Windows Beat Unix, But it Won't Beat Linux
Opinion: Here's why the boys from Redmond aren't going to be able to pull it off. Twelve years ago, I oversaw a PC Magazine feature on Unix on Intel. My team and I reviewed at Unixes from Consensys, Dell, Interactive, SCO, Univel, Sun, and NeXT. We also looked at, but didn't review, Unixes from UHC, Microport and other companies most of you have never heard of.
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Windows and Xbox help Microsoft earnings beat predictions
Microsoft today confirmed their first quarter results stating that Windows and Xbox exceeded expectations due to strong consumer demand.
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23.10.2009 Can Linux beat the bloat
Linus Torvalds shocked the crowd (well, the group) at LinuxCon this week with three words.
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25.9.2009 Apple, Microsoft on Windows on Mac
Microsoft's response to Apple's release of Boot Camp with a positive statement:
"Windows is a great operating system," a Microsoft statement said. "We're pleased that Apple customers are excited about running it, and that Apple is responding to meet the demand."
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8.4.2006 Microsoft Warns Apple On iPhone
Software giant Microsoft has warned its rival, Apple Inc., into launching its iPhone and said the much-awaited modern mobile phone could face some very serious challenges if the popular iPod MP3 player is integrated into it.
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12.1.2007 Microsoft Prepares Apple GarageBand Competitor
It seems that the ongoing battle between Apple and Microsoft is about to get a bit bigger. According to Microsoft-Watch, Microsoft is preparing a program code named Monaco to go up against GarageBand, a part of Apple's iLife suite.
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9.4.2006 Microsoft to open Apple-like retail shops
Our sources close to Microsoft have confirmed that the company wants to reach out for the retail market presence. Microsoft wants to open and create many retail shops dedicated exclusive to Microsoft and its products.
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14.4.2008 Microsoft introduces Apple-like tours of Windows 7
Microsoft has introduced some product tours of Windows 7 in action, similar to Apple's guided tours.
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29.6.2009 DRM-Free Music Plays for Microsoft. Sorry, Apple
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is getting exactly what he asked for nearly a year ago: industry movement away from DRM music. But the DRM freedom he wanted is looking more like DRM freedom from Apple.
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8.1.2008 Going Against Apple, the Microsoft Store Offers Vista SP1
Traditionally, Microsoft has relayed on its ecosystem of retail, original equipment manufacturing, and system builders partners to sell its software solutions.
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2.6.2008 Microsoft to Mac enterprise bloggers: How much to sell out Apple?
Vista is much better than Mac OS X, right? For the enterprise. And how much will it take to get you to write up that thesis?
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21.10.2008 Windows 7 to open another round in Apple-Microsoft rivalry
Will Windows 7 blunt some of Apple’s momentum? At least one analyst thinks it’s possible.
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3.6.2009 iCar by Apple
Distrust for Windows Could Help Apple
A new report out by market research firm Forrester suggests that Apple could double its market share through defections from the Windows platform alone. The firm said that much of this has to do with customers' deep distrust of Microsoft.
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14.4.2006 Apple Announces iPhone
Macworld is going on right now, and Apple’s biggest announcement of the day so far has been the introduction of the iPhone.
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9.1.2007 Get ready for the summer of Apple
Apple is preparing for one of the most pivotal summers in its history. On June 29, the company is expected to release the iPhone, perhaps one of the most hyped gadgets in history and a clear sign of where CEO Steve Jobs is placing his bets.
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9.6.2007 Apple twice the price of PCs
Research by analyst house NPD has shown that, on average, Apple users pay twice as much in the shops as PC users.
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11.8.2008 Why Apple does not make a netbook
As netbooks continue their inexorable rise up the wish lists of gadget hounds, businesses and ordinary folk alike, the clamor for Apple to join the market continues to increase from all sides.
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5.3.2009 Apple looking to purchase EA?
Take this with a with a grain of salt, but the intertubes are buzzing with rumours that Apple is going to acquire Electronic Arts, the world's second largest gaming company. Yup, Twitter isn't the only one they are going after apparently.
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5.5.2009 Apple Boot Camp 1.1.1 Beta
Boot Camp lets you install Windows XP without moving your Mac data, though you will need to bring your own copy to the table, as Apple Computer does not sell or support Microsoft Windows.
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17.9.2006 Microsoft's Zune 'no threat' to Apple
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has rubbished claims that Microsoft's Zune media player will pose a serious threat to the iPod's market dominance.
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17.10.2006 Apple’s “Leopard” has Glass UI
Think Secret today published some new screenshots (a report) of Apple's latest "Leopard" Build - Build 9A321.
