Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky dropped some knowledge today with the factoid that Windows 8 has had a ridiculous amount of testing, with over a billion hours of pre-release tests from users. More...
This week's Trivia Tuesday takes a look at operating systems; what they are, how they work, and their history, from their unlikely origins at General Motors to the source code of Windows. More...
The French open source company is battling with time to find a way out its financial crisis. The latest news is that Mandriva has enough funds to go on until mid-May. More...
An operating system allegedly created by members of the faceless hacktivist group Anonymous has prompted security warnings and concerns, with main group members distancing themselves from it. More...
Microsoft is sticking to their guns. At a Tuesday morning shareholder meeting, Steve Ballmer said that we're not in the post PC era - we're in the Windows era, with one OS behind every device. More...
Security experts have discovered vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org that could allow attackers to remotely execute code on Linux, Windows or Apple Mac-based computers. OpenOffice version 2.0.4 and earlier versions are vulnerable to maliciously crafted TIFF files,... More...
Microsoft Australia has defended the company's User Account Control (UAC) system as being "misunderstood" and said it should be the type of technology that all operating systems aspire towards. "There has been a lot of... More...
According to ZDNet UK Microsoft UK is urging UK vendors not to ship PCs without operating systems on them. Supplying base systems or "Naked PCs" is a missed opportunity according to Michala Alexander,... More...
In the early 90s, operating systems were getting pretty innovative and exciting. In a brief span of years we went from DOS and Windows 3.1 to having a myriad of operating systems that offered pre-emptive... More...
Thanks to Rapier for posting in our Back Page News, Opera has made available the fix for the desktop version Opera 7.54 for all OSes in response to the following security advisories, some of which... More...