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Google announces Chrome operating system

Google on Tuesday announced the creation of the Google Chrome Operating System project, with the goal to build a Linux-based OS available for purchase on netbooks in the second half of 2010. The search giant said in a blog post that most of the user ...

From CHRIS DUCKETT, ZDNet UK,  8 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Hosted virtualisation suites: a group test

A lot of the activity in virtualisation is focused around the datacentre. That's all well and good, but there's a whole world of virtualisation for workstations, where competition for the best suite is red-hot and constantly improving. Previously we ...

From CHRIS DUCKETT, ZDNet UK,  22 Jun 2009

New Zealand cancels Microsoft talks

The New Zealand State Services Commission announced on Tuesday that it had been unable to reach an agreement with Microsoft for a new whole-of-government contract. "It became apparent during discussions that a formal agreement with Microsoft is no ...

From CHRIS DUCKETT, ZDNet UK,  27 May 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Photos: A first look inside Microsoft Exchange

Sixty-five per cent of businesses worldwide use Microsoft's Exchange and the software giant announced the latest version last week. The set-up splash screen (above) shows the two big dependencies of Exchange 2010; the .NET Framework 3.5 and PowerShell ...

From CHRIS DUCKETT, Silicon.com,  21 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Exchange 2010 beta: screenshots

Microsoft's updated mobile OS brings a handful of enhancements, including an application store, a backup and restore service, and an improved mobile web browser Version 2.0 of Google's Chrome browser is now available in pre-beta form. Check out some of ...

From CHRIS DUCKETT, ZDNet UK,  20 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.,  European Commission

Is it Windows 7 or KDE 4?

great work boys. i would have loved to see their reactions once you told them it was actually KDE... You did tell them, right? yeah, i'd like to see that part. "by the way, this isn't windows, and it won't run any of your sh*t" "oh, well i won't be ...

From CHRIS DUCKETT AND ALEX SERPO, LXer,  6 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Joe the Plumber

Hackers run Linux on iPhone

A new front has opened in the ongoing arms race between Apple and iPhone hackers, with one hacker group making the iPhone boot with a Linux 2.6 kernel. Although a bootloader, kernel and a BusyBox terminal can be loaded, many features of the iPhone ...

From CHRIS DUCKETT, ZDNet UK,  1 Dec 2008
Related Topics: David Pogue

Drizzle project to trim down MySQL

Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a project to create a trimmed-down, faster version of the database system aimed at web-based applications and cloud components. Drizzle will have a micro-kernel architecture, with code ...

From CHRIS DUCKETT, ZDNet UK,  24 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Oracle

Sun: We screwed up on open source

Many open-source developers remain sceptical as regards Sun, because their memories of the company focus on its interactions with the community in 2001-02. Sun's chief open-source officer, Simon Phipps, now concedes that was a period in which Sun ...

From CHRIS DUCKETT, ZDNet UK,  24 Jun 2008

Future operating systems to remain as Windows and Linux

Gernot Heiser, professor of operating systems at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has stated that Windows and Linux will remain as the future of desktop and server operating systems. In an interview at the recent Linux.conf.au in Melbourne, ...

From CHRIS DUCKETT AND LANA KOVACEVIC, LXer,  4 Apr 2008

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