Tag archive: Operating Systems

Late last year, Ubuntu announced it would bring the open source operating system to mobile devices. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth said Ubuntu will soon be found on “tablets, phones, TVs and smart screens from the car to the office kitchen, and it will connect those devices cleanly and seamlessly to the desktop, the server and the cloud.” Much debate has followed Ubunto’s mobile strategy, the general consensus being that its loyal followers… Read More

Rumor has it that the recently announced Tizen smartphone OS may be picking up quite a bit of support. DigiTimes reports that Acer and Asus are both planning to develop hardware using Tizen, which is scheduled to launch in early 2012. HTC, for it's part, is still on the fence, but hasn't ruled out supporting the fledgling platform. Tizen is a new smartphone operating system that has replaced MeeGo, likely because Samsung is… Read More

Some months ago, Nokia backed out of supporting MeeGo, its big partnership with Intel to create an open source smartphone operating system (based on Intel processing architecture, of course). Things looked bleak for MeeGo, even after Nokia released its lone MeeGo device, the N9. Today, the MeeGo project has been canceled, according to its blog. From its ashes, however, a new smartphone OS is rising: Tizen, a new collaboration between Intel and… Read More

Microsoft is in an uncomfortable position with Windows 8. On the one hand it has Windows 7, which has just breached 450 million units in sales. It's the software maker's most successful OS in more than a decade, and may end up being its biggest ever. On the other hand, executives see the writing on the wall and continue to watch new operating systems like Chrome, Android, iOS, and OS X (Lion) creep up on PC sales. It won't be… Read More

While arguably one of the best smartphone manufacturers in the market, and certainly one of the most successful, HTC has been taking flak from all sides, and by flak we mean its been getting sued by Apple and strong-armed into patent deals with Microsoft. These attacks stem from its use of Google's open source Android operating system. Though the OS has helped propel HTC to the top, these attacks threaten to greatly hurt the… Read More

It's time to pour something out and revel in some misty eyed nostalgia, because Windows XP is officially on the way out. According to Web statistics company Net Applications, XP finished July with less than half of the operating system market share for the first time since Net Applications began tracking OS usage.  Windows XP lost 1.3 percent of the market during July, ending with 49.8 percent in total. Which, when you think about it, is… Read More

Nokia may have left MeeGo out in the rain, but LG could be the one to bring it an umbrella. LG is said to be in talks to adopt MeeGo, an open source platform, on some or all of its smartphones, reports Reuters. ZTE and China Mobile may also be developing handsets based on the fledgling, still unfinished operating system. Though Nokia and Intel began the MeeGo project together, the Finnish phone maker's departure may actually benefit the… Read More

Hewlett-Packard's chief executive officer Leo Apotheker announced that WebOS will be on every PC that HP ships in 2012.  A move to attract more developers and push the operating system from mobile devices onto desktops. Apotheker made the announcement during a presentation to HP's staff in India, according to a report by Bloomberg. HP acquired WebOS last year following its purchase of Palm for $1.2 billion. Apotheker said that WebOS… Read More

Microsoft is perhaps the most dominant company in the history of computing. It has ruled the PC world for two decades, cementing its Windows operating system as the only game in town outside of the minute marketshare of Apple and indie rumblings of Linux. However, the computing world is at an apex; things are beginning to change in big ways. Windows governs the PC world, but we're fast entering a post-PC era.

If you were holding out to see how a tablet version of Windows would stack up against Apple's iOS and Google's Android, you'll be waiting a long while. A new report from Bloomberg citing “people with knowledge of the plans” indicates that Microsoft has set the “back-to-school season” of 2012 as its targeted release time for a tablet-friendly Windows operating system. That means Microsoft will certainly… Read More

Microsoft Corp. put a new edition of Windows on sale Thursday, hoping for a fresh start after a bad reception for the previous version of the software that runs most of the world's personal computers. Windows 7 is now available on new computers, and as a software upgrade for some older PCs. A Fry's Electronics store in Renton, Wash., several miles south of Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, opened at midnight to give… Read More

The launch of Windows 7 draws near. Discs are being minted, glossy advertisements are filling magazines, and Microsoft is dispensing ludicrous advice on how to plan your own launch party. For existing Windows Vista users, we highly recommend upgrading to Windows 7, but the question remains: which version should you shell out for when it finally shows up on store shelves? Without a one-size-fits-all box, you'll need to decide which… Read More

Talk about a reversal of fortune: According to leading technology experts, Microsoft is looking less like the dismally-clad actor seen in Apple’s “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” commercials, and more like a suited-up Christian Bale from the new Batman movies as of late. Thank the release of its seemingly well-chiseled new operating system (OS), Windows 7, set to debut October 22, which experts insist will please PC diehards with its overall refinements,… Read More