desktop linux in news
Intel at work on Linux mini-tablet
News MID tablets will run a simplified "finger-friendly" user interface optimised for the small screens, based on the Gnome desktop but with an Intel-developed "master user interface" layer to serve as an equivalent to the desktop. [16 Apr 2007]
Microsoft puts brakes on Viridian
News Microsoft's desktop virtualisation product, Virtual PC, is now free. For example, VMware has publicly disparaged Microsoft's virtualisation policies, and Microsoft has worked with open source competitor XenSource in an attempt to ensure both... [13 Apr 2007]
Stories of the month - March 2007
News Also big this month - our interview with Sun's "father of Java", James Gosling, giving us an insight into why the company is planning to take Java open source and why Microsoft still rules the desktop waves. [30 Mar 2007]
Brum to extend Linux rollout?
News Head of IT, Glyn Evans, said: "Following on from our pilot [the 200 desktop deployment] we are keen to keep the community that we established together. Out of those PCs, some are running an entirely open source desktop and some are running Windows... [06 Mar 2007]
Ballmer fires off Linux patent warning shot
News We have done very well versus Linux on the desktop and on the server, and I am hopeful that we will build share, particularly in web servers and high-performance clusters, from Linux in the next year," he told analysts. [21 Feb 2007]
Microsoft, Novell talk up technicalities
News In the next few days, Novell intends to release a plug-in to the Suse Enterprise Linux Desktop suite that will allow users to open Microsoft Word documents and save them in the OpenDocument Format, a document standard, said Justin Steinman, Novell... [13 Feb 2007]
CIO Agenda: The 2007 tech shopping list
News A fifth are looking at open source in 2007 but on the server and not the desktop - which backs up the findings of a recent CIO Jury which concluded Linux still isn't ready for mainstream business desktop use. [15 Jan 2007]
Amsterdam splashes cash on desktop Linux trial
News The organisation is keen to reduce its dependence on monopoly suppliers, and two departments within the city authority will spend a total of €300,000 this year evaluating Linux on the desktop. Austria's capital city, Vienna, has embarked on an... [03 Jan 2007]
Red Hat lines up next Linux shipment
News The software includes new security features to protect against some attacks, plus a "technology preview" of Red Hat's Stateless Linux software to let desktop machines pull data and settings from central servers. [02 Jan 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: CIO quotes of the year
News Rorie Devine, IT director, Betfair.com, speaking about the chances of the Linux desktop taking hold Frankly we have much bigger business priorities that re-inventing the desktop yet again. A more likely Unix on the desktop is Mac OS X. [21 Dec 2006]
Stories of the month: November
News Smelly socks, Windows Vista, iPods and the death of the Linux desktop have all been top of the news agenda for silicon.com readers in the last month. CIO Jury: The Linux desktop is dead Why the Linux desktop dream is over [29 Nov 2006]
Did Microsoft undercut open source in Brum?
News Birmingham pulled the plug on its open source desktop project after it found an upgrade to Windows XP was cheaper. Microsoft has insisted it did not slash its software prices to encourage Birmingham City Council to abort its Linux project. [24 Nov 2006]
Sun to offer Java under Linux-friendly licence
News The Sun-hosted Java.net website will provide access to Java Platform Micro Edition software for mobile phones and Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) software for desktop applications. After years of requests and debates, Sun Microsystems is... [13 Nov 2006]
CIO Jury: The Linux desktop is dead
News Linux is unlikely ever to be a viable alternative to Microsoft's Windows on the desktop for corporate IT departments, according to leading CIOs. Just this week new research by the National Computing Centre (NCC) found only one Linux desktop for... [08 Nov 2006]
Microsoft: 'No plans for Zune outside US'
News Read the full interview with Microsoft's Frazer tomorrow, in which he talks about why search, energy consumption and security are compelling reasons for businesses to upgrade to Vista, the ongoing battle against software piracy, and whether the... [02 Nov 2006]
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