operating system

Seven days of Vista -- day 6: Vista arrives in London

Crave Well, the long five-year wait is over, and Microsoft's brand-spanking new operating system, Windows Vista, and Windows Office 2007 have finally been launched by Bill Gates at an event at the British Library in London.

Tags: microsoft, story, gadgets, windows vista

30 January 2007, 12:09

Rebel assault: OS X on PlayStation 3

Crave A stable, friendly operating system coupled with what is likely to be the world's most popular games console? Not only has Microsoft failed so far to set the living room on fire with its Media Center home entertainment system, but it's impossible...

Tags: apple uk, os, processor, playstation

8 August 2005, 11:50

Apple Time Machine and Seagate 750GB EHD: Sexy backups

Crave Meanwhile, Apple has unveiled a new storage app called Time Machine, for its forthcoming Leopard operating system. Time Machine works by creating 'deltas' (the changes from one version of a file to a newer version) on a separate internal or...

Tags: apple, creating, hard drive, operating system

8 August 2006, 12:05

Yoggie Pico: Security on a stick

Crave It runs a stripped-down version of the Linux operating system, has anti-virus and anti-spyware from Kasperski Labs, and Web filtering and parental controls by SurfControl. To stop the Pico itself becoming infected, the operating system is contained...

Tags: anti, virus, traffic, operating system

19 June 2007, 11:20

3.6GHz Pentium 4 Apple Mac: unholy alliance?

Crave Apple's latest OS release, Mac OSX Tiger, has been getting a lot of press recently for trouncing Microsoft's as-yet-unreleased operating system, Longhorn. We can't wait to see what it's like to run the world's most intuitive operating system on the...

Tags: apple uk, apple, operating system, intel

8 June 2005, 11:19

Top ten Apple rumours of all time

Crave The story goes that Apple realises the only thing between it and global domination is that the Mac operating system doesn't run on a generic PC. BeOS is a little-known, largely discontinued operating system that was the buzz of the mid '90s.

Tags: return, microsoft windows, surface, processors

27 December 2006, 15:32

What your favourite Web sites say about you

Crave A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.

10 September 2007, 17:27

Crave Talk: Is Nintendo the apple of Apple's eye?

Crave Apple was the first computer manufacturer to commercialise the windows- and icon-based GUI that is now used by almost every desktop operating system in the world. The Mini also runs Apple's extremely robust OS X operating system.

Tags: nintendo, mini, console, gaming

9 June 2006, 10:51

Google Android: Hands-on with the Google mobile goodness

Crave Today we managed to spend some quality time with a prototype handset running Google's highly anticipated mobile operating system, Google Android. Texas Instruments was showing it off at its stand to promote the prototype handset's processor, the...

12 February 2008, 15:12

Crave Live: Google Android hands-on video

Crave If there was one thing we were really keen to check out at the Mobile World Congress, it was Google Android, the search behemoth's mobile operating system. At the moment no-one has made a commercial phone running Android, but there are prototype...

28 February 2008, 16:52

Photos: Inside Mac OS X Leopard

Crave The biggest change to the Mac operating system is the dock, which has shed its 2D filmstrip look in place of a reflective, and 3D dock. If you've ever used the feature in Apple's iTunes jukebox software, or in the new iPods, the system works the...

30 October 2007, 16:08

GP2X: Handheld gaming gets even geekier

Crave It uses a version of the Linux operating system, dual 200MHz processors, and has a TFT screen running at a resolution of 320x240 pixels. You can also output the video signal to your TV or monitor for big-screen gaming, and if you're feeling geekish...

Tags: arcade, resolution, portable, gaming

16 March 2006, 12:12

McDonalds' free Trojan: "Would you like malware with that?"

Crave According to reports, just plugging the McDonald's sponsored USB key into a computer running Microsoft's beleaguered Windows operating system will infect the system. McDonald's: posterboy for the western world's obesity pandemic, and now the first...

Tags: usb, players, trojan, mcdonald

17 October 2006, 12:22

Vista Service Pack 1: Things Microsoft forgot to fix

Crave Don't give us that rubbish about it only being an incremental improvement -- Microsoft threw so much into XP SP2 that it was virtually a whole new operating system. Microsoft got it half right with its file-preview system.

Tags: desktops, hard drive, windows vista, flip

19 March 2008, 14:27

Testing Windows Vista SP1

Crave Most of the features touted by Microsoft are for the Business, Enterprise or Ultimate editions of the operating system. It's always good to install the latest (read: patched) code for any operating system.

19 March 2008, 12:12