Nancy Weil - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Nancy Weil

Article | 9/06/2000 MS/DOJ: Microsoft requests a stay on remedies

Microsoft has asked a US judge to stay behavioural remedies in the government's antitrust case against the software maker until the company has exhaus...

Article | 31/05/2000 Antivirus Software Goes Free

Antivirus software may be getting easier, but at least two products can't get cheaper.

Article | 10/05/2000 MS/DOJ - SIIA blasts expected Microsoft remedy proposal

Microsoft's response to the US government's plan to break up the company and impose behavioral remedies to stop the software maker's anticompetitive p...

Article | 27/04/2000 IBM to Preload Servers with Choice of Linux

Customers of IBM's Netfinity servers will now be able to buy machines pre-loaded with the Linux operating system and will be able to choose from three...

Article | 3/04/2000 MS/DOJ - Mediation Ends, Case Back in Judge's Hands

US District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson could release his "findings of law" in the federal antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. sometime thi...

Article | 24/03/2000 Microsoft Denies Settlement Reports

Rumor says Microsoft will settle to prevent a breakup, but the company denies the scuttlebutt.

Article | 10/03/2000 Vendors Form Embedded Linux Consortium

Representatives from some 30 vendors have formed the Embedded Linux Consortium, known as ELC, to promote Linux-based embedded applications, the group ...

Article | 29/02/2000 IBM obtains approval to ship 256-bit PCs globally

IBM on Wednesday will announce that it has obtained approved from the US government to sell business computers with 256-bit digital key decryption glo...

Article | 14/02/2000 Did your server help the cybervandals?

This week's hack attacks co-opted Web servers as launch pads; here's how to secure your system.

Article | 11/01/2000 Future Ford cars to include 'net access

Voice-activated communications and information systems offering security features and Internet access will be standard in 2001 model-year Lincoln luxu...

Article | 21/10/1999 Future computers will feel your pain

Most, if not all, computer users have at least occasionally felt the urge to boot their machines in a literal way, but within the next decade, compute...

Article | 14/10/1999 Another IE 5 security flaw found

Microsoft might consider putting Bulgarian programmer Georgi Guninski on the payroll. The software maker has acknowledged that Guninski discovered yet...

Article | 20/09/1999 MyHelpdesk.com offers online tech support

Computer users frustrated with fruitless searches for information to help them with software or hardware problems may find relief at a Web site launch...

Article | 16/09/1999 Lotus to integrate Windows media into Notes

Future versions of Lotus Development's Notes and Domino software will include Microsoft's Windows Media Technologies, the company recently announced.

Article | 2/09/1999 Faster, cheaper new Net on the horizon

The Next Generation Internet, commonly called NGI, will be faster, less expensive to use and better able to accommodate more high-speed access options...