If this wasn’t so sad, it would be funny. After Microsoft recently declared victory over Linux, it turns out that Microsoft appears is still trying to arrange it so that Linux won’t even boot on the next generation of PCs that come with Windows 8. Yeah, Linux isn’t on your enemy list anymore right Microsoft? [...]
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Microsoft tries to block Linux off Windows 8 PCs
September 21st, 2011 · Comments Off
Tags: Business · Desktop · Infrastructure · Laptop · Linux · Microsoft · Operating System · Windows
Thunderbolt: Beyond USB and eSATA
September 19th, 2011 · Comments Off
When I started in computing, we had two main peripheral interface choices: RS-232 serial and Centronics parallel ports. Neither was fast. RS-232, which was the more generally useful of the pair, topped out in early days at 20 kilobits per second (kbps). That was then. This is now. Today, USB 3.0 can hit 625 MegaBytes [...]
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Chromebooks Live!
August 31st, 2011 · 1 Comment
I’ll be the first to admit that while I like Chromebooks, I own a Samsung Series 5, Chromebooks also have serious problems. Still, the Chromebook is far from being dead. My fellow ZDNet writer, Scott Raymond argues that the consolidation of WebKit, and Chromium open-source Web browsers source code trees means the end of a [...]
Tags: Business · Google · Infrastructure · Internet · Laptop · Linux · Network · Network Services · Operating System · Tablet · Web browser · Web Services
Is XP finally dying or is it the PCs it’s been running on?
August 2nd, 2011 · Comments Off
At long, long last, Windows XP is no longer the number one, end-user operating system. It only took, Microsoft, what? Not quite two years to get desktop users off XP to Windows 7? Well, you could look at it that way, but you’d be wrong. The truth is that users haven’t been moving from XP [...]
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The top five Linux desktop vendors
July 29th, 2011 · Comments Off
It’s really not that hard to give Linux a try on a desktop or notebook. But, I get it. Not everyone is comfortable with burning operating system ISOs to a CD and then booting a computer from it. If that’s you, or a friend of yours, then consider just buying a PC or laptop that [...]
Tags: Desktop · Infrastructure · Laptop · Linux · Operating System