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Twitter Updates for 2009-09-02
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This is bad. Had signed up short term for a service to stimulate more Twitter followers. Now my Twit [...]
Google’s Biggest Direct Assault on Microsoft: Open Source Desktop OS Based on Chrome
Thursday, July 9, 2009 7:12 No CommentsGoogle (NSDQ: GOOG) has officially announced it. And they are open sourcing it, as I suspected below: “Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the [...]
Will Windows 7 Be Bad News for Apple?
Monday, January 19, 2009 15:07 No CommentsListen to this article
As of December, Apple’s Mac OS X commanded 9.63 percent of the OS market, according to Net Applications, while Microsoft still led the way, accounting for more than 88 percent of the operating-system market.
But the real story behind those figures is Apple’s meteoric rise in the market. Just one year prior, in [...]
Semantic Sense for the Desktop
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:43 No CommentsListen to this article
A project brings Semantic Web technology to personal documents.
Credit: Technology Review
People naturally group information by topic and remember relationships between important things, like a person and the company where she works. But enabling computers to grasp these same concepts has been the subject of long-standing research. Recently, this has focused on the [...]
Teacher Confiscates Linux Discs, Claims There is No Free Software
Friday, December 12, 2008 13:06 No CommentsListen to this article
Let us just say that we hate IM-speak and Webby abbreviations, but being that this is a family-friendly publication, a simple “WTF” will have to suffice for our reaction on this one.
Our minds are really blown by this:
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Mac Hits Record Market Share
Monday, December 3, 2007 17:37 No CommentsAfter taking a brief October dip in advance of Leopard’s release, Apple’s (AAPL) share of the operating system market grew 3.34% in November to hit a record 6.81%, according to the results of a Net Applications survey issued today.
Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows in its various flavors continues to dominate with a 92.42% share, as measured by [...]
The State of Linux
Friday, October 5, 2007 13:35 No CommentsThe New York Times is taking a look at the state of Linux.
Linux has always had a reputation of being difficult to install and daunting to use. Most of the popular Windows and Macintosh programs cannot be used on it, and hand-holding, not that you get that much of it with Windows, is rare. But [...]
Seven Reasons Microsoft Loves Open Source
Thursday, April 26, 2007 13:20 No CommentsNext week I’m leading the “Open Source, the Web, Interoperability, and Microsoft†panel at Mix07 in Vegas, my first Microsoft conference. Naturally, I’ve been pondering the topic so I don’t end up on stage with my pants around my ankles. The more I think about it, the more I think Microsoft loves open source—and [...]
Ubuntu’s New Linux Has Debugging Tool
Thursday, April 12, 2007 16:07 No CommentsWith its upcoming “Feisty Fawn” version of Ubuntu Linux due April 19, Canonical hopes to shed light on what happens when things go wrong.
Feisty Fawn, also known as version 7.04, comes with software that can send debugging information to help programmers track down the problems that cause applications to crash, Canonical Chief Executive Mark Shuttleworth [...]
Migrating to the Mac Infrastructure
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:26 No CommentsSwitching to a Mac infrastructure may sound like an expensive proposition for a small-business owner. However, some businesses who have made the change say they made the right choice. The cost savings on security and ease-of-use quickly paid off incurred expenses, they said. Relearning some tasks that operate differently on a Mac may be a [...]