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Want a peek at a non-Windows operating system from Microsoft?

Want a peek at a non-Windows operating system from Microsoft?What is it with peopleThat just can't seem to use a "Z" where required?Well done!nt9.8!! NTnt"fr0thy-OS - Your Thinking, My Poisson"Your thinking, my FISH?????LMAOOne of the funniest things I've read on this site.::snicker::Given how well it worked for Borg Gates and...

Tags: .NET, Middleware, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., CLR, CLR virtual machine, operating system, non-Windows operating System, Singularity, managed code, virtual machine

Discussion threads 2008-03-04

Cosmos%3A+An+open-source+.Net-based+microkernel+OS+is+born

Cosmos%3A+An+open-source+.Net-based+microkernel+OS+is+bornawesome...another alternative, lightweight OSMicrosoft ought to rebuild Windows on top of its stripped-down kernel so that Windows can run efficiently with fewer resources.Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....."[b][b] can't hold a candle to Linux."please cut the crap![i]Cosmos is 100% C#. The only assembly is emitted by our compiler.[/i]Last time I checked C# code was plain...

Tags: Programming languages, Operating systems, .NET, cosmo, open source, Microsoft Corp., Java, operating system, compiler

Discussion threads 2008-02-06

Embedded perceptions: Unix vs Windows

My family and I had breakfast, just recently, at a place called Biscuits in Portland. The food was great: in my case real bacon and three eggs that came from a chicken rather than a factory. Afterwards I got asked why, for very nearly the same money, Biscuits can provide...

Tags: Sun, Linux, Government

Blog posts 2007-06-21

OS ranking - confusion to the nth

Last week I got into a talkback discussion with frequent contributor "bportlock" first over a throw away comment about the PC having been substandard at its introduction and being substandard now - and, then, more interestingly, about ways of ranking operating systems. ...

Tags: Vistabulations, General

Blog posts 2007-04-03

More on a Web-based Microsoft Office

My post yesterday Microsoft building a fully Web-based Office? generated some interesting discussion. To remind you what my original post said, Microsoft is planning to ramp up its 'software as a service' strategy by rolling out hosted implementations of SharePoint, CRM and ERP applications. Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie will...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Web

Blog posts 2005-10-28

A step in the right direction for PalmSource?

PalmSource has announced that, by virtue of its pending-acquisition of China MobileSoft, it will offer a Linux-based version of the PalmOS.  Philosophically speaking, it's absolutely the right move for PalmSource to port its entire environment to an operating system with a big developer following.  I've been recommending that PalmSource make such a move...

Tags: PalmOS, PalmSource Inc.

Blog posts 2004-12-08

Sun Case Study: CIDCO, Inc.

CIDCO Incorporated is a leading innovator in smart telephones and personal communications devices. CIDCO's vision is to reinvent the telephone and radically improve the way people communicate, access information and conduct commerce. As part of that vision, CIDCO announced its licensing of Sun Microsystems' JavaOS for Consumers, Sun's PersonalJava platform,...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., CIDCO Inc., Java, Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Software

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