MS-DOS and 30 years
MS-DOS
In terms of innovation and technological development there is a category that has a particular accent: the progress. This is due to the temporary matrix which is anchored in the technical idea and technology. We refer, of course, to the matrix continuity, ascending and linear time allows us to understand the technique as a relative term, functional, relational, which is never still and never stops moving. This movement has a meaning, with an orientation. And the horizon is the future, where we imagine improved, made, happy.
In this context it may be off screen something like the word "past" or the word "been". What interest have been in a discussion of innovation, new, on what does not imitate any model past? Clearly, in the midst of this discussion the past can only appear with the face sentimental, with the figure of what once was and never will be.
This is the case today with the debate on the anniversary of MS-DOS, which has cumplico 30 years.
Opeartivo system was however not created exactly 30 years ago, is celebrated for what it is rather the birth of a trademark, the acquisition by Microsoft for an operating system that had been written by its developer under another name .
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Alyun OS
Alyun OS
If there is a market that is diverse, fragmented, and made an object of desire on the part of thousands and thousands of businesses, this is without doubt the market for operating systems. At some point will have been a fertile ground for investment, but after the advent of Windows, Android, IOS, to name the best known, is very difficult to get a good slice in the economic arena where competition appears to be fierce, and an intensity that there would decline to sign.
Now if this description be taken out the conclusion that this market is closed, that in this market and things are prescribed as if it were a fate would be distorted the most important aspects of the situation. And this is precisely what they understood in China to make the Asian market and launch a new operating system that will seek to shed some shadow on the body of the great competitors in the market so far have played effective demand.
We're talking about Alyun OS, a new fighter that while the attempt to disempower current OS, you do so from one type of strategy that we would call "parasite style" to the extent that has made borrowing some ideas from Android .
The operating system bet big decision to the clouds and applications. Promises in their mission statements to spare users the trouble of having to download the programs to use on your computer. Read more
To Boot Gecko (B2G), SO Mozilla
Mozilla Foundation
Is there in the world of operating systems something like a decalogue of what can and can not be done? Are you disliked by the community of developers and users to emulate the practice or copy the idea of competition? Can not read the same practice as a listening and receptivity to innovations that actually benefit the whole society of users and has been developed by another? It is very difficult to answer these questions, especially when we know that in the market, no matter what branch is, there are no clear rules, but many times the code is not written himself participants know intuitively and opaque .
These questions arise in the context of a news story these days has come to light in the little world of readers of blogs specializing in operating systems, we refer to the fact that Mozilla is in the process of producing its own operating system. And since the foundation intends to make the best possible way but we have not been able to highlight these issues, which are those that haunt the mind of every developer in creating something new.
Are there any effective global development of the OS? Or, rather, what exists is back and recycling of the old? Read more
¿Monopoly? Windows XP in business
Windows XP
In recent years, several analysts of the current market of operating systems have shown that the central and monopoly that Microsoft had been for several years and had managed to maintain over time, there was no more . The progressive positioning of IOS, the birth of several open source Linux distributions, among others, had done what seemed so far impossible to unseat the "giant".
However, this type of analysis suffers from something. In their enthusiasm for a market that actually does not have hegemonic positions and monopolistic agents, unaware of the actual existence of these, and are quick to diagnose the power of new agents in the reality of practice, only manage to make a slight shadow who stands as the axis of evil.
So a correct analysis would be one who can stay within the strict limits of reality, then claiming realism as most appropriate strategy for effective knowledge of the current state of the operating system market.
That realism would have to recognize, for example, the fundamental position that has Windows XP in the field of business, when what it is desktop. According to an analysis worthy of respect published a few days, 59.9% of computers in business are governed by this version of Windows. Read more
HP to expand the WebOS desktop
WebOS
The phenomenon of migration of technologies to different media is a fact that nobody can deny. The "transmedia" can be verified in different areas of contemporary culture. But if there is a place where these mutations occur in a paradigmatic way, that place is the operating system market and real communication in general.
It turns out that in recent days has made public the news that HP is trying to migrate the WebOS operating system designed by the manufacturer for smartphones terminals to desktop computers. For what purpose? First could stand the most immediate and most obvious: to expand its market and to offer benefits (which are confined mostly to the excellent design) to daily users who use desktop computers.
