Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols - Author

Stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Article | 12/08/2008 Windows' Days May Be Numbered

Could Microsoft be switching away from Windows?

Article | 30/07/2008 Could Microsoft actually be getting an open-source clue?

I couldn't make it to OSCON last week, but I have read the announcements that Sam Ramji, the director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab, made at...

Article | 23/07/2008 Open source still the best way to develop software

A recent report claims that one of the fundamental benefits of open-source development, the co-called Law of Many Eyes is wrong. The idea behind the l...

Article | 18/07/2008 Linux can save us

In case you haven't noticed, the economy is collapsing.

Article | 15/07/2008 How CAPTCHA got trashed

CAPTCHA used to be an easy and useful way for Web administrators to authenticate users. Now it's an easy and useful way for malware authors and spamme...

Article | 27/06/2008 Dear Microsoft, thanks for the help, Linux

You gotta love it. Microsoft has decided that it will ho ahead and kill off easy access to XP on June 30th. On behalf of desktop Linux users everywher...

Article | 18/06/2008 Firefox 3 fixes what's broke

The Mozilla Foundation is celebrating the arrival of Firefox 3 with a worldwide party -- and an attempt to set a new world record for the most downloa...

Article | 12/06/2008 Five reasons why it's not business as usual for Microsoft

Bill Gates will be leaving Microsoft for good at the end of the month and Microsoft would have you believe that it will be business as usual for Micro...

Article | 2/06/2008 Five reasons to fire Ballmer

On July 1st, Bill Gates will retire. He'll still spend about 20 per cent of his time on Microsoft projects. If Microsoft is to retain 20 per cent of i...

Article | 26/05/2008 Is Microsoft Office in trouble?

At first, when I learned that Microsoft was not quickly supporting its own Open XML, but ODF and PDF instead, I thought it was a great joke. Microsoft...

Article | 19/05/2008 Firefox 3 First Look

I've loved Firefox since version 0.93. It was so much better than Internet Explorer and the other alternatives that I couldn't imagine using anything ...

Article | 7/05/2008 Malware vs. anti-malware, 20 years into the fray

As I recall, November 2, 1988, started as an ordinary day at Goddard Space Flight Center where I was working in the data communications branch. By the...