In conjunction with several of their other top-of-the-line software application upgrades, discreet have released the long-awaited combustion 3. Unique in some of its features and price point, combustion seems to have been searching for its market-place slot. Sharing the code, tools and quality of its bigger siblings, flame, inferno and smoke, combustion has, in the last two years, pulled its price down from 10 thousand dollars to around two thousand.

Developers get their hands on latest web offerings.

Developers get their hands on latest web offerings.

It was touted as the next big thing from Microsoft. But is Microsoft’s storage strategy in tatters?

As futuristic technology concepts go, 3D screens have been right up there with the teleporter as an aspirational idea that could change the way we see the world, yet the idea still resides in the realm of the science fiction.

Complete development suite

Preview of the developer suite

The Internet is booming again, but this time it’s very different. PC Authority brings you up to speed with the global Web 2.0 phenomenon.

The arrival of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 (ES2K3) is a significant event in the history of this product. First, it brings to a close the second era of the codebase. Released back in 1996 on the NT 4 wave, ES4 (there was no 1, 2 or 3) brought enterprise-level email, contact management, diary management and so forth to the Windows Server platform in a new and comprehensive BackOffice application.

Useful new features and a total interface overhaul make this the best Office ever.

Useful new features and a total interface overhaul make this the best Office ever.

It's only 1 client license, but if you want to play with Windows Server 2008, here's a relatively cheap way of doing it.

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