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After delaying the release several times, Microsoft now assures the world that Vista will meet its slated launch date of January 2007. Vista represents the first major overhaul in five years for the venerable Windows operating system. Windows is used on about 90 percent of the world's computers, and its sales account for about one-third of Microsoft's total revenue.

I often get asked for web-based scheduling programs. I've done quite a few of them over the years, sometimes using scripts available from the web, but more often writing my own simply because I don't like modifying other people's code.

A flurry of reports have Google's newest executive, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, the center of a non-compete lawsuit controversy, beginning his duties on schedule in Beijing despite squawking from Microsoft's camp. The hotly contested president of Google China had a busy day Monday, working to get the research center off the ground.

What if writing and delivering software were like publishing a newspaper? After more than fifty years of practicing software development, the experts of our trade are now agreed: we are still useless at it.

With the dot com burst of 2001 companies now demand more tangible ROI from each project that they approve. In order to remain competitive in today's feature-rich products' world, companies need to complete the implementation of even complex features in record time.