Operating System Archive

Today concludes the five ‘Go’ matches played by AlphaGo, an AI system built by DeepMind and South Korean champion, Lee Sedol. AlphaGo managed to win the series of games 4-1. ‘Go’ is a strategy-led board game in which two players aim to gather and surround the most

While most of us are sound asleep on June 30, our computers and GPS systems will insert an extra second into our lives. It doesn’t seem like much, but a single second that was not planned for is enough to cause some interesting problems for computer systems.

Not long ago, Microsoft ended support for one of the most widely used operating systems in history, Windows XP. Now, Microsoft has ended support for a product that impacted the server world almost as much as Windows XP impacted the PC world, Windows Server 2003. Windows Server

Microsoft’s free upgrade offer for Windows 10 expired on July 29. Windows 10 Home currently costs $120, Windows 10 Pro costs $200 and upgrading from Windows 10 Home to Pro costs $100. Enterprise customers pay by volume pricing. Back in January of 2015, Microsoft’s Terry Myerson revealed

Blue is so last build of Windows 10 Insider Preview. As part of build 14997, Insiders will now get a green screen of death. The change in color will reportedly roll out to all users next year. The change may be for Microsoft techs, more than just for

Yesterday, we reported that NetMarketShare’s latest market share report showed a decline in Windows 10 market share, while Windows 7 saw an increase. Today, Valve have released their latest Steam Hardware & Software survey, which shows overall usage of desktop operating systems on its Steam gaming platform,

Welcome back to our weekly Windows 10 Mobile news recap series, where we go over the top stories of the past week in the world of Microsoft’s mobile operating system. Let’s get started. The HP Elite x3 hits the Microsoft Store The HP Elite x3 has been

NetMarketShare, a globally recognised and trusted technology statistics company, has released its statistics of browser and operating system share for September 2016. Looking at the latest share report, it is definitely interesting, with at least a couple surprise changes. Mobile Market Share September 2016 In September, Windows

Nutanix launched version 4.0 of its operating system (NOS) this week. This updated platform packs a number of new features and improvements, including end-to-end system analytics and multi-cluster management in the control fabric. NOS 4.0 also adds tunable resilience and distributed data services in the data fabric.

While some may believe that the Windows XP issue is finally and truly gone, and that IT shops everywhere have moved on to more modern operating systems, there are still organizations that just will not let XP go. Not only that, they are willing to pay millions