How quickly will businesses adopt Vista?

According to a new poll, 86% of IT decision-makers surveyed said their companies plan to implement Vista, although only 20% plan to do so in the next year, reports CNET News.

The poll of 761 buyers, commissioned by online retailer CDW, found 51% of respondents would have to replace or upgrade their PCs in order to run Vista.

Rob Helm, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft, said most large businesses won't start looking at Vista until January or February, and will then spend a year or more planning their roll-outs.

The uSwitch Customer Satisfaction Report says "free" broadband deals have seen a downturn in customer satisfaction levels, reports the BBC News.

The survey of more than 11 000 customers found a 9% drop in broadband satisfaction levels. The report also says consumer trust in their Internet suppliers is at an "all time low".

The TalkTalk service run by Carphone Warehouse had one of the worst scores - 70% of people expressed satisfaction with its service, placing it joint bottom with Orange.

Sun Microsystems will offer programming language Java to the open source community, reports BBC News.

Rich Green, Sun's executive VP of software, said the company hoped to turn more developers into Java programmers.

"The open-sourcing of this really means more: more richness of offerings, more capability, more applications that consumers will get to use," he said.

Early results in the first comprehensive global survey of Internet censorship show Internet censorship is spreading and becoming more sophisticated across the planet, even as users develop savvier ways around it, reports Wired News.

Internet watchdog organisation OpenNet Initiative is compiling a year's worth of data gathered by nearly 50 cyberlaw, free-speech and network experts across as many countries, whose governments are known Internet filterers.

The study, which systematically tested if, when, how and by whom thousands of controversial Web sites are blocked in each nation, is expected to set a gold standard on Internet censorship when published.