Texas Memory Systems has launched the RamSan-20 SSD, at 450 GB, based on single-level cell (SLC) NAND type flash memory. It’s expected to be available in the second quarter of this year.

PROPHIX Software and Paradigm Analytics have announced a partnership allowing Paradigm Analytics to offer Corporate Performance Management (CPM) capabilities to its PerformancePoint Server and ERP customers.

Adobe has issued a critical update plugging a zero-day vulnerability in Acrobat Reader being actively exploited by attackers. This first patch is for Adobe Reader 9.1 and Acrobat 9.1. Updates for versions 7 and 8 are expected next week.

The patches are out, and the one to apply first is MS09-006, which stops improper validation of input passed from user mode through the kernel component of GDI (Graphics Device Interface). Similar bugs were patched three times over the last year.

Using two desktop units, a 2.2GHz and a 2.4GHz, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes of ZDNet puts the 3 operating systems through 31 tests and tallies the results.

There are some differences between Linux and Windows. Preston Gralla had trouble converting to Linux his first round. Then he got some help and things began to make sense.

Will Microsoft go with WebKit or will their "Gazelle" leap forward? So far, Microsoft isn’t saying, but many are speculating.

Offering discounts of up to 26 percent, Microsoft is trying to tempt recession-hit companies into maintaining costly service contracts.

Microsoft’s business model has hit a bump that may cost it Iceland. Not a major hit you say? On the other hand, losing a whole country might indicate a bad business model. This writer uses raw language to make his point.

Here at OutlookPower, we like to keep up with our favorite OutlookPower authors’ progress and changes in technology. Lon Orenstein, author of Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager For Dummies, and an all-around cool dude, blogs about his experience in winning the SuperCool Award at the Microsoft CRM Incubation Week event.

This turns out to be a rather long article with a short video at the end, but it’s a really great story and well worth the read. We wish Lon luck taking the results of that amazing week and changing the world for the rest of us.

For a thought-provoking article about reformatting the hard drive of his Small Business Server and moving into the cloud, read the other article called Living Business Online.