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Lindows.com launches Linux notebook
News Lindows.com on Thursday unwrapped an inexpensive and lightweight notebook PC based on its version of the Linux operating system. Lindows.com, Via and Wal-Mart have given rise to a new class of $200 desktop PCs, which have proved appealing to people...
[February 20, 2003, 15:05]
Microsoft 'reaches agreement' in Lindows.com battle
News Microsoft's battle with Lindows.com may be over. According to reports on Monday afternoon, Microsoft has agreed to pay Lindows.com $20m -- $15m by August 15th this year and $5m by the start of February 2005.
[July 19, 2004, 17:45]
Microsoft 'reaches agreement' in Lindows.com battle
Talkback Who ownes Name "PC" or "Word"
[July 22, 2004, 20:53]
Microsoft 'reaches agreement' in Lindows.com battle
Talkback You don't really own words. More that their use is associated to your business / organisation / software / idea. PC, being an acronym for Personal Computer, is pretty much public domain - used in New Scientest in 1964 so predating just about...
[July 26, 2004, 17:07]
Lindows holds firm over contested Web site
News Linux seller Lindows.com said Tuesday that it will continue to help Californians process legal claims against Microsoft, despite a challenge by the software giant. An attorney representing Microsoft sent Lindows a cease-and-desist letter late last...
[October 1, 2003, 11:30]
Lindows keeps quiet as SCO battle rages
News Lindows.com on Thursday sought to distance itself from the legal tumult that SCO Group has set in motion over the Linux operating system. Until more facts are presented, Lindows.com will not take a position as to the validity of the claims...
[May 29, 2003, 14:44]
Lindows reawakens network computer
News Lindows.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 a $169 (£105) desktop machine.
[July 23, 2003, 8:15]
AOL keeps Lindows at arm's length
News AOL Time Warner has distanced itself from a deal announced last week which will see its Netscape 7.0 browser installed as the default Web software in the Lindows.com operating system, calling the announcement "misleading".
[October 2, 2002, 15:12]
Lindows turns to business market
News Lindows.com, best known for its consumer-oriented version of the Linux operating system, launched on Thursday a low-cost computer for retail sites, government agencies, corporations and schools. The $169 (£107) BusinessStation system can be turned...
[August 29, 2003, 11:50]
Court delays Microsoft vs Lindows trial
News The court case between Microsoft and desktop Linux-maker Lindows.com, over Microsoft's ownership of the word 'windows', has been delayed for at least another three months. The jury trial, which was supposed to get under way earlier this year, was...
[November 25, 2003, 14:30]
Stepping up to a giant
News In 2001, Robertson started Lindows.com, a software start-up with the goal of turning the open-source Linux operating system into a genuine mass-market consumer item and a serious threat to the dominance of Microsoft's Windows operating system.
[August 6, 2003, 11:40]
Microsoft knocks legality of Lindows' claim site
News Microsoft has demanded that Lindows.com take down a Web site that offers to process customer claims from the settlement of a California class-action suit against the software giant. In a letter sent to the software seller on Friday and reprinted in...
[September 30, 2003, 10:00]
Linux community upset by desktop deals
Talkback Lindows.com has publicly said that this is GOOD news for Linux on the Desktop. Here is what their CEO, Michael Robertson, had to say about all of this: http://www.lindows.com/lindows_michaelsminutes_archives.php?
[November 6, 2003, 21:22]
Lindows offers free PCs to antitrust victims
News Linux software seller Lindows.com is looking to capitalise on Microsoft's antitrust woes with a new programme that promises free PCs and software. Robertson, who first drew attention as founder of digital music company MP3.com, has emerged as a...
[September 18, 2003, 8:40]
Lindows unwires Centrino support
News Desktop Linux software maker Lindows.com released on Thursday a version of its operating system that features support for Intel's Centrino chips for wireless notebooks. Lindows added the Centrino support to its LindowsOS Laptop Edition software and...
[February 20, 2004, 10:50]
Lindows to AOL: surely some mistake
News Lindows.com, which sells an operating system designed to compete with Windows in the consumer PC market, is sticking by its original announcement of an "AOL computer", despite AOL Time Warner's claim that the way the deal was described was...
[October 4, 2002, 11:17]
LindowsOS licences herald cheaper PCs
News Linux software developer Lindows.com has said it will offer system builders a flat-rate licensing plan for its operating system, in contrast to the per-unit fees charged by Microsoft and other software companies.
[June 25, 2002, 13:46]
Lindows 3.0 coming next month
News Lindows.com has fixed a date for the "General Release" of its operating system software, promising that Lindows 3.0 will be available from mid-November. Lindows, which aims to directly challenge Microsoft's Windows on consumer PCs, is already on...
[October 24, 2002, 16:06]
Lindows faces a reality check
News Lindows.com, the operating system maker, is being forced to re-evaluate its strategy to lure the average consumer away from Windows. A spokeswoman for Lindows.com confirmed that while some Windows applications will run on LindowsOS, this...
[August 21, 2002, 16:32]
Latest Lindows preview adds Click-N-Run software
News Lindows.com this week released a second "Sneak Preview" of its Linux-based operating system, adding features for streamlining the process for installing new software and for viewing and printing non-Linux file formats.
[April 10, 2002, 12:27]
