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Can Microsoft juggle three operating systems?

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:56:13 +0000

Microsoft's tricky balancing act in 2009 will be to phase out Windows XP while boosting demand for Windows Vista and building anticipation for Windows 7. Compounding this challenge is that Vista has been Microsoft's most... Read more...

OpenOffice bug hits multiple operating systems

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:28:29 +0000

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,... Read more...

Global Hosted Operating System

Sun, 06 May 2007 18:12:42 +0000

G.ho.st (Global Hosted Operating System) is a free browser-based hosted alternative to desktop client systems like Microsoft's Windows and Apple's OS X. With Gh.o.st, all users need is an active Internet connection according to Zvi... Read more...

Microsoft: All operating systems should use Vista's UAC

Michael Stanclift — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:25:40 +0000

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... Read more...

Batteries Push Sony to Q2 Operating Loss

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:48:39 +0000

The global recall and replacement of millions of laptop batteries, and start-up costs for the PlayStation 3 console, pushed Sony's operations into the red for the July to September quarter, despite a jump in sales.... Read more...

Microsoft Previews Windows CE 6 Operating System

Tom Warren — Wed, 10 May 2006 15:35:26 +0000

Microsoft have announced the availability of a beta release of Windows® CE6, the next generation of its industry-leading, real-time software usedto build customized operating systems for devices such as InternetProtocol (IP) set-top-boxes, Global Positioning System... Read more...

Microsoft: Don't sell PCs without operating systems

Tom Warren — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:51:24 +0000

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,... Read more...

Microsoft Appoints New Chief Operating Officer

Fri, 05 Aug 2005 00:20:30 +0000

Microsoft has named Kevin Turner as their new Chief Operating Officer (COO) – a position which has remained vacant for a three year stretch. Turner, the former president and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of... Read more...

5 Features Operating Systems Should Have

Brad Wardell — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:07:10 +0000

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... Read more...

Opera 7.54u1: Security update for all Operating Systems

Sun, 12 Dec 2004 15:46:52 +0000

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... Read more...

Microsoft calls AMD X86-64 operating system Anvil

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 12:03:22 +0000

WE SAW versions of Microsoft's X86-64 operating system running on AMD chips at CeBIT in March, despite naysayers who wouldn't have it that such a creature existed. But now we have absolute confirmation that there... Read more...

IBM waves goodbye to OS/2 operating system

Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:57:57 +0000

If only they'd managed this properly - just think how different things would be today. "ALTHOUGH IBM'S OS/2 has certainly been low profile for the last 10 years or so, the company... Read more...

Next Microsoft operating system will be radical change from XP

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 30 Nov 2002 21:12:18 +0000

Thanks Toxicfume...Windows XP has been on the market for a year now, so naturally everyone is clamoring for details on the next version of the world's most popular operating system -- or so Microsoft Corp.... Read more...

Microsoft Windows XP Operating System: Usability Study

Steven Parker — Thu, 01 Nov 2001 09:54:12 +0000

Betanews has posted a 6 page study into the useability of Microsoft Windows XP, nice read! Below a Blurb: Bloomsburg University students were recruited for this research from communication classes. Student volunteers were... Read more...