Microsoft has traditionally been a company that sells packaged software for personal computers. However, as several companies have recently created online environments for running applications, Microsoft has quickly changed their strategy to compete with this new model (which is now often called “cloud computing”). As described in MIT’s Technology Review, “a computing cloud is made by […]

A huge story in the IT world this week was the announcement of the acquisition of Electronic Data Systems by Hewlett-Packard. Information Week reported that the deal is the largest in the outsourcing sector’s  history, and that it is the second largest ever in the IT industry overall (It’s second only to HP’s $19 billion buyout of computer […]

The big news in the computing world this week was Google’s unexpected announcement of a new web browser, Chrome (www.google.com/chrome). The first question that many people had, including David Pogue of the New York times, was “Does the world really need an other Web browser?” Well, Google’s answer is likely that the web is evolving into […]