China bars some MS Windows versions
Microsoft Corp has been ordered by a Chinese court to stop selling versions of its MS Windows operating systems (OS) that include fonts designed by a local company. The violation of licensing agreements has been mentioned as the primary reason for the same.
The ruling, issued by Beijing’s No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court on Monday, signals an open challenge for the many of the international software makers struggling with piracy in China.
Predicting more lawsuits could be filed by the various local companies, Michael Vella, head of China litigation and intellectual property rights at Morrison & Foerster LLP, said, “Chinese firms are going to think of China as a place to have their own litigation strategy, I think that’s a trend that’s coming.”
As of now, Microsoft will have to stop selling the Chinese versions of its Windows 98, 2000, 2003 and Windows XP, according to the court ruling. It is unclear when the ruling will take effect or how many copies are affected.
Google to launch Chrome OS
Google is now thinking a step forward, this time a giant leap to capture users!
After having challenged Microsoft’s Internet Explorer already with the launch of its browser Chrome, the internet search giant is now planning the launch of its very own new computer operating system to compete directly with the Windows platform!
Google’s own OS, the Chrome OS, was designed initially for low-cost netbooks. This will now offer its program code to developers across the globe and create another ‘open source’ competition for the software giant, Microsoft.
WOWD, the real-time search engine
With an aim to be identified as the Skype for search, the beta version of WOWD, the Internet’s newest search engine, was launched last week at the 2009 Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
WOWD aims to distinguish itself from the popular mainstream search engines like Google and Yahoo! by identifying the most popular sites in real-time and hence wooing the internet search audience.
WOWD is a deliberate play on the word Crowd as it aims to differ from the rest by focusing on new trends, news, and popular topics and pages on the Internet.
In a method little similar to Digg, the internet users download WOWD browser application, and then every page visited by them is nominated for inclusion on the search engine’s results page.
The WOWD browser application is available for the Mac, Windows, and Linux.
The home page of WOWD offers three different tabs, Hot List, Search, and My Pages. The Hot List is available to everyone and results by popularity. Results are constantly updated giving you an update on the sites being visited by other users.
The vulnerable PC
According to official reports 98 percent of windows computers in India have been found to run at least one unpatched application, and nearly half contain 11 or more programs at risk from attack, according to Copenhagen-based security company Secunia. It further stated that 98.1 percent of the PCs on which its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility was installed over the last week have one or more applications that have security updates available for downloading. Only 1.9 percent of windows systems that ran the PSI utility for the first time had no out-of-date programs.
The study done on 20,000 users also revealed that about a third of the systems ran a vulnerable version of five or fewer programs, while nearly half of the machines ran 11 or more insecure applications.
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