Operating Systems

Review: Fedora 13 Beta

by Mike Mansell May 8, 2010

As you may already know, the pre-release (beta) version of the Fedora Linux distribution was released two days ago. This release comes just more than a week after Canonical released the 10.04 version of their wildly successful Linux distribution, Ubuntu. Because of this, I was curious to see what aspects of Fedora 13 would be [...]

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RIM (Informally) Announces BlackBerry OS 6

by Mike Mansell April 28, 2010

Mike Lazaridis, the co-chief executive of Research In Motion, the company that makes the BlackBerry smart-phone line and the BlackBerry OS has informal announced today that they plan on releasing the 6.0 version of their BlackBerry OS software in the fall of this year. This information comes shortly after Apple announced the release of the [...]

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Microsoft Announces Windows Phone 7 Series

by Jeff Weisbein February 15, 2010

Microsoft unveiled their latest new product at the Mobile World Congress – what is it you ask? Windows Phone 7 Series. Not in love with the name? Yeah me either, but this is a completely revamped mobile operating system and phone by Microsoft. They are setting standards as to what Windows Phone should be running [...]

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Chrome OS: I’m Disappointed.

by Jeff Weisbein November 21, 2009

Google held the Chrome OS event this past Thursday and I’ll admit I was excited. Excited to see what Google would bring to the table and how game changing it would be. However, while my excitement is there (mainly due to the inner geek still wanting to try it), I’m a little disappointed with what [...]

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Google Chrome OS – It’s Coming!

by Jeff Weisbein November 17, 2009

Google is planning on holding a special Chrome OS event at its headquarters in Mountain View, CA this coming Thursday. At the event, Google is going to give some technical background information as well as show off some demos. However, most notably, they are supposedly giving a complete overview of the new OS, which they [...]

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Microsoft Launches Its Own D-Day. Windows 7 Released.

by Jeff Weisbein October 22, 2009

Today, Microsoft is releasing Windows 7. The successor to infamous Windows Vista. Now in a valiant attempt to not have a repeat of Windows Vista, Microsoft has been playing it smart. This time around the software giant has been working closely with resellers such as Best Buy as well as computer manufacturers to make sure [...]

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5 Awesome Windows 7 Features You Might Have Missed

by Jeff Weisbein September 4, 2009

Windows 7 is coming out in October and with all the hype surrounding Microsoft’s new operating system there might be some features which you missed in passing. Here are 5 new Windows 7 features which are pretty awesome and all (except one) are available in all versions of Windows 7. Feature 1: HomeGroup HomeGroup is [...]

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Will Google Have Anti-Trust Issues In The EU?

by Jeff Weisbein August 2, 2009

Today, I was thinking about the on-going Microsoft anti-trust issues in the European Union. The very same issues which led Microsoft to originally announce they would be selling a separate version of Windows 7 called Windows 7 E which would not have the Internet Explorer browser pre-installed (by default). However, that plan has changed according [...]

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Pre-Order Snow Leopard On Amazon

by Jeff Weisbein August 1, 2009

It appears Amazon is now allowing customers to pre-order Snow Leopard from their site. Snow Leopard is the latest Apple operating system which will be out in September. Snow Leopard is a cheap upgrade for all Leopard users costing only $29. Amazon is also accepting pre-orders for the family pack of Snow Leopard which allows [...]

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Google Introduces Chrome OS

by Jeff Weisbein July 8, 2009

It’s official. What many people have been waiting so anxiously for has been announced. The Google operating system, which will be known as Google Chrome OS has been introduced on the official Google blog. The operating system which will be based on Linux is going to initially be offered for netbooks and then move its [...]

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