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- Who should be thanked for the return of Mr. Jobs to Apple?
- News of Singularity, a non-Windows operating system from Microsoft, sparked my interest in OSes past and present. It got me thumbing though the back issues of MacWEEK for memories of OSes that were built from scratch and now forgotten. But in the research, I found some ironic gold regarding NeXTstep,...
- Tags: Strategy, Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, MacWeek, Operating System, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., NeXTstep, Singularity OS, Operating Systems, Software, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- My Singularity wish list
- At home and in test/specialty labs in my school I'm running everything from flavors of *buntu and Mandrake Linux to OS X. However, most of my clients are running Windows, whether accessing Server 2003 via thin clients or as standalone XP and Vista machines. Sure, OS X is...
- Tags: Singularity OS, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Open Source, UNIX, Software, Emerging Technologies, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
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- Microsoft's Midori: Who's on the all-star roster?
- that's by no means a' who's who' listMore likely a 'who's he' list.These guys are no match for FOSS and Linux in particular.Rather than failing to reinvent the wheel, they should just adopt Linux and do themselves a service for doing the right thing.Before you make yourself look any more...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, NT-kernel, Microsoft Corp., Linux, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Unix
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- Helios: Another Microsoft operating system project to watch
- helios == hot air for PRJust move on people, M$ does not even expect to sell it.As the name suggests a gassy substance, I expect that M$ tried the 15 minutes worth of fame with it.RE: Helios: Another Microsoft operating system project to watchLinuxGeek:Microsoft didn't TRY to get any PR...
- Tags: Operating systems, Helios d.d., operating system, Microsoft Corp., NT-kernel, Singularity, public relations, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Microsoft ThinkWeeks a thing of the past?
- Microsoft ThinkWeeks a thing of the past?BillG is still BillG, so is MSFTi don't think billG has been involved any less than before. maybe a little less in details. but other people's decision only matter if it is not going different way with his.RE: Microsoft ThinkWeeks a thing of the...
- Tags: MSR, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft ThinkWeek, Billg
- Discussion threads 2009-02-12
- Towards a robotic society in 2020?
- Towards a robotic society in 2020?Any Asimov reader could spew this drivelWe are more than 10 years away from the positronic brain!How about a free Nestor Class 5?And I'll use it to help me cook sweetpotato pie!I could JUST SEE Mr. Data cooking in Will Smith's Grama's Kitchen... Well, at...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Flash memory, Desktops, Beat-It, Star Dreck, memory
- Discussion threads 2008-12-06
- News to know: Ubuntu; New Macbook; BlackBerry Storm; Google layoffs
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Are you sure you don't just want to use Ubuntu? Netbooks + Ubuntu: OS solid but... Robin...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Layoff, Apple MacBook, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Notebooks, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Windows 7, undigested red meat, and a delicate sensibility
- Windows 7, undigested red meat, and a delicate sensibilityI knew the cheap shot was somewhere in thereBut I had to wait until the very end to find it. Both systems had binary lock states. The Sun guys went with singularity and the Windows guys went with trinary lock states. However,...
- Tags: Operating systems, Know-nothings, Microsoft Windows, delicate sensibility, Microsoft Windows 7, red meat, sensibility, meat, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
- Non-Microsoft developers to get a peek at CHESS concurrency test tool
- More than a few big-name groups at Microsoft have been using Microsoft Research's CHESS testing tool, including the Midori distributed operating-system incubation team, the Singularity managed-code OS team, the Dryad distributed application-engine team and the Cosmos distributed-storage team. It sounds like non-Microsoft developers may get their hands on it some...
- Tags: Developer, Team, Tool, Team Management, Management, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., CHESS, Productivity
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- Windows 7 to get parallel-processing tweaks
- Windows 7 to get parallel-processing tweaksWindows 7It seems that Microsoft is playing it safe with Windows 7 by having minimum changes.Is WinFS still alive or do we have to consider it as a dead duck?Thanks RodIt's mostly the applications anywaysFrankly, it's mostly the applications that need to take advantage of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Windows Kernel, Craig, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, parallel-processing tweak, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Win32, tweak, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- When equivalence is the wrong question
- When equivalence is the wrong questionSo, replace one tool with many?Since Microsoft Word can be used for a varity of tasks, and Writer can not, therefore one must use writer and a varity of other tools to do the work of one program.And here you claim that open source is...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Databases, Microsoft Access, tool, Murph, Microsoft Office, database
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- More tech details emerge on Microsoft's 'Midori'
- More tech details emerge on Microsoft's 'Midori'Very nice!I am impressed with the idea of making GUI elements directly accessible from any thread within your application. An emphasis on .NET languages is also a significant plus. .NET is the future on the Microsoft platform! Developers who resist the migration do so...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Midori, tech detail, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- Might Microsoft's Midori be 'Cairo' revisited?
- Might Microsoft's Midori be 'Cairo' revisited?If it is object oriented -it would work like OS/2, the versions after Microsoft and IBM stopped working together.The Workplace Shell was the best environment I've ever worked on.Baseless speculation is fun but uselessToward that end I would recommend you look up the meaning of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Midori, Microsoft Corp., operating system, SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- MinWin: Is it or isn't it part of Windows 7?
- MinWin: Is it or isn't it part of Windows 7?re: MinWinI think the statement if accurate from "the anonymous Microsoft blogger claiming to be part of the team building Windows 7", is pretty clear and sounds like a reasonable explanation.I know, I know ........It's the next round of vapourware to...
- Tags: Operating systems, MinWin, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Reports of Windows' demise are greatly exaggerated
- I was planning to avoid posting about Gartner's "Windows will collapse under its own weight" presentation from earlier this week because I felt it was a bunch of hype that didn't provide any new insights or conclusions. But given how many others are riffing -- and riffing...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- Has Microsoft lost its way on desktop computing?
- Has Microsoft lost its way on desktop computing?No, seriouslyStrategies and visions are for those who need to get somewhere. Microsoft doesn't want to go somewhere with the desktop, they are [i]there[/i], now. They own the desktop, just as they own the browser and messaging spaces.The only effort required...
- Tags: Desktops, desktop, MSFT, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- Is it worth the effort to provide many operating systems to students?
- Is it worth the effort to provide many operating systems to students?AmenChris says:"This goes back to the point that has been raised repeatedly in this blog: teach the fundamentals of computing (whether from an end user or developer perspective, depending on the students) and it won't matter which OS (or...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, operating system, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- A quick comment on Singularity
- A quick comment on SingularityummmmI'm not really up on OS/400, but Singularity had some really interesting bits like thread groups that worked like a process without the need for a process.of course they say: "a shipping product is a feature" but at least my friends love singularity.
- Tags: Singularity
- Discussion threads 2008-03-08
- A quick comment on Singularity
- I've received a few emails over the last few days from people wanting to know whether I think that Microsoft's Singularity OS will eventually push Unix aside, first in academia and then in business. No. Singularity has an odd history...
- Tags: Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-03-08
- My Singularity wish list
- My Singularity wish listWindows only? What a concept!Not ready to believe in Windows as a benefactor. Linux is infinitely more flexible and unless Windows can match Linux's many flavors (and be given FREE!, of course), I don't believe Windows will remain the only contender in the ring. Sun also has...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Singularity
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
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