All the stories tagged with os
Google Chrome OS, Beyond The Hype
07/08/2009, By Hubert Nguyen and Eliane Fiolet You’re probably blind if you have not seen the news that Google is launching Google Chrome OS next year. The product will be based on Linux (what else?) and will focus on speed, simplicity [...]
Windows 7 Family Pack Available Soon
07/06/2009, A modern day corporate ninja has found out that there is a leaked version of the Window 7 licensing agreement which points toward a Family Pack, capable of using a single license across a trio of computers within the same [...]
Windows 7 Pre-Orders Are Sold Out
06/29/2009, It seems that heavily discounted Windows 7 upgrades that went up for pre-order on Friday in Japan are now sold-out, amounting to a grand total of 30,000 copies – pretty impressive! We do know that 17 retailers were involved in [...]
Windows 7 Packaging Revealed
06/24/2009, Microsoft has let us take a look at the upcoming Windows 7 packaging which is in tune with the way the big M approaches their product, resulting in a simple clean design that is easy to open, while reducing waste [...]
Sugar On A Stick OS
06/24/2009, The open-source Sugar Learning Platform is a Linux-based operating system that was specially developed for the OLPC project, and good news to curious folks who have wondered what it was all about – it is currently available on a 1GB [...]
Windows 7 Marked For October 22nd Release
06/02/2009, Microsoft has officially announced October 22nd to be the day where Windows 7 will be launched. Are you happy to see such a close release date? If that’s the case, might we suggest those who are still using Windows XP [...]
Acer To Launch First Android Netbook
06/02/2009, Acer has set its sights on being the first company to roll out Google Android-powered netbooks by this year, something which should worry Microsoft as their dominance in the netbook market could be threatened as high Android sales would eat [...]
Intel Releases Moblin V2 for (OS for Netbooks/Nettop)
05/19/2009, Intel just announced the release of Moblin V2, an open-source linux-based operating system optimized for Atom-based computers. According to Intel, improvements include faster boot time (<10sec), smaller memory footprint, longer battery life and a new user interface with a homepage [...]
Intel and Nokia Back oFono, An Open-Source Telephony Solution
05/12/2009, oFono is an open source architecture and implementation for GSM/3G mobile telephony. The goal is to get the community to participate in a complete software stack that anyone could subsequently use as long as they abide by the GPL licensing [...]
Windows 7 Definitely Coming in 2009
05/11/2009, Microsoft has now publicly committed to launching Windows 7 in 2009 “in time for the holiday season”. The company just released the following statement: Microsoft Corp. announced that the company is anticipating that the next version of its client operating [...]
Windows 7 Predicted To Do Better Than Vista
05/06/2009, Now this isn’t really a prediction, as chances are Windows 7 will definitely do much better than Windows Vista did in the business sector within a 2-year period after Windows 7 is launched – at least that’s what the folks [...]
