Software

Mozilla Firefox was voted the #1 product of 2005 by PCWorld Magazine. Other F/OSS winners included: Ubuntu "Hoary" (#26), Mozilla Thunderbird (#28), and Wikipedia (#60).

Microsoft placed once in the top 100 with Windows Media Player 10 (#47).

[Complete list]

"Mozilla is forthcoming about vulnerabilities," Levy [of Symantec] said, whereas "it takes Microsoft far longer to acknowledge vulnerability."

How much longer? "In the last reporting period, the second half of last year, Microsoft had acknowledged 13 vulnerabilities. We've now revised it to 31. The difference is that now Microsoft has acknowledged these vulnerabilities."

That's more than double the number of problems Microsoft started with.

[Read more]

Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc. today announced the University of Toronto at Scarborough (UTSC) has standardized on StarOffice(TM) office productivity software for all student computing resources. This ensures every student on campus has access to the leading office productivity suite for Linux, UNIX® and the most popular alternative for Windows-based computers.

[Read more]

The State of Massachusetts is migrating to open-source software for all government documents. The move will come at the expense of Microsoft and other proprietary technology providers.

[Full Story]

Zotob variants, today's Windows worm, are running roughshod over Windows 2000-based businesses. The businesses being smacked by Zotob are a laundry list of some of the world's biggest, best, and, when it comes to IT, dumbest companies.

[Full Story]