Last week, I introduced the idea that free and open source software (FOSS) is a market leader in most areas of computing and it's also a viable upgrade path for users of the soon-to-be-orphaned Windows XP.
As many in the business, education and government sectors wring their hands over the impending demise of Microsoft's venerable Windows XP operating system, the IT media is offering helpful advice on moving to the more recent, apparently quite good MS operating system, Windows 7.
Microsoft has withdrawn an application for a patent for word-processing XML documents, several years after it originally filed the application in New Zealand.
The New Zealand Open Source Society has teamed up with Victoria University's School of Information Management to poll ICT vendors on their ability to support free software.
The presidency of the New Zealand Open Source Society is up for grabs, as the current president, Peter Harrison, is not standing for re-election.