Tag Archives: operating system

Windows 8′s Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) sports a sad face so you don’t have to

The “reimagined” version of Windows that Microsoft is currently working on holds a lot more secrets than that new Metro-style Xbox Live app. Along with many other UI and feature changes, Windows 8 will have a brand new Blue Screen of Death or BSoD for every time that it runs into an error or crashes [...]

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Jolicloud 1.0 netbook OS now available for everyone

If you’re serious about cloud computing at all you’ve probably already heard about Jolicloud. And if you have, but you still aren’t using it for some reason, you should know that Jolicloud 1.0 is now available for everyone to download and install on their own netbooks or similar devices. Prior to this, it was only [...]

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MeeGo 1.01 software update for netbook OS gets launched

Good news for early adopters of the MeeGo software platform. If you’re already running the MeeGo OS on your netbook and would like to see some improvement or are still looking into it, MeeGo version 1.01 has just been released and from the reports about its performance so far, it seems like worth the update. [...]

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Jolicloud 1.0 to have touchscreen display support right out of the box

So Jolicloud already supports netbooks with Intel’s Atom N450 CPU. As it nears its final release, a new enhancement is officially announced: out-of-the-box support for some touchscreen displays. Over on the official Jolicloud blog, a short list of supported touchscreen technologies have been put up (though I’m sure most of the names there will be [...]

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Google Chrome OS to be released by fall of 2010, says Google VP of product management

If you’re one of the many people who have been looking forward to the release of Google’s open-source Chrome operating system since the day it was first announced, then you’ll be glad to know that Google’s VP of product management Sundar Pichai spoke at Computex 2010 in Taipei and said Chrome OS is on track [...]

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