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LindowsOS 4.0

...and problem-free. If you're using Windows on the same PC, LindowsOS 4.0 handily mounts FAT and NTFS hard drives automatically, so you... Read more

27 August, 2003 by Neil Randall

LindowsOS - What to expect

...com and founder and former CEO of MP3.com, is hoping the LindowsOS will be the breakthrough product that will finally bring Linux into homes... Read more

4 April, 2002 by Brien M Posey

LindowsOS licences herald cheaper PCs

...launched its Builder programme, which offers system builders technical support, testing tools, LindowsOS Certification eligibility and a software library for $500 (£350) per month. The... Read more

25 June, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Ruling questions Windows trademark

...Linux-based operating system -- which will run popular Windows-based programs -- as LindowsOS. In a strongly worded preliminary ruling handed down late on Friday in... Read more

18 March, 2002 by Matt Loney

Lindows ventures into Internet telephony

...meshed with Internet telephony technology created by company chief executive Michael Robertson. LindowsOS 4.5 comes with Session Initiation Protocol, or SIP, technology that allows... Read more

17 December, 2003 by Dinesh C Sharma

Microsoft loses latest round in Windows trademark battle

...with their windows trademark now being put at risk and on trial. LindowsOS is due to go on sale later this year for about $100... Read more

16 May, 2002 by Matt Loney

Stepping up to a giant

After Vivendi Universal bought his digital music company, MP3.com, for $350m two years ago, Michael Robertson could have retired and never looked back. Instead, the outspoken entrepreneur decided upon a second career that offered a tad more adventure: he decided to take on Microsoft Read more

6 August, 2003 by David Becker

LindowsOS 2.0

Lindows truly is a viable consumer alternative to Windows or Mac OS -- especially if you're on a budget. Read more

5 November, 2002 by Steven J.Vaughan Nichols

Linux shoot-out: Red Hat 8.0 v SuSE 8.1

...have changed. We examine the two most user-friendly Linux distributions after LindowsOS -- Red Hat and SuSE Read more

9 December, 2002 by Neil Randall

Xandros to return Freespire to Debian roots

...in the tumultuous history of Freespire, which began as the Debian-based LindowsOS in August 2001. Lindows went through several business plans and name changes... Read more

8 August, 2008 by Matthew Broersma

Lindows to sell cut-price Linux via P2P

...The company said on Thursday that it is set to distribute its LindowsOS through P2P networks for $25 (£13.72), half the normal price, from... Read more

5 March, 2004 by Dinesh C Sharma

Lindows unwires Centrino support

...around a Windows software module. Lindows added the Centrino support to its LindowsOS Laptop Edition software and said it expects laptop computers preloaded with the... Read more

20 February, 2004 by Matt Hines

Lindows shares OS for free

...in bandwidth charges to deliver software used to create installation CDs for LindowsOS. "By allowing people to download LindowsLive from P2P networks instead from our... Read more

30 January, 2004 by James Pearce

Lindows PCs play DVDs

...Lindows OS to play commercial DVDs. The San Diego-based company said LindowsOS 4.0 can automatically detect and launch the DVD player application. In... Read more

29 July, 2003 by Sandeep Junnarkar

Lindows reawakens network computer

...com is attempting to resurrect the lifeless network computer. Lindows, which distributes LindowsOS -- a consumer-oriented version of the Linux operating system -- launched on Tuesday... Read more

23 July, 2003 by John G.Spooner

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