Tag: Operating system
iPhone web usage goes up 58% in a month
There’s no disputing that iPhone 3G’s been popular. Figures just released by Net Applications – a web service company – indicate that usage of the web functions of the device has more than doubled since the 3G model was released…
Big-screened HTC "G1" could be first Android phone, exclusively on T-Mobile in the US
Building on speculation a couple of weeks ago, it seems that an Android mobile phone could be on sale in the States as soon as October, if rumours based on people with inside knowledge of Google and HTC are to be believed.
In a flurry of naming creativity, HTC is expected to launch its G1 mobile phone, sporting a decent five-by-three inch touchscreen, real slide-out QWERTY keyboard, three megapixel camera, 3G, and of course the Android operating system…
The honeymoon is over: Intel snubs Microsoft's Windows Vista as XP sales are officially ended
Although chip-maker Intel has been totally BFF with Microsoft for like years and years, their relationship now seems to be on very rocky ground. An anonymous insider from Intel revealed last week that the company has decided not to upgrade the computers for its 80,000 strong work force to Windows Vista. Not ever.
Next Windows operating system to use multi-touch technology
Speaking at the opening night of Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital” conference in Southern California yesterday, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and fellow exec Steve Ballmer had a few things to share about the next step for the Windows platform. They were restrained when quizzed about the faults in the current OS, Vista, but acknowledged that in hindsight something could have been done better…
Microsoft scrambles to counter the rise of OpenSource Linux on ULPCs
It seems that Asus’ Eee PC masterstroke took more than rival laptop manufacturers by surprise. Microsoft has been caught off guard by the sudden popularity of the cheap, diminutive devices and doesn’t like the fact that OpenSource Linux Operating Systems are benefiting the most from it…
Windows XP Service Pack 3 arrives, brings surprisingly little misery
Windows XP’s latest service pack, SP3, is just a few hours old but the already the complaints are flying Microsoft’s way. Reported problems range from being simply unable to install the thing properly to being unable to boot up once you have, and any number of smaller issues in between.
Windows 7 arriving "sometime in the next year" says Gates, "The hell it is" says the rest of Microsoft
A slightly off-hand comment from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates managed to set the blogosphere alight with a wave of excited speculation over the weekend. Answering a question about Vista, Gates told the audience at the annual meeting in Miami of the Inter-American Development Bank on Friday:
“Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version [of Windows].”…
Microsoft claim Surface could be in homes by 2011
Microsoft is claiming to be able to push out a consumer version of its coffee table-cum-PC, Surface, within the next three years, lopping a couple of years off their original forecast of 2013. VP of Specialised Devices and Applicatiobs at MS, Tom Gibbons, told Fortune magazine:
“In the three-year time window, we absolutely see how to get there. If we can beat that, we’ll try to beat that.”
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 released, may break some stuff
Microsoft has announced that the first Service Pack — funnily enough called SP1 — is now available for all versions of the latest Windows Vista operating system.
Unfortunately, the company says that the update could well break a number of pieces of software, which is unfortunate given that quite a few bits of software stopped working properly (or at all) in the transition from XP to Vista…
Windows 7 coming in 2010… probably
According to reports, Microsoft has confirmed that its next version of Windows will be available in 2010.
Windows 7 will succeed Windows Vista, with Microsoft explaining that it had always scheduled its next operating system launch for three years after Vista was launched to consumers. That was January last year…
