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macOS Sierra Now Available As A Free Update

Sep 30, 2016

Siri Comes to Mac with All-New Capabilities for the Desktop macOS Sierra brings Siri to the Mac. Cupertino, California — Apple today announced that macOS Sierra, the latest major release of the world's most advanced desktop ...

Tags: Siri, Mac, Desktop, free update

How to Get Android Apps and Games on Chrome OS

Jun 20, 2016

At Google's big developer conference, I/O 2016, the company announced Android apps would be coming to its desktop operating system Chrome OS. There has been talk of Android/Chrome OS integration for some time and now the first stage in ...

Tags: Google, Chromebook

Windows 8.1's Monthly Usage Is Steadily on The Rise

Dec 1, 2014

According to new figures released by web tracking company Net Applications, Windows 8.1’s monthly usage is steadily on the rise. While the operating system boasted less than seven per cent of web traffic in September, that increased ...

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Microsoft

Steve Ballmer's Audacious Vision Will Not Be Achieved Without Digital Bloodshed

Nov 27, 2013

Steve Ballmer’s audacious vision of “One Microsoft, all the time,” delivering a single, seamless user experience across a wide range of devices, will not be achieved without digital bloodshed. Windows will die, a ...

Tags: Larson-Green, Microsoft, Windows, platform

Steve Ballmer Has Used What Will Likely Be His Last Meeting with Wall Street Analysts

Sep 20, 2013

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has used what will likely be his last meeting with Wall Street analysts to defend his tenure at the helm of the software giant. Ballmer, who recently announced he'll be stepping down in the next year, openly ...

Tags: Computer Products, Microsoft

Valve Will Unveil More Details About Its Proposed Linux-Based "Steam Box" Console

Sep 18, 2013

Valve, the company behind Steam, the popular PC games platform, will unveil more details about its proposed Linux-based "Steam box" console next week. The news was revealed by founder Gabe Newell at LinuxCon 2013 this week in a keynote ...

Tags: Steam Box, Industrial Equipment, Components

Microsoft Filed a Patent Application for Browsing Through Open Windows on The Desktop

Apr 22, 2013

Microsoft last week filed a patent application for a new method of browsing through open windows on the desktop that builds on an older, now-abandoned feature in Windows Vista and Windows 7. The application, which was published April 11 ...

Tags: Microsoft, Windows Viewer

Microsoft's Two-Pronged Push Into The Tablet Market

Mar 14, 2013

Microsoft‘s two-pronged push into the tablet market, consisting of the Windows RT and Windows 8 operating systems, confuses customers, an IDC analyst said on Wednesday. The company should instead focus on the more robust Windows 8 ...

Tags: Microsoft, surface, tablet market

Don Melton Noted The 10th-Year Anniversary of The Browser

Jan 10, 2013

Ten years ago Monday, Apple co-founder and then-CEO Steve Jobs introduced Apple's first, and so far only, browser for OS X, according to the former head of the Safari team. Don Melton, who retired last year as Apple's director of ...

Tags: Apple, OS X, browser, MacWorld

The First Stable Version of Qubes OS Was Released Monday by ITL

Dec 31, 2012

The first stable version of Qubes OS,an open source desktop operating system designed to provide a greater level of security by isolating programs inside virtual machines with different permissions,was released Monday by Polish security ...

Tags: Qubes OS 1.0, virtual machines, better security

Apple Has Consistently Been Able to Get a Significant Portion of Its Mac Customers

Dec 28, 2012

Unlike rival Microsoft, Apple has consistently been able to get a significant portion of its Mac customers to quickly upgrade to the newest version of OS X, data from a Web measurement company showed. The last three versions of Apple's ...

Tags: Microsoft, Apple, significant portion, Mac customers, OS X

Ubuntu Linux May Be All Over The News Recently

Dec 26, 2012

Ubuntu Linux may be all over the news recently, but anyone who's ever perused DistroWatch has a pretty good sense of just how many other Linux distributions are out there as well, ready to be tried at will. Next month, however, that list ...

Tags: Ubuntu Linux, DistroWatch, Linux distributions, next month

Fans of Linux May Recall The "31 Flavors of Fun" Project

Dec 26, 2012

PC World - Fans of Linux may recall the "31 Flavors of Fun" project I wrote about last month through which ambitious developer Todd Robinson planned to "create, and release, a complete desktop operating system each and every day for the ...

Tags: "31 Flavors of Fun"project, Linux, desktop operating system

Companies Can Save Tens of Thousands of Dollars in Support and Development Costs

Dec 21, 2012

A Microsoft-commissioned report published last week said companies can save tens of thousands of dollars in support and development costs by standardizing on one browser. Although the report, conducted by Forrester Research and paid for ...

Tags: Computer Products, Microsoft Bankrolled, Report

Phones Will Have to Wait Until The New Year for The Long-Promised Version 7.8 Updates

Dec 21, 2012

Users of Windows Phone 7-based phones will have to wait until the new year for the long-promised version 7.8 updates to the obsolete operating system. The update is intended to improve customisation and mimic the features and functions of ...

Tags: Windows Phone, Phone, Consumer Electronics, Windows Phone 7.8

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