Microsoft releases Office 2010
Microsoft has this week made Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 available to business users on a volume licence. The software will hit retail shelves 15 June.
The tech giant is bullish about the prospects of its new free online Web Apps, which it thinks can help stave off rivals like Google Docs.
Microsoft also released SQL Server 2008 R2 this week.
Adobe versus Apple continues...
Adobe and Apple have continued to bicker over Flash and what constitutes an open attitude this week.
Adobe's founders took aim at Apple, and even ran a series of newspaper ads proclaiming to love the Californian firm, but not be so keen on its closed nature.
Read on for more about the battle here.
The best of the rest...
We were on the ground filing from conferences across the US, with stories about EMC's cloud plans, Tibco's prediction of the death of CRM and Citrix's warning for IT to keep up with the digital generation.
Also this week, tablet rumours abound, with Verizon and Google teaming up, and BT said to be working on its own. And Archos is actually set to deliver a tablet, at the relatively low price of 129.
BT also promised this week to invest another 1 billion into fibre broadband, giving two-thirds of the country access by 2015.
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OpenAI announces UK data residency plans as Sam Altman hails ‘fourfold’ increase in Brit customersNews A deal between OpenAI and the Ministry of Justice will drive data sovereignty and broader use of ChatGPT
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GitHub is scrapping some Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini models in CopilotNews GitHub Copilot users are urged to switch to the newer models following the retirement cut-off
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Adobe co-founder John Warnock dies aged 82News Warnock was pivotal in the development of the PostScript programming language in the early 80s
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Adobe erased users' photos with botched Lightroom updateNews The company has admitted that some customers' photos and presets are not recoverable
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Apple pulls support for QuickTime on Windows, leaves Adobe hangingNews QuickTime video codecs still needed in Adobe After Affects and others
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Government plans to get 2.7 million people online by 2016News BT, EE, Google and Microsoft to help tackle digital exclusion
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BT Windows 8 Enterprise case studySponsored British Telecom boosts field staff efficiency with Windows 8 Enterprise solution
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Windows apps tailored for your businessSponsored In addition to the thousands of apps ready to download from the Windows Store, businesses can create apps that serve their individual needs
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Google and ISPs efforts won't stop spread of child abuse images, warns NetClean CEONews ISP blocks can't stop spread of child abuse images through P2P and shadow internet networks.
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Australia takes Apple, Microsoft and Adobe to task over high product pricesNews Tech giants have been summonsed to appear in front of an Australian parliamentary committee to explain product pricing strategies.
