http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Thu, 24 May 2012 16:24:36 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/25674/Mac_OS_X_posts_record_gain_as_Windows_XP_continues_to_slide/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25674/Mac_OS_X_posts_record_gain_as_Windows_XP_continues_to_slide/ On the heels of yesterday's launch of Windows 8's preview, new statistics show that Microsoft's decade-old Windows XP again plummeted in usage share and will be surpassed by Windows 7 in June. Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:26:40 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y 42 http://www.osnews.com/topics/49 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25589/_The_Apple_fanboy_problem_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25589/_The_Apple_fanboy_problem_/ Let this be a lesson. After posts by John Gruber and Shawn King, this happened to Violet Blue. "The misinformation gave a significant number of people fuel to stalk me, attack me for hours at a time, malign, insult me in disgusting ways, threaten me with weapon-specific violent death (an axe), and lead social media attempts to force me to lose my job over the matter. Many referenced John Gruber, and/or his post as they did this. Plans were openly made to make media to attack me - another Angry Mac Bastards podcast." Disgusting story, and sadly enough, this isn't the first time this has happened, as Blue notes in her article. I don't like talking about these matters (you don't want to know the kind of crap that gets thrown my way at times), but I can assure you my inbox has seen its share of pure vitriol after Gruber links to an OSNews piece. It ain't pretty. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:55:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y 128 http://www.osnews.com/topics/49 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25530/No_Apple_Isn_t_Closing_in_on_Android/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25530/No_Apple_Isn_t_Closing_in_on_Android/ "This week, tons of websites are reporting that Apple is catching up with Android when it comes to U.S. smartphone market share. The reports are based on some new data from Nielsen, a metrics company that measures smartphone use. The only problem: people are completely misinterpreting the data." Numbers are fickle beings. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:41:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y 33 http://www.osnews.com/topics/49 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25406/What_Eric_Schmidt_Actually_Said/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25406/What_Eric_Schmidt_Actually_Said/ So, Marco Arment, John Gruber, and MG Siegler (has anyone ever seen them in the same room?) all jumped on a quote from Eric Schmidt which was supposedly very arrogant and proves Schmidt knows no developer likes Android. The joke's on them, though, since none of them actually bothered to watch the source video to verify Schmidt was quoted properly. As it turns out, he was not, as Julian Yap notes. Update: Arment, Siegler, and Gruber have posted updates. Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:22:04 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y 62 http://www.osnews.com/topics/49 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25381/Rumor_LTE_iPhone_5_and_iPad_3_Next_Year/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25381/Rumor_LTE_iPhone_5_and_iPad_3_Next_Year/ Apple is prepping new sixth-generation iPhone and third-generation iPad models with embedded 4G LTE connectivity that will launch next year according to a recent report. Japanese news organization Nikkei Business on Wednesday stated that an iPad 3 with LTE is currently slated to launch on NTT DoCoMo some time during the summer next year, and an LTE-enabled iPhone 5 will launch later in the fall. Apple CEO Tim Cook is said to have met with NTT DoCoMo president Kiyoyuki Tsujimura and VP Takashi Yamada earlier this month to work out the details of the arrangement, and the companies have reportedly reached agreeable terms. NTT DoCoMo did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:22:48 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/49 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25072/Linux_Snickers_at_Microsoft_s_Victory_Declaration/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25072/Linux_Snickers_at_Microsoft_s_Victory_Declaration/ "Who is Microsoft fooling? Other than on the desktop, Linux is eating its lunch, and it's only going to get worse for Microsoft." Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:48:08 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y 73 http://www.osnews.com/topics/49 News sjvn http://www.osnews.com/story/25034/Google_Microsoft_Public_Shouting_Match_Continues/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25034/Google_Microsoft_Public_Shouting_Match_Continues/ The Google-Microsoft patent war of words is continuing. Yesterday, Google (rightfully so, in my book) accused Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle partaking in an organised patent attack against Android, instead of competing on merit, claiming that they bought up Novell's and Nortel's patents solely to attack Android and its device makers. Microsoft struck back, claiming Google was offered to join in on the bids for the Novell patents, but rejected the offer. Google has now responded to this accusation - and to make matters even more confusing, Microsoft responded back. A public shouting match between two powerful parties? Count me in! Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:38:09 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y 94 http://www.osnews.com/topics/49 News http://www.osnews.com/story/24706/Of_OpenBSD_4_9_Linux_and_Licenses/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24706/Of_OpenBSD_4_9_Linux_and_Licenses/ When comparing the evolution in market share of Linux and OpenBSD, two operating systems that were born around the same time, a question comes to mind: why is there such a difference in market penetration? Linux, on one side of the spectrum, with a license that supposedly impairs commercial venues, has enticed companies and organizations to adopt and support it under varying commercial models, while the BSD derivatives (FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD), with a larger history and an allegedly more commercial friendly license haven't been as successful to gather a large installed base and widespread adoption. Fri, 06 May 2011 22:19:44 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y 42 http://www.osnews.com/topics/49 News fvillanustre http://www.osnews.com/story/24520/GNOME_Canonical_Spat_Continues/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24520/GNOME_Canonical_Spat_Continues/ And over the weekend, the saga regarding Canonical, GNOME, and KDE has continued. Lots of comments all over the web, some heated, some well-argued, some wholly indifferent. Most interestingly, Jeff Waugh and Dave Neary have elaborated on GNOME's position after the initial blog posts by Shuttleworth and Seigo, providing a more coherent look at GNOME's side of the story. Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:59:58 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y 141 http://www.osnews.com/topics/49 News http://www.osnews.com/story/24510/Shuttleworth_Seigo_GNOME_s_Not_Collaborating/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24510/Shuttleworth_Seigo_GNOME_s_Not_Collaborating/ If you were, you know, living your lives, you've probably missed it, but old fires are burning brightly once again: there's somewhat of a falling-out going on between KDE and GNOME, with Canonical siding squarely with... KDE. The issue seems to revolve around GNOME's lack of collaboration, as explained by KDE's Aaron Seigo. Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:59:30 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y 148 http://www.osnews.com/topics/49 News http://www.osnews.com/story/23940/Windows_8_To_Be_Released_In_October_2012_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23940/Windows_8_To_Be_Released_In_October_2012_/ Microsoft Netherlands published a news story on their website on Friday to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the release of Windows 7. Nothing surprising there one would think, except for the fact that the last paragraph of the article gave an outlook at the future, revealing the Windows 8 release date. Sun, 24 Oct 2010 23:00:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y 16 http://www.osnews.com/topics/49 News Debjit http://www.osnews.com/story/23913/RIM_co-CEO_TweetDeck_CEO_Respond_to_Jobs_Rant/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23913/RIM_co-CEO_TweetDeck_CEO_Respond_to_Jobs_Rant/ Steve Jobs' rant against Android, RIM, and 7" tablets couldn't go by unnoticed, of course. We already had the rather dry response from Google's Andy Rubin, but Mountain View isn't the only one who responded. TweetDeck's CEO wasn't particularly pleased by Jobs distorting TweetDeck's story on developing for Android, and now we have RIM's co-CEO Jim Balsillie who slammed Cupertino pretty hard. Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:42:02 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y 45 http://www.osnews.com/topics/49 News http://www.osnews.com/story/23912/Jobs_Android_s_Openness_Disingenuous_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23912/Jobs_Android_s_Openness_Disingenuous_/ Catfight! Get out your mobile phones and start filming, because two important personalities in the mobile world just got into a catfight. After the presentation of Apple's (once again) stellar quarterly results (what's with the low iPad sales, though?), Apple's CEO Steve Jobs went on a bit of a tangent regarding Android (among other things). Google's Andy Rubin, the father of Android, responded in a pretty fun way via Twitter. Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:23:43 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y 79 http://www.osnews.com/topics/49 News http://www.osnews.com/story/23887/NYT_Adobe_Microsoft_Discussed_Apple_Possible_Acquisition/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23887/NYT_Adobe_Microsoft_Discussed_Apple_Possible_Acquisition/ Well, this is interesting. The New York Times caught wind of a special and secret meeting between Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer and Adobe's frontman Shantanu Narayen. They claim the entire talk was dedicated to the fight against Apple, and one of the options discussed was... Microsoft acquiring Adobe. Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:32:27 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y 55 http://www.osnews.com/topics/49 News http://www.osnews.com/story/23851/The_BlackBerry_PlayBook_Doesn_t_Exist/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23851/The_BlackBerry_PlayBook_Doesn_t_Exist/ "I am truly shocked that so many people are being duped by BlackBerry's recent announcement of their tablet, the PlayBook. I have read endless comments from people who are saying they can't wait to get this tablet computer. Well, I think I have some bad news for you folks. There is no evidence that the PlayBook exist as advertised. Why do I say this? I will make it brief..." Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:12:20 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc Camen) Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y 57 http://www.osnews.com/topics/49 News