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Organizations hoping to streamline their deployments of Linux got two new options this week for running the open source OS remotely. In the new version of its VDI (Virtual Desk Infrastructure) software, Oracle has included the ability to run various Linux distributions on thin-client devices. And Novell has announced that Amazon will start offering cloud-based [...]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer promised a sports arena filled with Microsoft partners that, within months, a number of Windows-based tablets would be hitting the market, and that the company is urgently working to bring its Windows 7 smartphone OS to market. With his usual energetic physical expressiveness, Ballmer kicked off the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference [...]