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    Latest Operating Systems Analysis & Insight

HP

HP PCs back on the menu with Dellish plans

HP will be sticking with its PSG group, as it casts its net far and wide. Can it manage?

8 Nov 2011

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Desktop Hardware/Analysis & Insight

 
Office

Thin clients aren’t the future – BYOD should be

Thin clients are really for special use cases, but BYOD is ripe for widescale deployment. Here's why...

27 Oct 2011

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Server/Analysis & Insight

 
Windows 8

The problems facing Windows 8

What does Windows 8 need to do to turn around the decline of Microsoft’s operating system? Simon Brew has been taking a look…

21 Oct 2011

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Desktop Software/Analysis & Insight

 
tablet computer

Desktop OS tablets vs Mobile OS tablets

The popularity of tablets has exploded in the past 12 months, but is this due to the introduction of operating system suitability?

31 Jan 2011

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Tablets/Analysis & Insight

 
open source

Haiku: Reason to believe

Richard Hillesley looks at whether Haiku will get the opportunity to move from a hobby to a viable open source alternative.

7 Jun 2010

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Operating Systems/Analysis & Insight

 

FreeBSD and the GPL

Linus Torvalds has said Linux wouldn't have happened if 386BSD had been around when he started up. We trace the history of FreeBSD and how it's affected the open source world.

18 Feb 2010

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Operating Systems/Analysis & Insight

 

Has Linux gained too much weight?

Linus Torvalds is unhappy with just how big Linux is getting. Is he onto something or is it just a load of hot air?

24 Sep 2009

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Desktop Software/Analysis & Insight

 

Will Mac OS ever be the business platform of choice?

Windows is apparently in decline, and Mac OS is growing. Does that mean that it’s primed for the business market?

9 Mar 2009

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Macs/Analysis & Insight

 

Where did Microsoft go wrong with Vista?

Vista faces a new challenge in Windows 7, but did Microsoft's many missteps ever really give its predecessor a fighting chance.

2 Feb 2009

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Desktop Software/Analysis & Insight

 

Web operating systems

Web-based operating systems have a long and rich history, but only now are we starting to see some emerging projects that could be commercially viable.

8 Oct 2007

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Networking/Analysis & Insight

 

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    Latest Operating Systems Reviews

Ubuntu 12.04 review

Rating: 5

Canonical has packed in a HUD-based interface, bundled open source software, and increased security/software support from three to five years. We find out if it's enough to tempt enterprise users to Ubuntu.

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