Operating Systems

This video describing how Linux works is like Schoolhouse Rock, but with penguins, and no singing.

Microsoft parodies a 1980s TV show to attack Google. Yeah, that'll work.

The Lumia devices are Nokia's first big push for phones running the Windows Phone operating system after the company announced a partnership with Microsoft in February.

At the company's BUILD conference in California, Microsoft teased Windows 8 and offered developers the option to download an early realsed of the OS.

Microsoft posted the first developer preview beta of Windows 8 late on Tuesday.

The ViewPad 10 Pro tablet PC from ViewSonic runs Android and Windows and can switch between the two at the tap of an icon.

It was only a matter of time until someone decided to put an OS on the Motorola Xoom that wasn't Android. Crafty geek Thomas Sohmers has ported Ubuntu over to the Motorola tablet and has even been kind enough to provide instructions on how to do it. While the actual Ubuntu OS is running in a sort of virtual machine, I don't expect it to be very long until someone completely replaces the Android OS with a full desktop one (like Windows, OSX, or Ubuntu).

If the company provides the computer, the company owns the computer and has the sole right to decide how the employee uses that computer and what software can be loaded. Locking down Windows-based systems stop a wide variety of security problems.

Computerworld plays Microsoft fanboy in “Opinion: 10 Best Features in Windows 7 for IT Professionals.” The Windows developer conference underway now will generate a tidal wave of “inside information” which is Microsoft PR speak for “vague promises” with little connection to reality.