Operating Systems

  • Google vs. Microsoft: Haven't we seen this movie?

    Shades of 1995: A Web-based upstart threatens to topple Windows from its throne
    By Andrew Leonard July 9, 2009

  • The long road to Longhorn

    Who knows what Microsoft's whiz-bang new Windows will look like by the time it's ready, in 2006 or beyond? In the meantime, the bloggers of Redmond will provide progress reports.
    By Scott Rosenberg December 22, 2003

  • Chips ahoy

    AMD competes with Intel, and the public wins. The right Microsoft antitrust settlement can bring the same energy back to the software market.
    By Scott Rosenberg January 16, 2002

  • Apple gilds the lily

    The new Macintosh operating system may annoy both geeks and rookies.
    By Daniel Drew Turner November 2, 2000

  • Mac OS X: As Windows as you wanna be

    Apple's new operating system has learned a few tricks from Microsoft -- and added some neat features of its own.
    By Janelle Brown October 25, 2000

  • Beware of geeks bearing gifts

    Microsoft may offer you a break on Windows Me, but that doesn't mean the upgrade won't cost you.
    By Simson Garfinkel August 4, 2000

  • Taste-testing Aqua

    Experts wonder whether Apple's Mac OS X will be the New Coke of computer-interface design.
    By Scott Rosenberg January 26, 2000

  • Do penguins eat apples?

    Once upon a time, Apple dreamed of killing giants. Today, that hope belongs to a new, open-source generation.
    By Andrew Leonard September 28, 1999

  • Briefing for a descent into computer hell

    The chilling story of a deadline-addled writer's disintegration triggered by the seven words no keyboard jockey wants to hear.
    By Steve Burgess September 1, 1999

  • What's it gonna Be?

    After nine years of building an operating system, Be is going public. But has the company figured out what it wants to be?
    By Etelka Lehoczky July 15, 1999

  • Rematch at the NT vs. Linux corral

    Testing lab invites another round of performance testing -- but Linux gurus charge the shootout is still rigged.
    By Andrew Leonard May 6, 1999

  • The free software story

    Complete Salon Technology coverage of Linux, the open-source movement and free software's ideas and personalities.
    May 4, 1999

  • 21st Log: Brief reports and tidbits from the info-sphere.

    Prank takes down anti-impeachment site; Id's Carmack loves, hates the Mac; The truth about Chinese movie-title translations; Haiku error messages surface in Microsoft courtroom!
    By Salon Tech Writers January 11, 1999

  • Martin Luther, meet Linus Torvalds

    Linux and free software challenge the Microsoft papacy.
    By Thomas Scoville November 12, 1998

  • The Microsoft defile

    'The Microsoft File' is all the dirt on Microsoft that fits between covers.
    By Scott Rosenberg September 16, 1998

  • The church of Amiga

    Why do fans of the long-eclipsed computing platform keep the faith?
    By Greg Lindsay July 23, 1998

  • User-friendly?

    Don't throw away Windows yet, a test of three approaches to installing Linux suggests.
    By Andrew Leonard June 26, 1998

  • The little operating system that could

    Microsoft, beware: Linux fans are hell-bent on world domination.
    By Andrew Leonard May 30, 1998

  • Newsreal: Muddling through

    Steve Jobs' latest spin on the "new" Apple might keep the troops in line, but can the company ever really advance again?
    By Steve Michel November 12, 1997
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