Nuke plants to keep PDP-11 UNTIL 2050!

Coders and their Zimmer frames converge in CanadaHP might have nuked OpenVMS, but its parent, PDP-11, is still spry and powering GE nuclear power-plant robots and will do for another 37 years.…

SCO vs. IBM battle resumes over ownership of Unix

Zombie lawsuit back and wants to suck the brains out of LinuxIBM's lawsuit with SCO over just who owns Unix has crawled out of the grave and seems set to shuffle back into US courts.…

Array slinger X-IO jumps on Windows Storage Server filly, digs in heels

Giddy up, there's a new NAS box to flogArray supplier X-IO will run Windows Storage Server 2012 inside its data vaults in hope of a Redmond-assisted sales boost.…

Ex-Palm CEO Rubinstein wishes HP sale never happened

'Talk about a waste'Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein is still proud of the work the ill-fated PDA maker did on its webOS smartphone platform, but when asked if he would have done anything differently there's still one thing that sticks in his craw.…

Linus Torvalds threatens verbal assault on developers' pets

Bloated rc5 for kernel 3.10 makes Linux Lord grumpy with devs, hamstersLinux Lord Linus Torvalds has made another colourful public statement, threatening developers' mothers and hamsters.…

Windows NT grandaddy OpenVMS taken out back, single gunshot heard

HP signals end to legendary big iron beastDigital Compaq HP has announced the end of support for various flavours of OpenVMS, the ancient but trustworthy server operating system whose creator went on to build Windows NT.…

Live Reg TV: We tour Server 2012's Hyper-V 3 and high availability

Virty machine monitoring and much, much more this monthHands-on On 18 June at 10:00 BST we've got our Tim Phillips and QA’s Paul Gregory diving into another feature of Windows Server 2012: using Hyper-V 3.0 to increase the availability of virtual machines.…

Microsoft video preview shows Windows 8.1 tablet UI options

Tiny tiles and pretty personalization toolsVideo Microsoft has had a lot to say about the forthcoming Windows 8.1 update, both in its blogs and at conferences like TechEd and Computex, and now it's gone ahead and posted a five-minute video tour so that we can see some of the new features in action.…

Microsoft parades Windows 8.1, the version you may actually want

Outlook, Office, Start buttonComputex 2013 Microsoft today demonstrated Windows 8.1 for the first time in public and showed off at least 60 compatible devices - including Haswell-powered gadgets.…

Apple releases Mountain Lion, Safari updates

No problems to report – so farApple has released an OS update that brings Mountain Lion up to version 10.8.4, fixes an array of bugs including Microsoft Exhange compatibility problems, and brings Safari up to version 6.0.5.…

Microsoft touts business features of Windows 8.1

It's not all about the Start button, as it turns outTechEd Much of Microsoft's marketing push for Windows 8 has focused on consumers, but Redmond took time at its annual TechEd conference in New Orleans to explain that its forthcoming Windows 8.1 update will include lots of new enhancements for enterprises, as well.…

PowerShell daddy on Windows Server 2012 R2: Cloudy cloud cloud

Control the whole stack and cloud's just an 'OS problem'TechEd “We don’t spend much time on our virtualisation competitors any more. We’ve moved beyond that,” said Jeffrey Snover, Windows Server and System Center Lead Architect, at a press preview of Windows Server 2012 R2.…

Firefox OS: Go away fanbois, fandroids - you wouldn't understand

Repeat after me: developers, developers, developers, developers...Hands-on The Western world's smartphone market has devolved into a duopoly of Apple's iOS and Google's Android. In the rest of the world, however, the mobile story has yet to be written... and this is where Mozilla hopes users will embrace its mobile operating system, Firefox OS.…

Former Microsoft Windows chief: I was right to kill the Start button

And to leave halfway through the Win 8 rolloutEx-Windows chief Steven Sinofsky is “happy” with the miserable sales record of tablets and PCs running his Windows 8 baby.…

Fedora's Schrödinger's Cat Linux gives coders claws for thought

Version 19 beta: Still alive or dead on arrival?Review The Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, devised by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935, pits the theory of quantum superposition against what we observe to be true.…

Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Microsoft no longer dominates PC biz

