The death of Windows XP may have been greatly exaggerated.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company could re-evaluate its plans to phase out Windows XP by June 30, if customers demand that it stick around. So far, they have not.
“XP will hit an end-of-life. We have announced one. If customer feedback varies, we can always wake up smarter, but right now, we have a plan for end-of-life for new XP shipments,” Ballmer said during a Thursday news conference in Belgium, according to Reuters.
Someone exploited a weakness in Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s Web site and redirected visitors to rival Hillary Clinton’s site over the weekend, according to a posting on the blog of security firm NetCraft.
Basically, visitors to the community blogs section of Obama’s site on Saturday night were sent to Clinton’s site. Someone using the alias “Mox” claimed credit for the hack on Obama’s site late on Sunday…more
U.S. telecommunications giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the Internet’s current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010.
Speaking at a Westminster eForum on Web 2.0 this week in London, Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T, warned that the current systems that constitute the Internet will not be able to cope with the increasing amounts of video and user-generated content being uploaded…Read the full story
