Opinion

Next Windows – Vienna – to break backward compatibility

Microsoft takes open source approach to software distribution

NSF requests $6.43 billion to fund network and other research

Buy prepaid credit cards without an ID or age limits?

What could go wrong?

The Super Bowl of Surveillance?

Mindzap: extrasensory perception lab at Princeton University closing

In Backspin this week: The how, why and where of future IT

Smaller hard drives are yielding big benefits in the data center

* Drives are getting smaller, faster and cheaper

The graying of the IT workforce

How to be a more creative IT professional

Time to get it right

* Congress gives us another IT problem with new Daylight Saving Time

Why Microsoft embracing OpenID is a good thing

* Microsoft reaches out to the open source community

What the LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit has in store

* LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit is this week

Wi-Fi, dual-mode phones mature

* Alliance certifies nearly 100 Wi-Fi-capable phones

Management innovation: Follow the money

* Trend for venture capital funding around network and systems management continues to grow

A lesson in SOA model-based mgmt.

* WS-RT specification lets users manage complex model systems

Cisco buys social networking vendor

New players entering online storage backup market

VoIP security threatened by default settings, warn experts

Ethernet inventor makes the Inventors Hall of Fame

Volpi bolts Cisco

* Mike Volpi leaves Cisco

Study provides insight into hacks

Carriers to integrate business support systems to their IP nets

* Interview with Bob Rosenberg, president Insight Research Corporation

Attendees at RSA Conference drop ball on Wi-Fi security

Connecting a building to the campus LAN

Getting systems ready for daylight-saving changes; Connecting a building to the campus LAN

How Wi-Fi hotspots force you to log in

Management tools reviewed, AT&T teams with Microsoft, and more

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Vista — The calm in the eye of the PC storm

Letters to the editor: “2007: The Year of Being Outraged?”