Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has unveiled Microsoft’s new Bing search tool on the last day of D7.

Bing search (www.bing.com) will not launch publicly until June 3 but the D7 audience got a nice overview of some of the features from the audience.

The results page shows the best match at the top. Similar to Ask.com and the new Wolfram Alpha search engine, if you type in a simple question an “instant answer” will appear.

As part of the demo, Steve also searched for an American Airlines flight number. The top field on …

Maximum PC has written a brief overview of 5 different types of free servers (including network attached storage) which you can use on that extra PC that you have sitting around your house/apartment/basement. As long as it has some disks you are set to go.

The article looks at:

unRAID Server
FreeNAS
ClarkConnect
Amahi Home Server
Tonido

Read more here: The Freeware Files: Make the Most of your Spare Storage with Five Freeware Servers! | Maximum PC
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Microsoft has released Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. The update adds support for additional hardware and standards, including 64 bit processors from VIA.

The update also includes Windows Search 4.0, which is the latest version of Microsoft’s desktop search client, plus improved WiFi performance after resuming from sleep mode. In order to install Windows Vista SP2, you’ll need to have Service Pack 1 installed.

You can download Windows Vista SP2 here.
You can also read more Information about Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and for Windows …

£8 million a year to Microsoft, with no public bidding. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, say open source activists.

Linux vendor Red Hat, and 17 other vendors, have protested a Swiss government contract given to Microsoft without any public bidding. The move exposes a wider Microsoft monopoly that European governments accept, despite their lip service for open source, according to commentators.

The Red Hat group has asked a Swiss federal court to overturn a three-year contract issued to Microsoft by the Swiss Federal Bureau for Building and Logistics, to …

Google has released version 2.0 of Google Chrome, with more JavaScript speed improvements, new feautres and bug fixes.

JavaScript-heavy web pages will now run about 30% faster and there are some useful features like form autofill, full screen mode, and the ability to remove thumbnails from the New Tab page.

Here’s a short video demonstrating some of this new functionality:

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The new Linux.com site has been launched. For those who don’t remember the Linux Foundation took over the site in March and have been planning the relaunch since then.
In addition to Linux news, product listings, and more, Linux.com is designed to be interactive; ‘for the community by the community.’ You can:

Gain Guru Points for contributions to the site and compete for the “Ultimate Linux Guru” recognition and prizes
Create a group for your LUG or developer group and invite friends to stay informed. (linux.com/community/groups)
Add an Event to the Linux.com …

The Free Software Foundation and Cisco have announced that they have reached a joint agreement and settled the law suit which the FSF initiated in December. The settlement announcement, which had been expected after an order to dismiss, was filed with the district court, sees Cisco agreeing to appoint a Free Software Director for the Cisco subsidiary Linksys who will enforce the company’s compliance with the terms of the GPL. Cisco have also agreed to notify customers who have received products which contain FSF programs of their rights with regard …

Following the success of the Learn FreeNAS blog by Hi-Tech Squad’s Gary Sims, he has started a new, wider and more general blog about Network Attached Storage. As well as covering FreeNAS this new blog will cover other NAS products (both free and commerical) including OpenFiler, NexentaStor and NASlite.

The blog will also cover news and tips about the various NAS technologies including iSCSI.

You can find the new blog at Network Attached Storage News.

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