There is an interesting review of the upcoming Windows Server.  The OS seems to be full of goodies to simplify daily administration tasks and to improve security.  It is nice to see, that PowerShell is finally making it into the OS - Microsoft keep on learning fron Unix experience. more »

Heiko Ebens, a Merrill Lynch director, claimed , that hedge fund industry has ceased to deliver higher than average returns and can be mostly replaced by index trackers. Merrill Lynch's trackers, for instance. more »

As some of you probably know, Google provides an "on-line office" - AJAX-based web application, which allows you to edit formatted text and spreadsheets on-line, storing them on Google's servers. There are some extra features, including change tracking, sharing of the same document with other Google users etc. I tried to edit a very simple spreadsheet today. Although the interface is quite slick and not dissimilar from, say, Excel, it … more »