The Microsoft Mac Business Unit has released Service Pack 1 for Office for Mac 2008 users. The update brings a slew of bug fixes, small changes and performance enhancements, but the real news is the accompanying announcement that the next revision of Office for Mac will bring back support for the Visual Basic for Applications [...]

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Wine, the easy way to run Windows apps on Linux, is inching closer to a 1.0 release after nearly fifteen years of development. Part of the reason for the long development process is the Wine essentially creates a compatibility layer for running Windows programs without having to have Windows installed. As you might imagine, that’s [...]

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Seems like version 5’s improved class handling just came out yesterday. The new edition, of which snapshots are available, seems like a pretty moderate upgrade. It adds built-in tools for working with XML and SOAP, support for creating custom namespaces for methods and classes, and better Unicode handling.
Version 6 also ditches several features that have [...]

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It’s about friggin’ time. That’s what you’ll say to yourself at some point in the next few months when you realize you can finally surf the Web from seat 17C. Alaska, American, Southwest, and Virgin America all plan to roll out airborne Wi-Fi this summer. The price to you: about $6 to $13 a flight. [...]

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Five years ago, if Hewlett-Packard bought EDS, everyone would’ve thought it was pretty much like when IBM bought PwC — a play to create a powerful data processing consulting business that could coexist with a computer hardware business. In fact, that’s been a great model for IBM.
But with HP today buying EDS for $12 billion, [...]

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