Opinion

Salvation or shell game? It’s anyone’s guess with Windows 10

Windows 10 will save us from Windows 8! But a look at upgrade paths and licenses will send you down the rabbit hole

Everything you need to know about iOS 8 extensions

How long have you been wishing that iOS apps could work together? Now they can!

Twitter, the FBI, and cloud computing: The disclosure dilemma

Twitter sues the FBI over data gathering, with major implications for cloud computing

Taking FC SANs to the Next Level with Clustered/Scalable SANs

Enterprise applications benefit from the non-disruptive operational capabilities of scale-out storage and clustered SAN with the use of Fibre Channel

Larry Ellison and the cloud: Spot the difference!

Back in 2009, Larry Ellison mocked cloud computing; in 2014, he loves it

VC chorus: Wild spending signals bubble trouble

Wild spending by startups and ludicrous valuations of companies with no profits threatens to stifle the tech job boom

As patent trolls fade, a group formed to combat them thrives

The Open Invention Network grows dramatically despite a Supreme Court decision that dealt patent trolls a mortal blow

Amazon’s assimilation of the Washington Post is nearly complete

To no one's surprise, Jeff Bezos has made good on his promise to subsume the venerable Post into the Amazon machine

Office 365: The three latest new features you should know

Microsoft's 'most strategic API' gets more enhancements, and the service gets better pricing for small businesses

32GFC – Long Live Fibre Channel!

Apple’s Handoff: What works, and what doesn’t

Taking one of the most intriguing new technologies for a spin

HP’s split doesn’t help its cloud outlook

More focus and innovation might help Hewlett-Packard become a better cloud option, but it's too late to contend

It doesn’t matter whether HP splits into two companies

Hewlett-Packard's struggles are unrelated to its corporate structure, but focusing there helps deflect attention

Windows 10: You’re welcome, Microsoft!

In our best John Hodgman voice, InfoWorld takes full credit for Windows 10, which looks like it was lifted from the Windows Red plan proposed by us 15 months ago

How thin? Imagine the Linux server as a process

Imagine a time when processes and services are completely transitory and server-agnostic, carrying their dependencies with them; it's not far away

Is Gnome 3.14 winning back Linux users?

In today's open source roundup: Gnome 3.14 might be bringing users back from other desktops. Plus: Why are command line interfaces still popular? And a preview of the gaming distro Play Linux

ARM’s Mbed falls short of true open source

Virtually all essential infrastructure is now really, actually open source. Did ARM not get the memo?

3 lessons from the big cloud reboot

AWS, IBM, and Rackspace unexpectedly rebooted their clouds last week, to customers' unpleasant surprise

Shellshock proves it: CGI must die

Remember that incredibly stupid thing you did a decade or two ago? You wouldn't want to live it down every day. Neither should the Internet

Moving Hadoop beyond batch processing and MapReduce

Apache Tez framework opens the door to a new generation of high-performance, interactive, distributed data processing applications

What technology execs can still learn from Steve Jobs … and Aristotle

The reality distortion field wasn’t merely clever PR: Jobs used the three tools of classic rhetoric to define the world to Apple's advantage

Take a leap of faith — Windows 10 deserves it

The first glimpse of Windows 10 may be enough to make you believe in Microsoft again

The executive bonus plan: All for us, none for you

Employees at one company are doubly disrespected when they discover the fate of their holiday bonuses

Windows 10: It’s make-or-break time for Microsoft

Windows 8 has been a debacle on several fronts, and the Windows name is so tarnished that only a hit new version will save it

The censored cloud: The new reality for us all

Russia and China may reflect the extremes of government information control, but a new world order will affect all cloud users and providers

How to set the Internet back 30 years in a few easy steps

The perfect storm of the Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger and the Net neutrality fight will decide our future for decades to come

Mobile users favor productivity over security — as they should

If you force employees to choose between productivity and security, you're the problem

LibreOffice’s superlow defect rate puts proprietary software to shame

LibreOffice code is among the cleanest you'll find, with one-tenth the defect density of the average proprietary code base for similar-scale apps

3 key changes you must make to succeed in the cloud

The movement to the cloud means that people, processes, and technology must change

Shellshocked: Yes, it’s a huge threat, and here’s why

Shellshock is not overhyped. Systems of every size will be affected for a long time to come. Patch now!

Sexist like me: The Evan Thornley startup manifesto

An Australian tech exec reveals the secret to his success: Categorically underpaying women. Give the man a medal!

Meeting the DevOps Challenge: Lessons from Five Tech Leaders

John McAfee advises Larry Ellison on his retirement

From one tech legend to another: You think you'll retire, but you never will

Tech companies: Stop wasting your talent and do this instead

While the digerati drool over toys and services for the rich, innovation in manufacturing is creating jobs and wealth for the companies that get it

Bridging the IT Skills Gap

You messed up, junior — now take a break

The new kid on the IT team braces for a teachable — and teasable — moment when a system reboot goes awry

The sum of all cloud security fears

Resistance to the cloud is more emotional than technical, but gut reactions do matter

Building the “Cloud of Clouds” with CERN

With Ellison’s exit, Oracle can finally do the cloud right

Oracle's cloud strategy faces one fewer hurdle as Larry Ellison steps down as CEO

The skinny on thin Linux

In the leap from Web to cloud, the new shape of the Linux server is thin, light, and fine-tuned to a single purpose

Enterprise architecture proves its worth

InfoWorld, Forrester Research, and the Penn State University Center for Enterprise Architecture present the 2014 Enterprise Architecture Awards

Mobile security: iOS vs. Android vs. BlackBerry vs. Windows Phone

iOS 8 and Windows Phone 8.1 both up the ante for mobile management, but iOS 8 also raises questions beyond MDM tools' capabilities

What HP’s buyout of Eucalyptus really means

Why did HP, an OpenStack company, purchase a private cloud AWS clone? Perhaps it’s better to ask why AWS did not

Four ways Docker fundamentally changes application development

One of the most popular open source projects in history, Docker fundamentally shifts the way we think about building applications

4 ways Docker fundamentally changes application development

How Docker containers streamline development and deployment, encourage best practices, and enable a new breed of micro-services based applications

Alice is killing the trolls — but expect patent lawyers to strike back

The wheels of justice spin slowly, but they seem finally to be running software patents out of town

Apple needs a smarter argument to sell Apple Pay

People will need a lot of convincing before they’ll use their smartphones to pay at retail. Security and widespread adoption — not convenience — will be keys

3 make-or-break interview questions for developers

It's developer season at my company. Unlike with deer season, we’re hiring rather than shooting, though not all survive the interview process

Danger, danger — the robot arm has gained sentience!

The day's routine is livened up with a tape silo with a robotic arm, a tool to automate tasks, and a tech staff with a sense of humor

Windows 9: A new hope

Three UI changes show a positive new direction away from the unloved Windows 8