Windows Phone 8.1 surprisingly great
Windows Phone 7 was Microsoft's belated entry in the smartphone wars, ushering in cool new design trends without making a huge impact on the business. Windows Phone 8 was a disappointment. But the...
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Play it now: RadOS
The age of obsequious, infantilizing, anthropomorphic operating systems—think Clippy and his cohort—may be a dim comic memory, but it's helped inspire an entire (though brief) generation of art and...
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Did I really just switch from Mac to Windows?
[This ran on Sunday in my weekly newsletter, The Magnet] I bought my first computer, an Apple ][e, in early 1985. I think the total price (including the monitor and external 5 ¼" floppy disk drive) was...
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New operating system only runs Tetris
Tetris-OS is an operating system that has just one job: to run Tetris, Alexei Pajitnov's classic puzzle game, and run it well. The creator, jdh, specifies… Features:° It's Tetris.° 32-bit (x86)° Fully...
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MacOS on the iPad Pro would be nice but iPadOS still has its charms
With the iPad Pro now using the same core M1 hardware as MacBooks and iMacs, the shortcomings of iPadOS are standing out in sharp relief. Monica Chin states it bluntly: Put macOS on the iPad, you...
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Windows 11 unveiled
The Verge's Tom Warren covers the leak of Windows 11, which looks cleaner and simpler than the current version — see out the perspective-less new logo — but remains the same labyrinth of...
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A refined 90s-style operating system you can actually use
SerenityOS (github) is "a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core", wedding the simplicity and style of Windows 9x with all the features (and security) you'd expect from a...
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Windows 95 launch event, with Bill Gates and Jay Leno, posted online
Blue OS Museum claims this complete tape of the Windows 95 launch event is the first time it's been put online. It's fully of remarkable moments, some I'm sure I've never seen. A classic hit, the...
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Windows XP Delta Edition revives the world's second-most beautiful OS ever
Windows XP Delta Edition is not one of those web-based aesthetic dream OSes evoking a more perfect inflection point at the cusp of the new millennium. Nor is it a clever theme for Linux evoking a...
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CP/M is now open-source for real
CP/M, the more capable of the two operating systems offered for the popular Amstrad CPC range of home computers, is now unequivocally open-source. Though it has been purportedly open source for some...
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Gallery of vintage OS desktop screenshots
A long stare at this collection of screenshots of vintage computer OS desktops has me thinking that while we've improved many things about the user experience, we made a deluxe mistake adding more than...
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Bazzite is a Linux distro for gaming
Bazzite is a cut of Linux customized to be ready for playing games, including Steam integration and compatibility with popular handhelds. Bazzite comes ready to rock with Steam and Lutris...
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