Category: OS

Apple Mobile OS

Apple offering ‘last compatible version’ of iOS apps for older hardware

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As reported on Engadget. By Matt Brian With iOS 7 arriving tomorrow, Apple is extending some love to the owners of older iOS devices that have been left behind. New compatibility features, first spotted onReddit, will now kick into action if you attempt to download an app that is not supported by your current firmware. Instead, the company now asks if you’d like to install the last compatible version, which, for some apps, can be over a year…

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Windows 8.1: a first look at what Microsoft is changing

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As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren Microsoft is taking over San Francisco’s Moscone Center today to introduce a preview version of Windows 8.1. Although the company has revealed most of the features in the upcoming update to Windows 8, I’ve had a chance to get well acquainted with the Windows 8.1 preview to learn more about the changes involved. In my previous look at 8.1 I summarized that the preview brings many small tweaks…

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Bring Back the Old “F8” Safe Mode Shortcut in Windows 8

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As reported on LifeHacker. by WHITSON GORDON Windows 8 has a new bootloader designed for UEFI devices, and with it, they’ve removed the F8 shortcut for quickly booting into safe mode. Here’s a quick way to bring it back. The new tiled bootloader is pretty, but it has its annoyances. For example, if you want to boot into a different OS or boot into safe mode, you have to boot up your computer, thenreboot into the…

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The Time Has Come For Chrome In The Home

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JON EVANS I’ve spent the last two weeks wandering around London, Paris, and Istanbul (not Constantinople.) As an experiment, I left my trusty MacBook Pro behind and brought only the $199 Chromebook on which I type this. And to my considerable surprise it has served admirably. So admirably, in fact, that I believe ChromeOS is only one or two iterations away from being the right choice for many-if notmost–homes. I was…

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News OS

Canonical cuts support for non-LTS versions of Ubuntu, users now get nine months of bug fixes

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As reported on Engadget. By Dana Wollman Until now, people who downloaded non-LTS (long-term support) versions of Ubuntuwere treated to a lengthy support period — a full 18 months. Now, though, Ubuntu’s technical board is shortening that support window to nine months, in the hopes that Canonical can assign its engineers to other projects. (If you look at the board’s meeting notes at the link below, the group also agrees that most bugs get fixed within nine…

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Microsoft OS Story

Microsoft confirms forthcoming Windows Blue upgrade for desktop and phone

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As reported on The Verge. By Nathan Ingraham We already knew that that Windows Blue, Microsoft’s forthcoming OS update that willput the Windows platform on a low-cost, yearly update schedule, was scheduled to launch sometime later this year. Now, we’re seeing the first official mention of Windows Blue via a job posting on Microsoft’s careers site. The job is for a software development engineer who will join the “Core Experience team” to work on “most of…

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StormFly Wants To Childproof Your Computer With Its Ubuntu-Booting USB Bracelet

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CHRIS VELAZCO When I was but a wee lad, I hosed my share of family computers simply because I wanted to help out — once I tried to free up space on a 6GB hard drive by deleting anything larger than 1MB. You can imagine how well that played out. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that the founders of Barcelona-based Now Computing went through something similar, because they’ve just recently launched a Kickstarter…

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Mobile OS

What we know about BlackBerry 10

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As reported on Engadget. By Sarah Silbert Despite — or rather thanks to — major delays in releasing BlackBerry 10, RIM has let quite a bit slip about its upcoming operating system and related BB10 devices. We’ve had more than a year to absorb leaks, rumors and official information, after all, so it’s no surprise that we have a very good idea of what to expect when Waterloo pulls back the curtain on January 30th. That doesn’t mean…

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Cloud Culture Google OS

Rise of the Chromebook: Lenovo is the latest to challenge Windows laptops

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As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren With aggressive pricing and growing support for Chrome OS, Microsoft has its work cut out Should the lowly Chromebook — once a laughing stock of the PC world — have Microsoft worried? Google first announced its Chrome operating system back in mid-2009, before shipping the first Chromebook laptops with the software preinstalled two years later. At the time the idea of just a web browser for an OS seemed…

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Mobile OS

The Ubuntu Phone OS Doesn’t Stand A Chance

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS I’m an open-source fan and want more than anything for Linux to spread to the far reaches of every desk and kitchen table where enterprise grunts linger. But there is no chance that Ubuntu will make it in those places. Even if the new Ubuntu Phone OS that Canonical launched today looks pretty, it still is late and oddly tied to the desktop. I would not even call it a mobile strategy. It’s…

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