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Lindows Pulls Out Of IPO
News Linux software maker Lindows postponed its public offering this week, citing "current adverse market conditions". Earlier this month, Lindows cut its planned offering price for the second time. Originally, Lindows had set a range of $9 to $11 for...
[August 19, 2004, 14:30]
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]
Lindows To Bundle Netscape Browser
News Lindows, the maker of a consumer-friendly version of the Linux operating system, announced on Tuesday it will bundle Netscape's Web browsing and communication technology into its software. Lindows, which is being touted as a low-cost alternative to...
[September 24, 2002, 13:49]
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. The company, which makes a consumer-friendly version of Linux, said that it had "fielded some questions" about...
[May 29, 2003, 14:44]
Lindows Looks For New Name
Talkback Lindows is unknown to the general public in Europe so fighting for that name is a waste of money. It's about time that silly litigation is cut short. They also should drop the name in the states instead of wasting money on legal fees : the brand is...
[April 8, 2004, 17:19]
Lindows Looks For New Name
Talkback I LIKE Lindows and hope they win. GO for IT LINDOWS OR WHATEVER YOU WILL CALL YOURSELF. I love the way you can run from the CD ROM AND THUS CUT OUT ALL VIRUS INCLUDING BIG BROTHER. PERSONALLY I LIKE LINDOS.
[April 9, 2004, 1:22]
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]
Lindows PCs Play DVDs
News Lindows.com, which makes a consumer-oriented version of the Linux operating system, introduced on Tuesday an application that allows computers running the Lindows OS to play commercial DVDs. Lindows OS is based on Linux, an open-source variation of...
[July 29, 2003, 15:29]
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]
Lindows Unites Linux And Windows
News Lindows.com, a 20-person San Diego company led by former MP3.com chief executive Michael Robertson, plans to sell a preview edition of the software for $99 this quarter, with version 1.0 coming in early 2002.
[October 24, 2001, 10:49]
Lindows Opens Subscriber Information To Microsoft
News In the latest twist in Microsoft's trademark lawsuit against Lindows, the Linux start-up has been compelled to hand over all of the personal information it has collected on users of its Web site, according to Lindows.
[January 15, 2002, 16:32]
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. Under the MSfreePC promotion launched on Tuesday, Lindows will process the claims for anyone who...
[September 18, 2003, 8:40]
Lindows To Sell Cut-price Linux Via P2P
Talkback "Most content companies view P2P as evil, but there are phenomenal commercial applications," Michael Robertson, Lindows' chief executive, said in a statement. We started using P2P as a promotion tool, and now we're taking the next step and...
[March 7, 2004, 21:19]
Lindows Cuts Offering Price Again
News Linux seller Lindows has trimmed its planned stock price for the second time in two weeks, meaning that the company's market debut could generate less than half the payout originally anticipated. In an amended registration statement filed on...
[August 13, 2004, 9:40]
Lindows Takes Cash To Change Name
News Microsoft will pay upstart Linux seller Lindows $20m (£10.7m) to settle a long-running trademark dispute, according to a regulatory document filed on Monday. In exchange for the payment, Lindows -- which recently renamed most of its products...
[July 20, 2004, 8:50]
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. The San Diego, California, software maker's new Lindows Mobile PC will sell for $799, or about £490.
[February 20, 2003, 15:05]
Lindows Fights Back Against Microsoft
News Lindows, a start-up developing software that would let many Windows programs run on Linux computers, has released legal papers designed to head off Microsoft's efforts to thwart the product. In December, Microsoft asked a federal judge to bar the...
[February 18, 2002, 10:51]
Lindows Looks For New Name
News Embattled Linux seller Lindows will adopt a separate name for operations outside the US, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday. In a statement posted on the Lindows Web site on Tuesday, company founder Michael Robertson said ongoing...
[April 8, 2004, 13:00]
Lindows To Sell Cut-price Linux Via P2P
Talkback Perhaps before they go mainstream, Lindows should actually learn to offer some support, thouroughly document installation procedures and give a complete accounting- OEM-by_OEM, which hardware works, and doesn't work with its friggin system.
[March 9, 2004, 4:54]
Lindows Offers A Software Sampler
News Lindows, the start-up that is promising to merge the worlds of Windows and Linux to create an alternative to the Microsoft empire, has released a preview version of its controversial software, and it has some Linux users and analysts scratching...
[February 5, 2002, 14:54]
