Operating System Archive

As someone who has been working in IT in one way or another for most of my life, I have had the chance to see firsthand just how much the concept of an operating system has evolved over the last 30-plus years. Today’s operating systems barely even

R3 is developing a blockchain-platformed operating system called Corda. A 100-plus member consortium of banks, regulators and technology partners are developing Corda and are led by blockchain tech start-up R3 CEV. Corda is an open source blockchain project, designed for business from the start. Only Corda allows you to build

Chinatown Bureau’s Paul Miser and Marie Berry Credit: Chinatown Bureau A pair of WPP expats have their way, agencies and marketers of the future will use an “operating system” that’s as integral to the creative process as Snow Leopard is to a MacBook Pro. Paul Miser and Marie Berry,

The latest data from NetMarketShare shows that Windows 7 remains comfortably ahead of Windows 10 on desktop PCs. Its March 2018 statistics also showed that iOS 11.2 and Android 7.0 are the most popular mobile operating systems, with 20.93% and 20.41% market share respectively. Android 8.0 has also gained

Fuchsia a totally new operating system, currently in the very early stages of development at Google. How does it differ from Android and Chrome, and might it replace either one? Let’s break it down. What Is This Thing? Fuchsia first popped up on the tech world’s radar

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and YOKNEAM, Israel, March 8, 2018 — Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced the release of Mellanox Onyx – the industry-leading open and flexible Ethernet Network Operating System for

Microsoft has confirmed plans to convert Windows 10 S from a dedicated operating system into an optional mode for all existing versions of Windows 10. The new Windows 10 S mode will roll out as part of the next Windows 10 update and will be a free

Photo: Chronicle Screenshot, Microsoft Every version of Windows 10 will soon get a streamlined “S” mode. Less than a year after introducing Microsoft Windows 10 S, a lightweight version of Microsoft’s operating system marketed to students and businesses, the company is now folding the separate systems’s main

With “near-religious” fervour, mobile phone industry players gathered this week at their annual trade fair in Barcelona are vaunting their positive impact on the world even if they are also timidly starting to address fears over the dark side of new technology. While not new, the idea

When nation-state adversaries frolic and gambol across your corporate network, playing hide-and-go-seek, sysadmins become central points of compromise. Savvy attackers know that if they can own sysadmins, they can own the network. “I hunt sysadmins,” an NSA operator brags in a slide leaked by Edward Snowden. Regardless