A bevy of Windows blogs including Neowin.net, GeekSmack.net, and Wzor report that the final "gold" build ofWindows 7 will occur on July 10 and the OS will see a release-to-manufacturing on July 13. Read more...

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Those who are working in Embedded Linux, this is a must read article. Find it here...

Intel is now shipping versions of Intel Compiler Professional Edition 11.1 for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Intel says the products help developers build, analyze and optimize performance of parallel applications for clusters using Intel 32- and 64-bit architectures. Read more...

An brief article on using keyboard shotcuts and commands to shutdown, reboot, hybernate and stand-by in Vista and XP. Find it here...

Google is weighing whether to encrypt its Web-based Gmail service by default, as suggested by a group of internationally prominent Internet security and legal experts as a way to mitigate privacy and security risks. Read more...

While lots of fanfare has been given to Microsoft's latest search engine Bing, which is really just Windows Live Search Improved, the true test of how Microsoft technologies will fare against Google is a Silverlight versus Wave battle, say the development folks at Zoho. Read more...

A review on Microsoft free antivirus software. Read more...

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One of the topics of ongoing interest in the kernel community is that of maintaining quality. It is trivially obvious that we need to maintain and even improve quality. It is less obvious how best to do so. One broad approach that has found some real success is to increase the visibility of various aspects of the kernel. This makes the quality of those aspects more apparent, so this tends to lead to an improvement of the quality. Read more...