We are approaching a new turning point in the smartphone market: you’ll buy a smartphone and will be offered the chance to install not different Android ROMs, but different operating systems on it. That’s what Xiaomi will offer next December 3rd when it makes available Windows 10 to their Mi 4 customers in China. This …
Category: Operating Systems
Canonical wants to get thing right before releasing it Your next PC will be your smartphone. That’s the idea Mark Shuttleworth – creator of Ubuntu and founder of Canonical- sold us on October 31st, 2011. The convergence dream was very real, but the plan failed. Ubuntu didn’t deliver that promise on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (April’14) …
Within a year, OEMs will only be able to ship PCs with Windows 10. Windows 10 market share isn’t for sure what Microsoft expected at this point. With a 7.94 percent (6.63% on Sept’15), it’s a little disappointing that Windows XP systems are still far from W10 with a 11.68 percent. The free update from …
Four days. Google’s answer to WSJ report comes a little late. As if the people at Google themselves needed to meet and focus on the official statement. Strangely enough that statement doesn’t deny what the Journal discovered, and they confirm that they have “been working on ways to bring together the best of both operating systems“. …
Apple gives the iPad a lot of love as iOS goes back into spit-and-polish mode. Today users will be able to upgrade to the final version of iOS 9. There are no big announcements here, but it doesn’t matter because there are several little enhancements overall. I’ve not tested it, but if you want to …
Windows RT users get some love from Microsoft, which is nice. I don’t think there will be much more updates on that OS now that Windows 10 is a unified system that works across different platforms and architectures. No universal apps for Windows RT, no Continuum, no unified Store, but at least they can enjoy …