IT SECTOR

In the first days of the new year, as in the past few weeks last year, IT-community of Russia and the CIS countries are actively discussing the short and medium term regional software market. However, even more so than many on the market, but the entire software industry in the post-Soviet space. Interestingly, the various participants in the debate are sometimes to the opposite conclusions. In 2007, the Russian market run software grew by 35%. According to experts, the turnover on the Russian market run in 2007 - m amounted to $ 3.7 billion turnover of Russian companies in the world - $ 1.7 billion in 2008 on the Russian market has already risen to five billion dollars. To obtain similar figures for the entire CIS, it is enough to increase the performance of the Russian one and a half times. The structure is sound boxed software sales in 2008, according to the study of association of independent software developers ISDEF, is as follows: 65% sales fall to corporate clients, 20% - in th...

In Russia in the near future may be legislation, which is tighten the fight against software piracy . And especially do not fall under attack by pirates, and users of counterfeit software and content, including involuntary users, acting without any malice. Plenum of the Supreme and Supreme Arbitration courts of the Russian Federation prepared a draft decree, which clarifies which entered into force on 1 January 2008 Article 1250 Civil Code ( «protection of intellectual property rights»). The article states that the absence of fault does not absolve the offender of the need to end the use of Audio, and does not preclude the application of the sanctions. Thus, in the near future the Russian users of pirated software, as well as owners and customers house networks and videohostingov can begin to fine for violation of intellectual property rights. And even if they did not know (and could not know) that the use of Audio. Previously, the law-enforcement and judicial authorities acted in anot...

The main instrument of computerized office work are the various programs, editors. It is in spreadsheets, accounting applications, text editors, graphic or tools created working papers and projects. It is no coincidence that it is reviewed and guidelines for working with such a «serious» software filled pages of periodicals of computer topics. This is indeed true and justified. However, it is worth remembering that for a really good work with a computer is no less important, and small auxiliary tools to simplify and automate fulfillment of routine operations. This is different schedulers, auto switches the keyboard layout and other such programs to facilitate our everyday work at the computer. The hero of our review program GridMove also solves a seemingly insignificant at first glance the problem - sort of windows of other applications, but makes it so easy and with such elegance that literally after a few hours of work with this product ponevole catch myself thinking: and as previous...