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Windows 2000 may be complete
News Microsoft could finish work on its long-awaited Windows 2000 operating system as early as Wednesday, wrapping up a long and painful development project that also represents Microsoft's best hope of dominating Internet computing.
[December 15, 1999, 12:22]
LindowsOS - What to expect
News Although the Linux operating system has been around for 10 years now, its complexity and inability to run many popular applications have kept it from gaining a foothold in the mainstream PC market. Although LindowsOS has yet to be released, the...
[April 4, 2002, 13:11]
Gartner: Ignore Vista until 2008
Talkback No programmer should ever be let near the design of an operating system. This is why linux will never be a serious desktop operating system the above people dont work for free instead you get geek ware, written by geeks for geeks (who think a...
[November 13, 2005, 11:08]
Not a myth
Talkback Not sure the cloud operating system is a myth. Actually it would be more accurate to describe the cloud operating system as an ambition or a goal. With a functional, reliable cloud (which includes a reliable, standards-based cloud operating system...
[September 11, 2009, 15:24]
Next OS will focus on wireless, says Palm
News The next version of the Palm operating system for handhelds will be available to licensees at the end of the year, according to a PalmSource executive. During a morning keynote speech at the company's developers conference in San Mateo, California...
[May 7, 2003, 10:15]
Gates takes a side-swipe at Apple, Linux security
Talkback First Off, Lets agree that no operating system nowadays is safe from hackers, viruses trojans, worms and the rest of 'em but Windows operating systems seem to be the worst affected, maybe the fact that ports are intentionally left-open doen't help...
[January 28, 2004, 10:30]
Compaq iPaq plunges into Inferno
News Inferno, an operating system originally developed by Bell Labs for devices such as set top boxes and telephones, has been ported to Compaq's iPaq handheld computer. The port of the operating system -- which can also be run as an application on...
[June 28, 2001, 12:47]
Vista clears antitrust hurdle
News Microsoft's soon-to-be-released Windows Vista operating system does not appear to raise antitrust concerns, federal and state prosecutors said on Tuesday in a court filing. According to the report, Microsoft and the technical committee have been...
[November 22, 2006, 8:02]
Users split over naked PCs
News A European thinktank's recent recommendation that computers should be sold without an operating system — so-called "naked PCs" — in order to tackle Microsoft's dominant position and foster competition in the operating-system marketplace has got...
[October 1, 2007, 17:42]
Linux fuels game console plus
News And they decided that the keys to accomplishing this mission would be open source software, open APIs, and the Linux operating system. Reading further, I was informed that the Indrema entertainment system would be a "revolutionary product built on...
[July 7, 2000, 16:49]
Microsoft bulks up Windows XP Embedded
News Windows XP Embedded with Service Pack 1 resolves glitches discovered since Microsoft released the operating system last year and also adds new features to the product. The software is a modular version of Microsoft's flagship operating system that...
[October 23, 2002, 10:10]
Microsoft gives in-car speech a tune-up
News Microsoft is keeping its eye on the road with its Windows CE operating system, having released its latest speech software for use with Windows CE for Automotive 3.5, Microsoft's operating system for in-car use.
[April 23, 2002, 8:45]
Q&A: Palm OS chief puts Apple experience to work
News As chief executive of Palm's operating system unit, David Nagel faces many of the same challenges he grappled with at Apple: modernising an operating system, switching to a new chip architecture, and trying to compete with Microsoft.
[February 5, 2002, 11:26]
Microsoft polishing .Net Server software
News The clock is ticking for Windows .Net Server 2003, an operating system that is used to run high-end computers that manage everything from checking passwords to keeping track of a corporate payroll. Hardware companies such as Dell and IBM have begun...
[October 8, 2002, 13:05]
Expert: Windows can be broken into parts
News The first of two expert witnesses testified in federal court on Tuesday that so-called middleware can be safely removed from Microsoft's Windows operating system. It is my opinion that this remedy provision is technically feasible, based in part on...
[April 11, 2002, 7:31]
Motorola’s Symbian 3G phone: a first look review
Reviews Motorola has announced its first 3G phone to be powered by the Symbian operating system. The Symbian operating system offers features such as handwriting recognition, email support, calendar and contact management.
[September 1, 2003, 8:10]
Apple sets date for unleashing Panther
News Apple Computer said on Wednesday that its Mac OS X version 10.3 operating system, dubbed Panther, will become available later this month. Apple first said in June that the operating system would go on sale for $129 (£77.70) by year's end.
[October 9, 2003, 12:00]
Palm readies new consumer handheld
News As Microsoft readies the next version of its operating system for handhelds and portable devices, Palm Computing appears to be readying a new PDA (personal digital assistant) for the back-to-school shopping season.
[August 14, 2001, 16:01]
Panther: A £99 security update?
News Apple Computer's latest version of its Mac OS X operating system, Panther, patches security flaws that affect previous versions of the operating system, leaving security experts wondering if users will have to pay the £99 upgrade fee to be secure.
[October 30, 2003, 8:15]
Microsoft Windows Vista: An Inflection Point for Kernel Security and 64-Bit Computing
White Papers Unbounded changes to the operating system "Kernel" can lead to system instability as well as the complete compromise of all software programs and hardware resources on a system. Consequently, the operating system kernel environment needs to be the...
[December 9, 2006, 0:00]
