Microsoft's tricky balancing act in 2009 will be to phase out Windows XP while boosting demand for Windows Vista and building anticipation for Windows 7. Compounding this challenge is that Vista has been Microsoft's most...
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Security experts have discovered vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org that could allow attackers to remotely execute code on Linux, Windows or Apple Mac-based computers. OpenOffice version 2.0.4 and earlier versions are vulnerable to maliciously crafted TIFF files,...
G.ho.st (Global Hosted Operating System) is a free browser-based hosted alternative to desktop client systems like Microsoft's Windows and Apple's OS X. With Gh.o.st, all users need is an active Internet connection according to Zvi...
Microsoft Australia has defended the company's User Account Control (UAC) system as being "misunderstood" and said it should be the type of technology that all operating systems aspire towards. "There has been a lot of...
The global recall and replacement of millions of laptop batteries, and start-up costs for the PlayStation 3 console, pushed Sony's operations into the red for the July to September quarter, despite a jump in sales....
Microsoft have announced the availability of a beta release of Windows® CE6, the next generation of its industry-leading, real-time software usedto build customized operating systems for devices such as InternetProtocol (IP) set-top-boxes, Global Positioning System...
According to ZDNet UK Microsoft UK is urging UK vendors not to ship PCs without operating systems on them. Supplying base systems or "Naked PCs" is a missed opportunity according to Michala Alexander,...
Microsoft has named Kevin Turner as their new Chief Operating Officer (COO) – a position which has remained vacant for a three year stretch. Turner, the former president and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of...
In the early 90s, operating systems were getting pretty innovative and exciting. In a brief span of years we went from DOS and Windows 3.1 to having a myriad of operating systems that offered pre-emptive...
Thanks to Rapier for posting in our Back Page News, Opera has made available the fix for the desktop version Opera 7.54 for all OSes in response to the following security advisories, some of which...
WE SAW versions of Microsoft's X86-64 operating system running on AMD chips at CeBIT in March, despite naysayers who wouldn't have it that such a creature existed. But now we have absolute confirmation that there...
If only they'd managed this properly - just think how different things would be today. "ALTHOUGH IBM'S OS/2 has certainly been low profile for the last 10 years or so, the company...
Thanks Toxicfume...Windows XP has been on the market for a year now, so naturally everyone is clamoring for details on the next version of the world's most popular operating system -- or so Microsoft Corp....
Betanews has posted a 6 page study into the useability of Microsoft Windows XP, nice read! Below a Blurb: Bloomsburg University students were recruited for this research from communication classes. Student volunteers were...
Windows 11 24H2 KB5046740 is out with a ton of new features for jump lists, taskbar, more
As Windows 10 approaches end of life, Microsoft targets more users with full-screen ads
Microsoft's free Bing Wallpaper app for Windows is borderline malware
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