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Windows XP users who install the operating system's third service pack will not be able to roll back their versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft's deployment manager for Internet Explorer 8 has warned.

Microsoft has said it is resuming two major Windows updates that had been halted because of a conflict with one of its own software products.

The first beta-test version of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 productivity suite was released this week, adding significant features such as improved Mac OS X support and support for the OpenDocument 1.2 standard.

Owners of some AMD-based computers are finding the move to Windows XP Service Pack 3 has sent their systems into an endless reboot cycle.

The UK is lagging in the use of open source, even though it is now established as the best way to produce and consume software, according to speakers at the Open Source Forum, sponsored by Red Hat and its partners,

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If you're anything like the Round-Up or indeed any other sane and well-adjusted person, then last Friday you got up at an ungodly hour and queued in the rain outside an O2 shop to buy a new phone.

The BBC has appointed former Microsoft employee, Erik Huggers, as the new director of its Future Media and Technology division.

India's outsourcing giants are suffering sluggish growth in contrast to record-breaking spending on global services in 2008.

Apple's operating system is gaining ground on Microsoft Windows, with second-quarter results showing the company inching close to a 10 per cent market share in the US.

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VoIP telephony providers will have to enable customers to make calls to the emergency services, following a ruling by Ofcom.

I'm just flabbergasted that people have been so blinded by the marketing hype."

The University of Exeter has finished the test-stage of a 5.5m network upgrade project slated for implementation this December.

Key computer systems demanded to protect the public in the wake of the Soham murders have not been delivered.

O2 is considering investing in its own fibre-to-the-home network but wants to wait until Ofcom changes telecommunications regulation before it makes an investment.

Google is offering web developers a slice of its own infrastructure by announcing the preview release of the Google App Engine platform, which provides access to the same database building blocks used by the search giant.