Tag: Operating systems

December 14, 2016

For those of you who’ve been waiting to apply Microsoft’s October patches, the coast looks reasonably clear. We have a few outstanding problems with bugs in the latest round of patches — Office 365 Click-to-Run customers need to take special […]

December 8, 2016

Canonical has included a preview version of the Unity 8 desktop in Ubuntu 16.10. But that has not stopped some Linux users from wondering why Unity 8 still hasn’t been finished. The topic came up in a recent post on […]

December 1, 2016

LONDON BOYS IN BLUE the Metropolitan Police may be armed with tasers and extendable batons, but they are backed up by Windows XP in a lot of cases, which is a really bad thing. Windows XP no longer gets official […]

November 17, 2016

Android has had its share of security problems over the years, but now a startup is working hard to fix them. Copperhead OS might be just what the doctor ordered when it comes to Android security. Read More on InfoWorld

November 16, 2016

I’ve been complaining about slow Windows 7 updates since April. Running “check for updates” in Win7 shouldn’t take more than a few minutes, even on a very slow line. Instead, we’ve seen checks that take hours — sometimes many hours. […]

November 8, 2016

OpenBSD, one of the more prominent variants of the BSD family of Unix-like operating systems, will be released at the beginning of September, according to a note on the official OpenBSD website. Often touted as an alternative to Linux. OpenBSD is […]

October 4, 2016

APPLE IS FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS of Microsoft by pushing out macOS Sierra as an automatic download. The company confirmed to The Loop that it will push macOS Sierra to Mac users who have the ‘automatic update’ function switched on […]

October 4, 2016

Numbers based on website hits from both StatCounter and NetMarketshare, the two biggest market tracking organizations, say that Windows 10 usage share flatlined from August to September. NetMarketshare says Windows 10’s slice of desktop operating system use decreased by 0.5 […]

October 3, 2016

WINDOWS 7 use saw a sharp rise in market share this month at the expense of Windows 8.x and, worryingly for Microsoft, the current Windows 10. The latest figures from Net Applications’ Netmarketshare service show Windows 7, now over seven […]

October 3, 2016

IT IS TIME for Android users to smarten up and start playing attention to what they download and from where after Trend Micro warned that a trojan called DressCode is leaking into app stores and making its way towards enterprises, […]

September 28, 2016

SECURITY RESEARCHERS have predicted a world of pain following Microsoft’s decision to include a Linux subsystem in the recent Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Security company CrowdStrike said that this has increased the chessboard of possible attacks to a ruddy great […]

September 6, 2016

If you’ve lost your Windows DVD, or you never had one, you can still reinstall Windows 7without it. Here’s how to install Windows from USB without the DVD. Plus: How to find a lost Windows product key. See also: How to […]

September 2, 2016

Too many in the PC industry have been repeating Microsoft’s claim about fragmented Windows 7 and 8.1 patching, and how we must now move to cumulative updates in order to bring stability to the patching process. Bah. This narrative claims […]

August 29, 2016

On this month’s Patch Tuesday, Aug. 9, Microsoft released a couple of security patches for a hole in kernel-mode drivers. Dubbed MS16-089, the patch came in two different flavors. KB 3177725 patched the security hole in Windows Vista, 7, 8.1, […]

August 29, 2016

Stop. Drop what you’re doing and update your iPhone. A new security hole found by researchers is critically dangerous. The vulnerability could lead to remote code execution, allowing hackers to completely take over an iPhone remotely. Apple has already issued […]

August 29, 2016

Devices powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 and 810 processors reportedly won’t get upgraded to Android 7.0 owing to the processor’s support for the Vulkan API. So says a tweet (below) via LlabTooFer, which claims that Qualcomm won’t release graphics drivers […]

August 24, 2016

Google has pushed out the new version of Android earlier than expected, announcing that Nougat has already started arriving on its own Nexus handsets, despite not yet launching any new Nexus hardware. Typically, owners of Android handsets from the likes […]

August 16, 2016

For the longest time, iPhone fans looking to try out the brand new iOS version well ahead of its official release could do so by installing the betas that preceded the final iOS version. However, many people relied on certain […]

August 16, 2016

Time to grab your indignation sticks and riot, because Microsoft has taken away one of the main things that made keeping Windows 7 and 8 attractive. Starting in October 2016, Windows 7 and 8.1 (Windows 8 being the defunct ginger […]

August 9, 2016

For user-facing features, it mostly plays catch-up to iOS or does minor tweaks on existing capabilities. On the catch-up side, it now lets you decrease the resolution of the display to help older folks read the screen, lets you respond […]