Tag: Windows 8

• Do desktop computers have a future?

  The market for desktop computers is in desperate trouble (and that for laptops not much healthier) – the latest sign being the decision to take Dell private. The issue is not that we don’t need desktops and laptops anymore, but rather that we do not need new ones: while Moore’s Law continues to increase the […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  February 5, 2013

  Uncategorized

  Central processing unit, Dell, Desktop computer, Laptop, Linux, Microsoft, Personal computer, Windows 8

• Windows 8: the verdict is in

  My eldest daughter got a laptop for Christmas and, of course, it came with Windows 8 pre-installed. This evening she asked me to replace that with Linux. Having used Windows 8 on her machine I am left wondering what is the problem with Windows 7 that it is trying to fix? Maybe all those tiles […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  February 3, 2013

  Uncategorized

  Linux, Windows 7, Windows 8

• The year of Linux on the desktop?

  For many who work or research in the industry, desktop computers have an “end of history” feel about them. The improvements in technology that allow chip makers to double the number of transistors in a given area of silicon every 18 – 24 months are still there but “Moore’s Law” as we understand it – […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  October 10, 2012

  Uncategorized

  Apple, Desktop computer, Desktop Linux, European Commission, Linus Torvalds, Linux, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Windows 8

• Should we all be worried by Windows 8?

  It is not so long ago that I wrote here that Microsoft were no longer the enemies of free software. News I have read today makes me wonder if I was worse than premature in that judgement. Allegedly, Microsoft are proposing to make it more or less impossible to boot your computer with any software […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  October 21, 2011

  Uncategorized

  Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Windows 8