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October 22, 2012

Gates shares reactions to Microsoft Surface tablet

Pre-orders for Microsoft’s Surface tablet are apparently now on back-order of up to 3 weeks, so there seems to be initial demand for the new tablet running Windows 8. Some stores will have the devices on the shelf on Oct 26th, the same day that Windows 8 launches.

Bill Gates is very positive about the new device and Windows 8 combination, although his excitement seems to be more about the form factor of the device itself, rather than Windows 8 “… just the beauty of the device… it is absolutely incredible”

October 19, 2012

Latest Mac OS X patch for Java removes browser applet support

Following the recent press attention various security vulnerabilities in Java’s browser applet plugin have had in recent weeks (here and here), the latest Java patch from Apple removes the applet plugin from your browsers:

This update uninstalls the Apple-provided Java applet plug-in from all web browsers. To use applets on a web page, click on the region labeled “Missing plug-in” to go download the latest version of the Java applet plug-in from Oracle.

Since Oracle now maintain the official version of Java for Mac OS X, this is a smart move for Apple to remove the older/prior versions that end users may have of the applet plugin that shipped with older JREs previously supplied by Apple.

More details here.

October 1, 2012

JBoss want your name suggestions to rename JBoss AS

JBoss are looking to rename their JBoss AS server, and want you suggestions for a new name. More info here.

September 30, 2012

Rod Johnson joins Typesafe

Rod Johnson, founder of the Spring Framework and the SpringSource company, left Vmware/SpringSource a few weeks back and has resurfaced with Typesafe, founded by the developers of the Scala language.

It will be interesting to see in the coming months whether Johnson can add credibility to Scala to help enterprise adoption of the language.