and adoption initiatives.
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Google released the Chrome Operating System, an alternative to Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X, to open source for developers, but said end users will not be able to use the Web operating system until late 2010. During a demo, Google's Sundar Pichai showed how Chrome OS booted up on an Asus Eee PC netbook in 7 seconds, with 3 more seconds to log onto an application. Chrome OS had the look and feel of the Chrome Web browser, which has 40 million regular users. Chrome OS was designed with speed, simplicity and security in mind.
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In a few short years Facebook and Twitter have attracted so many users and had such an influence on the way people interact on the Internet that Salesforce.com has decided that the social networking paradigm is the way for people to interact with its cloud CRM application. On Nov. 18 the company introduced its upcoming Salesforce Chatter, a "secure enterprise collaboration application and social development platform," as the highlight of its annual Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco. Chatter will provide links to Twitter feeds and Facebook profile information. Salesforce users will be able to filter the most relevant Twitter feeds through Chatter to track the competition, watch for new business leads and follow developments and user opinions about a particular product or industry.
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MindTouch Nov. 19 joined Google, Zoho, Microsoft and a raft of others in SAAS with MindTouch Cloud, embracing the Internet as a way to deliver collaboration applications. MindTouch Cloud lets non-technical sales representatives or business managers pull business data from CRM and ERP applications, such as Salesforce.com, SugarCRM, and Oracle, and weave them into documents in team workspaces. MindTouch CEO Aaron Fulkerson said his company is targeting Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration platform and Google Apps, which offer classic document and spreadsheet applications without blending in the business data.
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WAN optimization vendor Riverbed in 2010 will begin rolling out products designed to improve application performance and storage capabilities in public cloud environments, such as Amazon’s EC2. Among the products will be a Riverbed Steelhead software offering designed for public clouds. Riverbed demonstrated some of these capabilities at an event in New York.
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A recent case seems to show that we can lose access to our e-mail accounts and other cloud-based apps for simply avoiding the kinds of e-mails that pretty much everyone would assume were spam.
Organizations need to take care to ensure that applications in the cloud are secure and compliant--and can be proven as such. Experts say the public cloud might not be suitable for some applications right now, but that providers will face increasing pressure to develop systems that can be used securely in a cloud computing environment.
Known in the past for introducing innovations that wouldn't appear in rivals for years, Opera continues to push browser boundaries--just not as much in Version 10 as in previous versions. That said, Opera 10 boosts performance on flaky connections, and offers interface and mail client improvements.
With Microsoft's Bing and Google's Chrome OS, each company made a move that was more characteristic of the other. Are the companies adopting each other's best or worst habits, and can the enterprise benefit from a Google-Microsoft morph?
By working to shift the center of application development to the Web, Google isn't only improving its own position, but is also doing Apple, the open-source community, Microsoft and the rest of us a big favor.
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