The final stage before a general release could come as early as Friday.

ownCloud is free and open source solution for a central place where you can store your files and documents. You don´t have to upload your personal data to central closed services like Google Docs, Dropbox or Ubuntu One. All the data is under your own control. You can access your files via WebDAV without a special client.

Have you been thinking about upgrading your computer to Ubuntu 10.04? I recently made the leap, at the prompting of my Update Manager. The process went fairly smoothly, but I did have to deal with a couple of minor annoyances. Since you never know exactly what may happen when you decide to upgrade, here are a few tips to get you started.

Analysts say that Google is slated to start shipping its new Chrome OS software into a corporate and consumer market that's due to change operating systems.

We did it! NZ is (very nearly almost) free of software patents!

Who's got the safest operating system? Apple, Google, Microsoft? According to one security expert, what really matters is who's using the OS.

Earlier this year, Alfresco announced record company results - despite the recession - and fellow open source vendor Nuxeo also doubled its revenue last year.

Half of the enterprise computers running the aged Windows XP operating system are still relying on the soon-to-be-retired Service Pack 2 (SP2), a researcher said today.

Microsoft is urging users to dump the aged Internet Explorer 6 with a campaign that claims the browser is past its expiration date.

A just-published attack tactic that bypasses the security protections of most current antivirus software is a "very serious" problem, an executive at one unaffected company said today.