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A radical new day has dawned for the operating system. Today Google finally aired its long awaited Chrome Operating System.  The operating system was detailed at a press conference starting at 1 p.m. EST, and the open source code was posted online just before the start of the presentation.  The new operating system brings a dramatically different look and perspective to ...

Security is a serious concern now more than ever, with hackers and cybercriminals becoming more organized and looking to profit on a wealth of stolen information.  Typically problems fall into the PICNIC variety - Problem In Chair, Not In Computer - but that does not change the fact that some platforms due to design are more vulnerable to attack. Typically vulnerability ...

'Microsoft is listening to you, and here's what it's done.' - Microsoft's Windows 7 team has been pretty quiet for the last month and a half since releasing their beta to the public, and many wondered what, if any, changes were going to show up in the final version of Windows 7.  Microsoft's senior vice president in charge of the Windows ...

Microsoft has a lot riding on Windows 7 after Vista was poorly adopted by enterprise users and consumers. Windows 7 so far has been doing much better than Vista and is growing rapidly in marketshare in the computer market. Early reports showed that retail box sales of Windows 7 were up a whopping 234% compared to sales of Vista over the ...

With Windows Vista, Microsoft revamped many features and piled on a lot of functionality that Windows XP didn't have - among other things improving security.  An unfortunate side effect of this, though was that Windows Vista was much bulkier than Windows XP and more battery hungry.  As a result, up until October most netbooks used Windows XP. With Windows 7, more ...

'Who leaked Windows 7? Was it Microsoft? Or hackers? Or the 1991 Denver Broncos?' - Microsoft's Windows 7 beta 1 was not officially intended for release until January.  However, the release somehow hit torrent sites this week.  Many, including commenters here at DailyTech, suspected the "leak" was really a clever ruse by Microsoft to drum up tech community excitement for its ...

'Windows 7 is set to drop mid-year 2009, says Microsoft. The company also detailed its plans for improving Vista.' - At Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), an important yearly event for the tech giant, new hardware details on the upcoming Windows 7 weren't the only revelation that Microsoft had in store.  Perhaps the most significant development of the conference came as ...

'Unfortunately, the fix won't arrive until next Vista service pack.' - Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is one of the most maligned operating systems Microsoft has ever produced. The operating system has been panned by some users and critics and has become the brunt of jokes in commercials from rival Apple for its Mac computer systems. One of the key things ...

It is fitting that Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system arrives ahead of Halloween. When Microsoft buries Windows Vista for good on Oct. 22 and replaces it with Windows 7, the ghostbusters in Redmond will have exorcised a demon. If you haven't experienced the frights of Vista firsthand, you've no doubt heard about them: how it takes forever to power ...

Oct. 18 - With Windows 7, Microsoft may have found its mojo again. Reviewers are giving the new operating system the thumbs up, this after the technical and marketing blunders the company was unable to shake with the predecessor, Vista. Still, even though Windows 7 has been lauded as everything Vista should have been, Microsoft is launching its flagship product Thursday ...

If there's one thing clear from the Google Voice iPhone debacle, it's that there's no love lost between AT&T and Google.  AT&T, to date, is accusing Google of everything from political and news manipulation, to violating net neutrality. The drama surrounding the rejection began shortly after when the Federal Communications Commission opened an inquiry into who was responsible for the rejection ...

Oct. 26 - PORTLAND, Ore. - Maybe I'm on to something. For a good part of last week, my musings about Ubuntu Linux was among the top five most-read stories on our site. Since the other top stories concerned health-insurance reform or the H1N1 vaccine and similar weighty topics, the presence of a geek-oriented column came as a pleasant surprise. I ...

With Windows 7 launching this week, there are many businesses and consumers looking to upgrade from Windows XP and Vista to the new OS. For the individual upgrading a single computer may not be that big of an issue, but for enterprise users with hundreds of thousand of machines needing updated, the migration to a new OS can be arduous. Dell ...

Cloud computing, the new buzz-phrase of the tech world, is actually an exercise in common sense for many applications. Eric Knorr, a tech blogger at InfoWorld.com, contends that hosting a company's e-mail on local servers "is a storage hog, a time-suck to manage, a compliance liability, and about the least strategic thing imaginable," and I'm inclined to agree for the most ...

Oct. 6 - Microsoft Corp. sorely needs its upcoming Windows 7 operating system to be a hit, and Dallas-area companies are prepared to help make that happen. Once upon a time, new operating systems from Microsoft were considered landmark events in the technology business, like a carnival coming to town. Windows 95 was a blockbuster, and Windows XP is one of ...

Windows 7 is getting closer to its October 22 launch date.  With improved security, better compatibility, and a slick new look, the OS should please owners of both powerful and underpowered machines alike.  Microsoft has already offered hot pre-order deals, but now it has announced its sweetest deal of them all. Students with a valid student email address are eligible to ...

Funny how a pair of smartphones from the same handset maker come across so differently. The Hero from Sprint is generally a pleasure to use and a credible new rival against BlackBerrys and iPhones. AT&T's Pure, on the other hand, reminds me of cranky child. The two phones are sired by HTC of Taiwan. The disparity has less to do with ...

Things were looking good when Microsoft announced its default Windows 7 pricing, which was lower than the prices of the previous Windows edition, Vista.  With that announcement came news of a pre-order program which sold Home Premium upgrade licenses for only $49.99, less than normal price of $119.99 (a pre-order of Windows 7 Professional, upgrade, similar dropped the price from $199.99 ...

'The truth comes out about User Account Control.' - Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system has been lambasted ever since it was launched for consumers in January 2007. Diehard Windows users balked at the steep system requirements, sometimes sluggish performance, inadequate driver support, and varying products SKUs at multiple price points. One feature that has caused quite a bit of controversy with ...

'Microsoft's restrictions for Windows XP on ULPCs gets leaked.' - In early April, Microsoft made a lot of OEM and consumers happy with the announcement that Windows XP Home would live on in ultra-low-cost PCs (ULPCs) until June 30, 2010. The rise of such low-cost machines as the ASUS Eee PC - which primarily runs on a Linux-based operating system - ...