A short history of operating system interface designs since 1981. But what does it say about an operating system – Windows 1.0 in this case – when the only thing that can be said for it was that it had an interesting animated analog clock?
In this year Microsoft finally caught up with the whole graphical [...]

It is 25 years since Bill Gates unveiled the first Windows operating system. I don’t know about anyone else, but it seems to me there has been very little noise made about this… milestone. Isn’t that odd?
Way back in 1983, when big hair, even bigger shoulder pads were the norm and the goodnight Kiwi [...]

Linux: Who got it right, who got it very wrong?
An in-depth article that looks at the uptake of Linux powered operating systems and servers.
While Linux has enjoyed a moderate rate of adoption it hasn’t quite been at the levels predicted several years ago.
In 2004, IDC predicted that growing Linux adoption would push the operating [...]

Future operating systems to remain as Windows and Linux
Looks like there’s going to be no respite from the likes of Windows Vista for sometime, according to UNSW professor of operating systems, Gernot Heiser, who says the current “big name” operating systems (which, as some consolation, include Linux), are here to stay.
Previously big companies had invested [...]

Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Windows XP draws slowly nearer. Microsoft have now made XP SP3, Release Candidate 2, available for download (for the daring) from their website. Full release could be as far away as June this year though.
Windows XP SP3 was originally expected as early as 2006, but has been pushed back several [...]

Question: RTF is a standard, true or false?
If 90 per cent (or whatever very high number the figure actually is) of the globe’s computer users are on Windows machines, then that possibly means 90 per cent of us are unaware that the Rich Text Format, or RTF, as used largely in Word documents, is in [...]

Since the temporary shutdown of the reinvigorate web statistics service, I have been using another tracking service in the interim. This is in addition to my web server stats. Why all the stats services you ask? Well, too much information is not enough, is it?
The back up stats service is one I had along time [...]