In a little less than 5 months, Microsoft will be ending the direct OEM and Retail availability of it’s Windows XP operating system. Most recently, InfoWorld has launched a campaign to "Save XP" from it’s inevitable future of unavailability through OEM and Retail channels.

While many have elected to join InfoWorld in it’s "Save XP" initiative, I really think it is time to move past the ever aging operating system and let it go.

In all honesty, we need to be saved from Windows XP. Or at least those that don’t want computing to advance past 2001. InfoWorld’s "Save XP" campaign aimed at convincing Microsoft …

  It looks like business adoption of Windows Vista is starting to pick up in the United States, just under half–48 percent–of IT decision makers in the U.S. are using or evaluating Windows VIsta.

According to a poll from CDW (an IT Services Firm), business adoption of Windows Vista is increasing, this is CDW’s third tracking poll since October 2006, CDW is reporting a 19 percent increase in adoption since February 2007.

Vista migration is also increasing, with 35 percent of those surveyed saying they are in the process of moving to Vista. Just 12 percent said this last February. Thirteen percent of these migrations are complete …

It has come to our attention that a profile over at Myspace is posing to be Windows Update, the MySpace page that foists malware on users by spoofing a Microsoft update down the center of the profile.

While the image looks authentic enough to pass as an actual Windows Update window, the image is superimposed over the profile of a Myspace user who goes by the name of Rita. Clicking on the picture, or anywhere near it, initiates a download that, if accepted, unleashes a malware cocktail that includes downloaders, Trojans, and backdoors from multiple servers.

Attackers are sending friend requests to MySpace users in the hopes …

In yesterdays Keynote, Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and CEO of Comcast introduced a new technology called Wideband. Comcast will evolve its network from broadband to wideband with the deployment of DOCSIS 3.0, setting a new standard for super-charging Comcast customers’ Internet experience with speeds of 160 Mbps or more in the future.

The technology is more than 25 times as fast as the operator’s current standard broadband package and, Roberts said, it will let cable jump to the broadband lead ahead of phone companies in the next few years.

A movie download that might take six hours on today’s DSL connection, for example, …

Today during Brian Roberts (CEO of Comcast) Keynote, he announced a new "Open-Cable" platform, under the new platform call Tru2way, which enables cable service to be directly integrated into a variety of consumer electronic devices. Initial partners include Motorola, TiVo, Intel, Samsung Electronics, Microsoft, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Cisco Systems, and Sun Microsystems.

When a consumer purchases a device with Tru2way, the user can bring it home, plug it in, and get all interactive cable services available from a traditional set-top box.

"It’s a totally different business model," Roberts said. "Virtually the entire cable industry will support Tru2way by the end of this year." By that …