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No Microsoft OS since Windows 3.1 had shipped without minesweeper
DailyTech
That's not just a song lyric, it's the sound known and loved by billions of
PC users worldwide. With estimates of the total number of users of
Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Windows operating system at be well over one
billion people, it's astonishing to ...
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Developers asked to focus on AirPlay, AirPort & Graphics in first OS X
10.8.3 beta
Apple Insider
Apple on Monday supplied developers with its first pre-release beta of OS X
10.8.3, a forthcoming security and maintenance update for its Mountain Lion
operating system. People familiar with the beta software indicated to
AppleInsider that it is ...
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Apollo Plus: Is this Microsoft's first Windows Phone 8 update?
ZDNet
VPN support is an interesting one, given Microsoft officials said in June
of this year that Microsoft had decided against including VPN functionality
in the Windows Phone operating system (even though it had been included in
Windows Phone OS ...
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Jolla, a Mobile Phone OS Called Sailfish, Created by Former Nokia Employees
Z6Mag
Nokia produced a single phone that ran the operating system named MeeGo.
The lone N9 phone was still fairly popular outside the US. Nokia abandoned
the MeeGo project in 2011 after the company went in favor of Microsoft's
Windows Phone. Nokia's N9 ...
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Google Android 4.2 Jelly Bean Mobile OS Review
TweakTown
I didn't bother touching Google's first foray into the mobile operating
system (OS) world until Android 2.x with the HTC Desire. The first few
iterations of Android were released during a time when I was still
hypnotized with the first iPhone, and ...
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Jolla SailFish smartphone OS shown off in videos
TrustedReviews
SailFish is heavily based on Nokia's MeeGo OS, an open source platform that
was abandoned by the Finnish company when it decided to concentrate on
creating Windows mobile phones. Jolla, also based in Finland, was started
by several ex-Nokia ...
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A Big Deal
Jamestown Post Journal (blog)
If you have an Intel Mac that came with OS X Tiger (10.4) or OS X Leopard
(10.5), then you should seriously consider buying OS X Snow Leopard (10.6).
Available now on the Apple Store web site, the Snow Leopard install DVD is
priced at only $19.99.
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Where were the bullet holes on OS/2's corpse? Its head ... or foot?
Register
Microsoft, which joined forces with IBM to craft OS/2, loved the idea of
moving upmarket; at this point it had almost no presence beyond the
desktop, and Bill Gates was entirely honest when he called Windows and DOS
"stepping stones to OS/2". He left ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 - Ten reasons to choose open source OS over Windows 8
Techworld.com
Microsoft's Windows 8 dominated countless headlines in the weeks leading up
to its launch late last month, but October saw the debut of another major
operating system as well. Canonical's Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal"
arrived a week ahead of its ...
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Chrome OS and Android: There can be only one | PandoDaily
By Nathaniel Mott
Android already powers much of Google's push into operating systems, with
Google describing it as "an open platform built for phones, tablets, and
televisions." (We'll let the "open" bit stand for a moment.) Imagine
explaining that Android ...
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