3685 blog results for "open-source software"

Windows 7 features called Direct2D and DirectWrite will speed up Internet Explorer 9 performance. But Firefox hopes it might retool for the same benefit first.

Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland

The gurus said that the community would change the way the industry develops and sells software. The gurus were wrong.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

Puzzled onlookers have wondered why Google is overseeing two separate operating-system projects. Co-founder Sergey Brin thinks that at some point the two will become one.

Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit

Microsoft is now offering support for MySQL, which should give pause to every open-source company that expects to make money through support subscriptions.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

Gartner's Nick Jones wants to characterize Apple as a consumer company, but what happens when those consumers start using Apple's tech in the enterprise en masse?

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

No, the search giant isn't saying it will build a Netbook. But it sure knows what it would like one running Chrome OS to resemble, and that's a little different from the Netbook of today.

Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit

Does the Firefox backer want to turn its open-source browser into the basis for an operating system a la Google's Chrome OS? Not for now at least.

Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland

The revenue growth rate tapered off to 5 percent from 12 percent the year earlier. A search deal with Google still supplies the bulk of the Firefox backer's money.

Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland

Monopoly is a dreaded word for the open-source community, so why are we as prone as anyone else to embrace natural monopolies?

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

The third beta imposes a new restriction on how third-party software can interact with it. And a feature called Resource Package could speed up Firefox 3.7.

Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland