Microsoft promised we’d see the Windows 8 Consumer preview before the end of February, and they’re holding true to the word. The company has arranged a small event in Barcelona during Mobile World Congress to unveil the latest version of the upcoming OS on February 29, the very last day of the month (during a leap year, no less).
There are lot of hard jobs at Microsoft. Like the guy who collects Steve Ballmer’s dry cleaning. But Sam Moreau just might have the hardest gig in Redmond. Or at least the most harrowing. Over the past five years, he’s taken on the tiny task of redesigning the operating system used by like a billion people all over the world. You know, NBD. More »
Who would have guessed that Samsung’s Bada operating system would end up this way (hint: everybody). The Korean company has announced that it will be merging its entry-level smartphone platform with the Intel-backed Tizen operating system. More »
I love The Restart Page. It faithfully reproduces the restart and shutdown sequences of most GUI-based operating systems since the times of the original Macintosh system. See if you can identify them all. It’s really perfect, sound included. More »
The geekiest of the operating systems is branching out into entertainment. Ubuntu TV is the open-source answer to your living room setup, and you could have a TV running the software by the end of the year. More »
TheNextWeb has sources at Microsoft telling them that the Windows 8 public beta will arrive in February of next year, though little is known about what new features might be included. More »
With Windows 8, Microsoft is re-imagining the most basic premises of personal computers. CEO Steve Ballmer recognises the drastic changes coming in Windows 8, even calling the platform one of the biggest risks taken by the industry giant. The UI changes and fundamental paradigm shifts that Windows 8 brings to the table are making a lot of power users eager to give the platform a trial run, even in its current state as a Developer Preview. More »
Hang on.. what? Did I type that headline correctly? OK, it seems I did. Technology moves at a rapid pace, but the law is a slow, lumbering tortoise of a thing. How slow, I hear you ask? Microsoft’s still in court regarding Windows 95. More »
If you’ve read our guide to building a Hackintosh you know that installing Mac OS X Lion requires a bit of work. You have install Snow Leopard, then go through a fairly tedious upgrade process rather than just installing from scratch. Fortunately, thanks to a new utility called UniBeast (from tonymacx86, of course), that’s no longer a problem. More »
