OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."
In a strong indication that Microsoft's long awaited operating system Vista may be delayed beyond its January release date, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said publicly that there is an 80% chance it will ready for release on time.
According to an Associated Press report, Gates, who is in South Africa,
said he would delay Vista if beta testing showed the product was not
ready.
Vista, which has been five years in the making, has been delayed so
many times that the long suffering public, not to mention developers
and suppliers are becoming numbed by the constant push back of the
release date.
A hint that Vista was likely to be delyed yet again was dropped at the
beginning of this month when Microsoft let it be known that the release
of Office 2007 would be delayed until sometime in "early 2007". It has
been Microsoft's stated intention to release the two products together.
Microsoft relies heavily on its two flagship products Windows and
Office for the lion's share of its earnings and revenues. The continual
delays in new releases has seen growth in revenues from the two
software products flatten considerably.
Aside from its difficulties in bringing the upgrades to market,
Microsoft is being threatened in both areas by the emergence of
competing open source software and web services solutions. On top of
this, the shift of Apple to the Intel platform has raised the spectre
of possible leakage of home PC consumers from Windows to Mac OSX.
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