'Let's focus on our own excellence, not someone else's product'Ubuntu headman and part-time astronaut Mark Shuttleworth has declared victory over Microsoft's domination of the PC industry, noting that the competitive landscape today is far different from what it was when Ubuntu launched in 2004.…

Microsoft's Windows 8.1 secrets REVEALED ... sort of

Redmond lifts the veil on anticipated 'Blue' updateAfter weeks of teasing us with vague promises, Microsoft has at last revealed some concrete details of what will be included in Windows 8.1, the update formerly known as "Blue."…

Windows 8.1 Start button SPOTTED in the wild

It's not the same Start button as Windows 7's, thoughLeaked screenshots of a prerelease build of Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8.1 update reveal that the rumors are true and the Start button really is coming back – though perhaps not in the way users of previous versions of Windows might like.…

Fedora 19 lands in beta with updates for devs, cloud

OpenShift Origin stack now bundled by defaultThe Fedora Project has announced the beta release of Fedora 19, codenamed "Schrödinger's Cat", almost exactly six months since the previous version entered beta.…

Fedora cooks up new Linux for Raspberry Pi

Pidora 18 'remix' can reveal a Pi's IP address by flashing LEDsRaspberry Pi users have another operation system option, after the folks behind Fedora Linux changed their recipe and issued a “remix” of the OS for the tiny computer.…

Samsung, carriers tout first Tizen mobes for late 2013

HTML5 seen as key to open source smartphone successTDC2013 You could be forgiven for thinking there's not much going on with Tizen, the Linux Foundation's open source mobile OS. It's been two years since the project was launched and there still are no Tizen devices on the market. But that's about to change – and there has been a lot happening behind the scenes, as well.…

Happy 23rd birthday, Windows 3.0

The OS with three different memory modes chalks up another anniversaryThis week marks the 23rd birthday of Windows 3.0, which came into this world on May 22nd, 1990, and gave the world improved colour graphics and the infamous File Manager.…

More than half of Windows 8 users just treat it like Windows 7

Almost nobody using Windows Store apps, survey findsFor all Microsoft's hype about The Interface Formerly Known As Metro (TIFKAM), more than half of all Windows 8 users ignore the new Start Screen and treat the OS as if it were Windows 7, according to a study by PC management firm Soluto.…

Biz bods: Tile-tastic Windows 8? NOOO. We lust after 'mature' Win 7

Tired corporates prefer predecessor, says analystWindows 8 won't become an enterprise IT standard as customers dump Microsoft's legacy PC operating system XP. Instead, corporate IT departments will stick to what they know and install Windows 7.…

Microsoft: Next WinPhone 8 update to arrive this summer

Won't be 'Blue,' but will include important featuresWe still don't know for sure what changes will arrive in Windows 8.1, the big OS update that's expected to ship as a preview in late June, but Microsoft _has_ begun teasing a few details of the next update to Windows Phone 8.…

Microsoft: YES! You can have your desktop back again for FREE!

No, no, no need to thank us - we love you allMicrosoft has confirmed that it will issue its Blue update to Windows 8 without charge, with first code scheduled at the company’s Build conference starting on June 26.…

Android is a mess and needs sprucing up, admits chief

Can Google really fix it? It isn't in control any moreComment Android looks unstoppable, and it's a mess. The first fact tends to eclipse the second observation, but Android's new supremo diplomatically acknowledges as much in an interview.…

Windows 8 'sales' barely half as good as Microsoft claims

Don't even mention the XP/Vista sales comparisonsMicrosoft claimed last week that it's made '100 million' Windows 8 sales and the claim has been widely repeated. But channel feedback and the experience on the ground point to a very different picture.…

Torvalds unveils first Linux 3.10 release candidate

Download, then be nice to your mother, Linux Lord advisesThe first release candidate for version 3.10 of the Linux Kernel is upon us.…

Microsoft honcho pleads with media: 'Stop picking on us!'

'Windows 8 is a good product ... really!'Updated Microsoft has taken quite a pounding in the press over Windows 8, and it has only intensified the rumors that the planned update to the OS might roll back some of its more controversial features. But Redmond has had quite enough now, and it wants it all to stop.…