Fight the bull

Business consulting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has developed a piece of software designed to cut the crap from corporate documents. Bullfighter sits in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint toolbars and, to put it bluntly, scans documents for bull****. Like a spellchecker, but it's jargon not literacy that it seeks out. ...more

Microsoft

Microsoft shapes the world of computing, like no other company. We roundup the latest moves from the software giant. ? Microsoft security: moderate to incomplete ? EU official given leave to join Microsoft ? MSN 8 launches in the UK ? Microsoft to watch over itself ? Ballmer promises 'responsible' Microsoft ? PalmSource sends defiant message to Microsoft ? What's new in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition? ? Windows XP Tablet PC Edition - a second opinion ? Microsoft holds on to fighting fund ? BT allies with Microsoft for broadband onslaught ? Microsoft still faces EU sanction threat ? Microsoft escapes stiffer penalties ? Microsoft upgrades Windows Media Player 9 Series ? Microsoft warns of Hallowe'en security issues ? XP in embedded form gets its SP1 ? Beta code of 'Office 11' emerges &   ? Microsoft Smartphone unveiled ? MSN names UK pricing ? Microsoft, Panasonic propose (another) CD standard ? Microsoft extends product lifecycle ? The score for MS patches: Moderate 2 Critical 1 ? Microsoft announces Bluetooth desktop ? Intel and Microsoft add a pinch of Salt to speech apps ? Office 11 due within a month ? Microsoft extends Office with XML-based XDocs ? New content served up by Microsoft ? Windows XP braced for Bluetooth ? Exclusive interview: Windows . ...more

Microsoft looks at Windows dominance to give its search engine an edge

A source at Microsoft let slip yesterday that Redmond's work on a home-grown search engine is focussed on using Windows to give it the edge. While stalwarts such as Google and Yahoo! continue to add new services to their search engines, both are keeping a close eye on what Microsoft is brewing up in this arena. It may be difficult to see where Microsoft can take search: after all, as deep as its pockets are, there are only so many pages out there to index, and once you've done that, added in a sponsored links feature and so on you're going to end up with something difficult to distinguish from anything else out there. ...more

Intel confirms a multicore future

Intel has finally confirmed what most people had already guessed - that it had abandoned the single core, high clock speed strategy. In future, its products will be multi-core with the first commercial chips arriving next year. In a strategy talk, Steve Smith, VP for Intel's Desktop Platforms Group, said that the new desktop dual core processor - dubbed Smithfield - is slated to replace today's generation of Pentium chips. ...more

Devil-Linux has impish designs

Devil-Linux has now reached version 1.0 and can be run from a CD or even a Flash memory stick. Now you can take your firewall, email server, or VPN client with you. ...more