Sean Michael Kerner

In a lively online discussion Thursday, Microsoft engineers faced off with end users who lobbed irate questions, comments and a few tirades about its Internet Explorer browser. More than any topic, security reigned as the most pervasive theme during the online discussion, including when end users could see the next patch for vulnerabilities in IE. […]

Major ISPs are poised to dominate the market for Voice over IP services over the next three years and could grab up to 30 percent of the residential voice market, a new study says. But VoIP offerings still suffer from inferior sound quality and reliability, according to a research report issued by Mercer Management Consulting. […]

Offshoring accounted for less than 2 percent of IT layoffs in the first quarter of 2004, according to the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which has begun culling which jobs are lost to firms overseas. The numbers helped provide new data in the debate about how many IT jobs are actually being shipped off-shore […]

Microsoft’s technology evangelist is offering “friendly” suggestions to Mozilla open source browser groups and calling for more discussion about how the two sides can benefit from upcoming enhancements in Longhorn, the next version of Windows. “We’re working underneath on the foundation. Longhorn will let you make a new awesome browser that [would] blow away what […]

Red Hat Chairman and CEO Matthew Szulik is slated to announce the company’s new desktop client strategy at a press event in London today. The Red Hat Desktop offering is a strategic attempt by the number one Linux distributor to extend the reach of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) product line on the server […]

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The creator of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, has weighed in on the issue of backporting features from newer Linux kernels into older ones, calling the practice a good thing for the most part. Torvalds comments, in an e-mail interview with internetnews.com, came after SUSE’S CTO, Juergen Geck, told an audience at the Real […]