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22.12.2006 Nortel may sue Apple over iPhone
NOT CONTENT with getting itself into hot water with Cisco over the iPhone name, Apple may find itself in deep water over the use of the term 'Visual Voicemail'.
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15.1.2007 Apple iPhone vs. Nokia N95
Perhaps no other cell phone in history has been as anticipated as Apple's iPhone. From the moment it was announced by Apple to the time it was released six months later, the cell phone was a constant topic of rumors and speculation.
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21.8.2007 Apple: Give Up on Windows Vista!
You know that old saying… all is fair in operating system measuring contests? Well, enter the unorthodox daddy of all operating system measuring contests…
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22.11.2007 What if Apple had conducted the Mojave Experiment?
In watching the many negative blog posts and comments about Microsoft’s “Mojave Experiment” — designed to try to distinguish perception from reality around Vista — I can’t help but wonder how different the take would be if it were Apple doing the same kind of marketing campaign.
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30.7.2008 Apple Safari 4 beta - not for Windows 7
Safari 4 beta work only in Windows XP and Vista. Apple has released to public beta its Safari 4 web browser, and I thought I’d give it a hands-on spin to see what all the fuss is about. Here are my first impressions and review.
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24.2.2009 Apple teaches iPhone 3.0 new tricks
The first round of news out of today’s Apple event has to do with a “major update” to the iPhone and iPod Touch operating system.
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17.3.2009 No Media Player 10 for Apple users
Microsoft will not be developing a version of Media Player 10 for the Mac
Microsoft has confirmed that it will not be developing a version of its Media Player 10 for Apple users.
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20.1.2006 Apple Releases Boot Camp 1.1 (Beta)
Apple has quietly posted an update to Boot Camp to version 1.1. According to the Boot Camp page, the new version remains in beta and contains many updates for all new and previous Boot Camp beta users.
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16.8.2006PC Shipments May Beat 2005
Forecast
IDC predicts 2005 European,
Asian sales will beat last
year's totals...
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22.09.2005Rumor: iPhone to get 3.2 mega pixel camera
Digitimes is reporting that Apple has placed orders for 3.2 mega pixel cameras that are designated for the next revision of the iPhone. The supplier
to Apple will be Omnivision who beat out STMicroelectronics and Aptina Imaging for the Apple orders the source cited. Also being reported is that
Apple ordered "5-megapixel CIS orders for another Apple product expected to be launched later in the year." No other reference was given on what
the potential new product may be but there have been hints that it could possible be included for the next revision of the iPod Touch. As with any
rumor take it with a grain of salt as nothing is confirmed until Apple announces it.
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03.04.2009IBM, Microsoft Trounce Apple on Climate Friendliness Scorecard
IBM earned top honors among electronics manufacturers on a recently-updated
climate friendliness scorecard (.pdf), earning 77 out of a possible 100
points to beat runners-up Canon, Toshiba, Sony and HP in a ranking of the companies' responsiveness to climate change. IBM, which makes big, hulking
servers and mainframe computers, even beat out Microsoft (38 points) and Google (55), whose products are composed entirely of electrons. Apple, which
has
taken heat from Greenpeace for the allegedly toxic chemicals in its
iPhone, scored a pathetic 11 out of 100.
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08.05.2008Hitachi Scrambles to Prove It Can Beat Fujitsu to 1 Terabit HDDs
In its regular prediction of future milestones at the opening of a major annual magnetic recording conference in Tokyo, Hitachi raised the bar yet
again: This time, the company is promising to reach the one terabit per square inch milestone commercially by 2011. First, that might be too late to
beat its competition; second, Hitachi may have to show more proof it can reach that goal even that soon...
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16.10.2007Warnings of 'internet overload'
As the flood of data across
the internet continues to
increase, there are those that
say sometime soon it is going
to collapse under its own
weight. But that is what they
said last year.
Back
in the early 90s, those of us
that were online were just
sending text e-mails of a few
bytes each, traffic across the
main US data lines was
estimated at a few terabytes a
month, steadily doubling every
year. The mid 90s saw the
arrival of picture-rich
websites, and the invention of
the MP3. Suddenly each net
user wanted megabytes of
pictures and music, and the
monthly traffic figure
exploded.
But since
2003, we have seen a change in
the way we use the net. The
YouTube generation want to
stream video, and download
gigabytes of data in one go.
"In one day YouTube
sends data equivalent to 75
billion e-mails, so it's
clearly very different," said
Phil Smith, head of technology
and corporate marketing at
Cisco Systems.
