MS won`t outsource Longhorn

Software giant Microsoft says it will not outsource any of the development for its future operating system, Longhorn.

According to The Inquirer, Microsoft has doubled its number of workers in India to 2 000, of which only 900 are actual MS employees, while the rest are contract workers. However, the company says that only the testing of its next-generation software will be carried out in India, and possibly the development of a few tools.

However, core Windows development work will be carried out by Microsoft workers in America, the company says.

IBM has introduced a chip that can adjust its own functionality and perform trade-offs between performance and power consumption without human intervention, Digital Silence reports.

According to IBM, the patented eFUSE technology will be able to detect when a chip is in need of a 'tune up`, and will alter the configuration and efficiency of the circuitry to enhance performance or avoid any potential problems.

The technology works by combining software algorithms and microscopic electrical fuses to produce chips that can regulate and adapt their own actions in response to changing conditions and system demands.

IBM says the eFUSE technology is expected to change the way chips are manufactured and integrated.

Unisys is offering Linux from Red Hat and Novell on its multiprocessor servers, ZDNet reports.

The long time Microsoft partner did offer Linux on its ES7000 servers last year, but said it was only because certain customers had a purchasing requirement to support the open source operating system.

The new move indicates the company will push the open source product more fervently, says Unisys COO Joe McGrath.

The company, which has partnered with Microsoft in promoting its 32-processor ES7000 servers, says Linux is not positioned as an alternative to Windows but rather to Unix running on proprietary chips from Sun Microsystems, IBM, Silicon Graphics and Hewlett-Packard.