Articles on Operating Systems

Should Microsoft buy Palm? - Aug 3, 2009

Crave In a recent MarketWatch article on Microsoft's struggling Zune portable media player, reporter John Letzing got an interesting quote from George Kurian, a vice president at Tradition Capital Management LLC, which ... Read story »

Upcoming Mac OS X gets a little friendlier with Windows - May 12, 2009

Crave Unless you fork out for third-party virtualization software like Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion, you'll quickly find a disadvantages of using the free Mac OS X Boot Camp. And that is ... Read story »

Why Chrome OS? Google says, why not? - Jul 13, 2009

Features Apparently, organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful will require a new operating system.  Read story »

Analyzing Google's Chrome OS strategy - Jul 13, 2009

Features We tell you why Google is developing an operating system of its own for use in low-cost Netbooks.  Read story »

Prizefight: Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard - Oct 26, 2009

Features It's not often that the two most popular operating systems get major updates at nearly the same time, so we couldn't resist throwing them into a cage match together.  Read story »

Smartphones with 3.5mm audio jacks - Oct 15, 2009

Features Good news for music lovers: The standard headphone socket is making a comeback in smartphones. Read story »

Top 10 phones of October - Nov 20, 2009

Features The iPhone drops out of the chart, but we expect it to make a comeback. Read story »

First phone to come with Google Android 2.0 arrives - Oct 29, 2009

Crave Initial response to the new Motorola Droid smartphone on the Verizon Wireless network have been very good, thanks in large part to the updated Android 2.0 operating system. The new updated ... Read story »

An Android SmartQ 5 MID - Sep 1, 2009

Crave When we reviewed the original SmartQ 5 MID, the excitement of handling what was one of the cheapest MIDs in the market was hampered by a sucky operating system that ... Read story »

Android-powered Aspire One spotted - Oct 14, 2009

Crave Though Google's Android operating system has its roots as a smartphone platform, the Netbook market has been eagerly awaiting its appearance in minilaptops. Why? Though mainstream consumers will most likely stay ... Read story »

Psystar looking for trouble in all the right places - Oct 26, 2009

Crave Perhaps Psystar's sensing that the end is near for its Mac clones, but the Miami rebel is not going to go silently into the night. It created a stir back in ... Read story »

Windows Marketplace now available to WM6.0/6.1 users - Nov 17, 2009

Crave When Microsoft launched its mobile app store last month, Windows Marketplace for Mobile was only available for Windows phones running operating system 6.5. Although highly anticipated among users, the execution of ... Read story »

Windows 7 usage is growing quickly - Nov 3, 2009

Crave Microsoft appears to be getting relatively strong early adoption of Windows 7 in the 10 days since its official launch. According to Net Applications, more than 3 percent of PCs accessing ... Read story »

Windows 7 default user account control worries experts - Oct 23, 2009

Crave Corporate IT departments should be pleased with new security measures in Windows 7, but consumers are still at risk of getting hit by malware despite changes in the User Account Control ... Read story »

Nvidia makes a strong showing at Computex - Jun 2, 2009

Crave A Tegra-based Netbook prototype. With its major competitor in the graphics arena swallowed up by AMD, Nvidia had to do something drastic before it got edged out of the market. ... Read story »

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