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17.06.2007Apple beats all competitors on reliability, support again
For the second year running, Apple Inc.'s computers are the most reliable, and its support is the most dependable of all computer makers selling
in the U.S., according to according to Rescuecom Corp.'s third annual reliability report. Rescuecom comes up with its scores by comparing the
percentage of each vendor's support calls with its U.S. market share, said company CEO David Milman. Apple's Macs beat machines sold and
supported by Panasonic, Lenovo, Toshiba and Hewlett-Packard, according to Rescuecom Corp.'s third annual reliability report. Apple, which took the
top spot last year, more than doubled its score from 2007 and again trounced the competition, this year posting a score 43% higher than next-best
Panasonic Corporation of North America.
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18.12.2008Nokia Beats Apple in Smartphone Shipments Worldwide
With the recent squabbling over the Motorola Droid's status as the next potential "iPhone killer, one could assume Apple has become the
competitor to beat in the smartphone marketplace. But while countless reviewers try to measure the relative "cool" factor of these high profile
gadgets, Nokia has been managing quite well on its own worldwide, continuing its lead in the sector with 37.9 percent of the market share in the third
quarter of this year, according to research firm IDC. The next closest competitors are Research in Motion, makers of the Blackberry, with 19 percent
market share and Apple with 17.1 percent based on shipment volume worldwide.
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08.11.2009First Look CorelDraw X4: Still the one to beat
Wolfgang Gruener: Corel is about to release a new version of its śDrawť graphics suite, which is one of the very few remaining complete graphics
suites on the market. Now in its 14th generation, it hasnt lost its original look and feel and remains the most convincing PC graphics product for
ambitious consumers and graphic artists.
Sometimes at the beginning of this decade, just when Corel went through a tough time,
the companys core product somehow lost its appeal. It was Draw that had made Corel famous in the early 90s and it was pretty much Draw that carried
the Ottawa-based firm through that decade. But, beginning with version 6, Draw became visibly bloated and Corel looked like it had lost its focus. I
personally felt the reasons for an upgrade to a new version were fading and that is why my most current Draw package in use is still v10 (released in
2000).
Version 14, in Corel language śX4ť, has made its way to the Gold Master disc a few weeks ago and I had a chance to take a
first look over the past week. Heres my impression.
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03.02.2008WindowsServer2008.com Bought By Mac Fan
Nathan Weinberg:
Check out this link:
WindowsServer2008.com. You’d expect it to take you to Microsoft’s
website for Windows Server 2008, but instead it forwards to apple.com’s page showing off the Macbook Air. Looks like some Apple fan,
possibly working for Symmetry Technical Consultants Inc. in Florida, bought the domain in October
2006 and is now using it to embaress Microsoft. Wonder how they beat Microsoft to registering it?
I was turned onto this website
by a Microsoftie, who remarked that (and I’m paraphrasing), “No Microsoft person does this when it comes to Apple products, and that says
a lot about Apple users, if you ask me”. The word “immature” might have been in there, too.
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30.01.2008Netscape to Ship on New HP
Computers
AOL subsidiary Netscape has
signed the first non-IE
browser distribution deal with
a major PC manufacturer since
the late 90s. Starting early
next year, Hewlett-Packard
will ship Netscape 8 on all
new PCs and laptops, with
customized tabs leading to HP
and Compaq Web destinations...
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03.10.2005Virtual worlds firm files IP suit on Christmas Eve
Worlds.com, which launched its first 3D avatar environment back in the mid-90s, has retained an intellectual property law firm and has filed patent
infringement suits. Its first, against game developer NCsoft, was filed on Christmas Eve...
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30.12.2008Psystar Continues to Battle Despite Apple Lawsuit
Adding another blow to the lawsuit brought on by Apple, Psystar has started making Leopard restore disks available at no extra cost to customers who
purchase Mac Clones from the company.
Psystar has received several comments and questions asking if they are still selling Mac clones -
their answer: "Definitely". Mac "Clones" sold by the company are a fraction of the price of Apple's machines, some as low as a quarter of the
price of an equivilent "authentic" Mac. The company claims the difference is caused by Apple marking the cost of Mac hardware up by 80%.
Will Apple be able to beat Psystar? At the moment, it's looking fairly unlikely (they are still pulling the copyright card - which an Antitrust
ruling (which, coincidentally, Apple are attempting to challenge) voided). Either way, it looks like it's going to be a very long game of cat and
mouse.
