XP still top OS, but Windows 7 hot on its trail
CNET (blog)
by Lance Whitney January 3, 2012 6:27 AM PST Follow @lancewhit Windows XP is still the dominant OS worldwide after more than 10 years, but Windows 7 continues to narrow the gap. XP ended last year with a 46 percent slice of the OS market, according to ...
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Defending an Operating System
Computerworld (blog)
iOS and Android have raised the bar in terms of the operating system defending itself from applications. Unless Windows does so too, it will be viewed as a stick shift car by a world migrating to automatic transmissions. And that's being kind. ...
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McAfee Identifies Threats for Windows 8 in 2012
ASP Free
Packed with predictions on trends in the realms of hacking, spam, mobile threats, and more, the report touched on issues that could plague Microsoft's highly anticipated future release of the Windows 8 operating system. Despite the fact that Windows 8 ...
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Ruggedization required for mobile devices on the network
Defense Systems
The tactical apps could also run within a secure, cyber-protected operating system when needed." “There would also be a military-based app ecosystem, like in the commercial world, where a military user could securely download whatever application is ...
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Google's Cloud Robotics Strategy -- and How It Could Soon Threaten Jobs
Huffington Post
Google has developed an open source (free) operating system for robots, with the unsurprising name "ROS" -- or Robot Operating System. In other words, Google is trying to create the MS-DOS (or MS Windows) of robotics. With ROS, software developers will ...
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War of the cloud services: iCloud vs. Google, Do.com vs. Microsoft Sharepoint
ITworld.com
Some would suggest that the real point of contention is at the operating system level with iOS vs. Android. There is a good set of arguments for this, but recent innovations suggest that the real differential between these two families of devices isn't ...
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