OS

First Windows 10 Update, ‘Redstone’, Could Arrive in 2016

Redstone is a likely Windows 10 update and Microsoft has already entered planning stages, sources say

10 years ago

Acer Chromebase Is The World’s First Touch-Screen AIO Chrome PC

Launch follows several Acer Chromebooks partnerships in the past

10 years ago

Windows XP Usage Finally Starts Dropping, Again

After months of usage increase, XP takes a downward turn, with Windows 7 taking 2 percent rise

10 years ago

Microsoft Office Apps Migrate To Windows 10 Preview

New 'universal' Office apps no longer tied to a device, and will work across smartphones, tablets and desktops

10 years ago

Google Project Zero Reveals Mac OS Zero-Day Flaws

Google research team reveals three serious Mac OS flaws, after Apple fails to respond with fixes

10 years ago

Google Exposes Windows 8.1 Security Flaw

Google is criticised for publishing a flaw in in Windows 8.1 that could allow an attacker to give themselves admin…

10 years ago

Samsung Pledges Smart TVs To Tizen Platform

Electronics giant confirms the Tizen operating system will be the basis for all future smart televisions

10 years ago

Top 10 iPad Apps For Christmas

Fill your iPad with the best apps on the iOS App Store

10 years ago

Google To Extend Android Push Into The Car

The next frontier for Android operating system could see it fully embedded in the humble motor car

10 years ago

Android OS And iOS Targeted by Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

Spate of attacks install remote access Trojans to phish for login credentials, with jailbroken devices at particular risk

10 years ago

6 Simple Steps To Surviving Windows Server 2003 End-of-life

Peter Tsai, Spiceworks IT analyst, explains how IT departments can avoid migration misery in 2015

10 years ago

ARM Reveals Free OS For Internet Of Things

Life beyond smartphones as ARM seeks to capitalise on the growing Internet of Things sector

10 years ago

Microsoft Surprises With Windows 10 Preview

So what happened to Windows 9? Microsoft surprises many with jump straight to Windows 10

10 years ago

HP Grants OpenVMS New Lease Of Life

HP gives the mainframe-oriented operating system OpenVMS, a new lease of life

10 years ago

Microsoft Donates Historic Operating System Source Code

Microsoft donates the source code for two iconic products, namely early versions of MS-DOS and Word for Windows

11 years ago

China Launches ‘Independent’ OS For Smartphones, PCs

China OS is a Linux-based OS designed to break foreign dominance

11 years ago

Red Hat Signals Arrival Of Enterprise Linux 7 Beta

Red Hat delivers the beta of Enterprise Linux 7, which offers improved performance, storage and virtualisation

11 years ago

Microsoft Reveals Windows 8.1 Price And Upgrade Path

Microsoft has provided details about the retail pricing of its forthcoming Windows 8.1 operating system

11 years ago

Linux 3.11 For Workgroups Arrives With Added Lustre

The final release of Linux version 3.11 - codenamed Linux for Workgroups - is now out

11 years ago

Google Updates Chrome Operating System

Google has made a number of improvements to its Chrome OS after it issued a new update

11 years ago

Android ‘Is The Most Fragmented It Has Ever Been’

Open Signal says there are 11,868 different Android devices, presenting challenges and benefits to developers

11 years ago

Fedora Project Unleashes Schrödinger’s Cat

Fedora 19 features better developer tools and more GUI options, and switches from MySQL to MariaDB

11 years ago

Cumulus Targets Data Centre Networks With Linux OS

A startup is challenging Cisco with its Cumulus Linux operating system for data centre networks

12 years ago

Microsoft Ships Windows Embedded Compact 2013

Microsoft has released Windows Embedded Compact 2013, its operating system for small footprint industrial use

12 years ago

Chinese Government And Canonical Working On Bespoke OS

Chinese government looking to create a new OS for its people

12 years ago

Microsoft Fleshes Out Cloud OS Vision

Microsoft is offering a clearer insight into its Cloud OS vision after the release of new products and services

12 years ago

Windows 8 Market Share Sees Christmas Growth

Windows 8 picked up over Christmas, but is growing slower than Vista did after its launch

12 years ago

Microsoft Sells 40m Windows 8 Licences In First Month

Tami Reller says Windows 8 is outpacing Windows 7 in terms of upgrades

12 years ago

Windows 8 Malware Threats Arrive

Malware pushers start to put claims Windows 8 is Microsoft's most secure OS to the test

12 years ago

TechWeekEurope Readers Plan To Shun Windows 8

TechWeekEurope readers are not enamoured with Microsoft's new OS

12 years ago