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15.08.2008Report: Apple stores' Mac sales beat PC stores by 10-to-1
An average Apple retail outlet easily outperforms its generic counterpart in terms of revenue and sales -- but the expense of supporting all those
customers may be pulling Apple down, says a new investment note from Bernstein Research.
Senior analyst Toni Sacconaghi expresses
surprise at the numbers in the report, which observes that the typical Apple retail location sells about 21.4 Macs every day versus "less than 2"
for many less specialized electronics shops. This amounts to about 8,000 Macs per store per year and played a crucial role in expanding the Mac's
appeal: about two-thirds of store revenues came from the computers and likely earned Apple the lion's share of its converts.
"We estimate that the stores, which collectively represent just 2.5% of the Mac's global distribution points, drove more than one third of its
market share gain during the year," Sacconaghi says.
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08.01.2008EarthLink Resurrects
MindSpring Brand
EarthLink said Monday it is
bringing back MindSpring --
one of the most successful
Internet brands of the 90s --
for a free voice over IP
offering. Like Skype,
MindSpring users can make free
calls via the PC and receive
voicemail to their e-mail
address. Outbound calls to
cell and landline phones can
be made for a small fee...
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03.04.2006iPod, iTunes Beat Sony in
Japan Market
Apple on Wednesday said both
its iPod music player and
iTunes Music Store have
toppled Japan native Sony to
become number one in the
Japanese music market. Sony
had led as recently as July,
but Apple's fortunes turned a
corner with the introduction
of iTunes in the country...
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17.11.2005Apple unveils new iPod touch, "fat" iPod nano at special event
Observers have been expecting a significant revamp to
Apple's iPod lineup, especially after
the release of the iPhone in all of its touch-screen glory. So when Apple announced today's special eventas we predictedwith the tagline "The beat
goes on," we knew the time for an iPod refresh had come. We weren't disappointed, as Apple announced an all-new line-up of iPods from top to bottom,
including a new "fat" iPod nano, a "classic" iPod, and the much-anticipated iPod touch with WiFi, Safari, and a touch-screen interfacean iPhone
without the phone capabilities.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs began by announcing that Apple had distributed over 600 million copies of
iTunes, that the iTunes Store is the top online music store in 21 countries, and that Apple has sold 95 million TV shows so far.
The first major announcement was that a new version of iTunes to be released later today will support ringtones as well as the other new products
Apple has on tap. Ringtones will be available for 99¢ in addition to the 99¢ song price. Users can create custom ringtones from over 500,000 songs.
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05.09.2007Beatles' Apple Corps After
Apple Again
For the third time, Apple
Corps, the company that
represents the business
interests of the Beatles, and
Apple Computer will meet in
court. Apple Corps is accusing
Apple of breaking a 1991
agreement by selling music
online, and will argue its
case in London this week...
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27.03.2006Apple confirms "Special Event" on September 5th
Apple Inc. will use a special media event on September 5th to introduce a new array digital media offerings, according to digital invitations issued
to analysts and members of the media Tuesday afternoon.
The invites, which arrived by e-mail, depict an enlarged CoverFlow
interface with the caption, "The beat goes on."
The event is scheduled to take place at the Moscone West in San Francisco on
September 5 at 10:00 a.m.
Apple is widely expected to use the gathering to usher in a new breed of Mac OS X-based iPods.
Additional announcements relating to the company's iTunes software and digital media download service are also expected.
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29.08.2007Apple threatens legal action over the iGasm
Apple is threatening legal
action after sex shop Anne
Summers launched a device
entitled the ‘iGasm'. Sold
for $60, the ‘iGasm'
vibrates in time to music
played off an ipod or mp3
player. The advert reads:
" This genius little device
hooks up to your iPod, MP3
player, laptop or CD player
and vibrates in sync with the
beat ." Apple's lawyers
are getting shifty because the
‘iGasm' is being marketed
using the trademark Apple
Silhouette and white
headphones (and ‘iGasm' in
this case! ) which could
easily be mistaken for an
official iPod advert. Apple
seems very keen to avoid this
kind of publicity!
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25.05.2007Is Microsoft the juggernaut of yore?
If you were to ask the average citizen to describe Microsoft they would probably tell you that they are a mega-corporation whose main product is
Windows. Depending on their age they may also describe the company as one that has a monopoly on many software genres and is anti-competitive.
During the 90s and even in to the early 2000s Microsoft dominated the home computer landscape. The typical user wrote their documents in Microsoft
Office, on top of a Windows XP platform while browsing in IE 6. They were so dominant, in fact, that they were ruled as being anti-competitive in
Europe in 2004. In 2000, Microsoft had a market share of about 87% and today this figure remains unchanged.
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