However, a market analyst now must go further. And since the market is not a space of harmony but is made up of forces in battle, more substantial reason for this decision by HP must be in their search for him a little shade to competition. In that sense, offer far greater WebOS users to makes sense to put it in relation to market participants today enjoy a dominant position: Google, Apple and Microsoft. Read more
Hyperconnectivity ¿? Dilemmas of Google Chrome OS
Google Chrome OS
In the previous post we mentioned that Google Chrome OS already has the guarantee of several laptops that incorporate the operating system. However, we also said that the peculiarity of Google Chrome OS is far from being a simple operating system with an ordinary function-ie, by opening the application usage by users beyond the connection to Internet; by Otherwise, the new "operating system" of Google would be a sort of web browser extension to the realms of the OS. The aim of Google is radically change the meaning we attach to the term "operating system". In an age where the phenomenon that has been unfolding tends more radical is the "hyper", operating systems must also change its internal structure to be the order of the day.
But the fact is that innovation often requires agents that could make use and take advantage of it to suit your requirements. So the market demands constant innovation never know if the product of a genuine need for the ususarios and consumers or an obligation imposed from outside companies.
In this case the gap is seen in the fact that the "hyper" can not be in a world where Wi-Fi has not been universalized to 100% Read more
Android multi ¿?
Android multifunction
Journalists have been privileged to attend the first keynote of the Google I / O 2011 have discussed the most genuine innovation that Google offers. We refer to the intention of expanding the functions of Android so that the operating system functions for accessories and general operation of our homes. The two tools for this are: Android Open Accessory and Android @ Home.
It would be interesting to think what implications do these two projects so far available to developers free of charge and free. Indeed, both the Android Open Accessory such as @ Home radicalized to the extreme the idea of a link between man and technology.
The first enables developers to create Android right accessories but which serve to perform different actions: discussed the example of an Android phone with a bicycle placed in fixed and their subsequent recognition by the terminal necesria application (in this case : a clock timer, for example).
The second goes further by enabling developers to create applications that enable us to control all functions with Android home, from turning on the TV, increasing the temperature of the home, cooking a meal in the microwave, etc.. Read more
New interface for Mac OS X Lion
New interface X Lion
Mac OS X Lion is without a doubt one of the riskiest bets in recent years by Apple. As we know will be an operating system that is tipped with a great enthusiasm for the tactile experience has already been experienced in cases of operating systems for smartphones. And while it is rumored that the final version of Lion will be released in June this year at WWDC 2011, so far as we could find were betas for all developers. And after the betateasters have given their opinion to the official Apple directors was then that he has made available a new trial. Here are some interface issues.
First and foremost is to say that Apple has decided, despite his tendency is incorporating tactile Lion-dispose the sliding selector of the tabs in some windows, leaving the rich feel 'touch' of IOS to turn to experience more familiar and ordinary of the buttons that are all used
Another item to note is the change that has been iCal: it looks more clear, and some elements of the window has changed from black to a gray super clear. Read more
New in Store apps for Windows 8
Windows apps store icon
Rumors. What gray matter involved. Many falsehoods and many truths are hidden behind them. Rumors make the communicative life of people. They can take the character of large anticipatory self-fulfilling prophecies, according to the happy development of a thinker of the twentieth century but also to say things that will never be certain-the famous "sold smoke" -. When the information circulating in the rumor comes on its sustancialidades polymorphous, you never know what will happen in the future. The rumor always routed to the future and anticipation. Which may or may not be disappointed.
The latter is what happened with the information in terms of rumor circulated in recent times in relation to an alleged Store Windows applications 8. What seemed to be the authoritative image of the store turned out to be a complete lie. Not so much for the bad intentions of the journalists who were responsible for spreading such news, but rather by the very structure of the leak, which is the predominant mode of access to information sources today have the bloggers.
However, we should say that not everything that was wrong. Indeed, any data that falls into the hands of the rumor, here too there was some truth verdad.Y this refers to the milestone 3 (that has leaked and by some BitTorrent trackers and private FTP). Read more
TomTom and control of user privacy
Control via GPS
The issue of privacy seems to be a problem while underground, follows every celebration of the progress of technological devices and new communication technologies, among which Internet device appears as the most important of all devices. A French philosopher said that our society is a society of sovereignty, as in times of absolute monarchies-or time-like discipline in the nineteenth and early twentieth-but we live in societies of control. People live exhibiting their intimacies and these publications are followed by the centers of economic and political power.
A little this is what is said against the social networks that make intimacy a show. We all know that any information uploaded to the web, every image posted on our Facebook wall, adds another element to the mass of information that the great centers of information and control of the companies handled daily.
Now this is confirmed by those published in recent days by TomTom.
As you know, some time ago that confirmed the suspicion that the 3G iPhone and iPad keep track of user location, as well as Android and Windows Phone.
That record is nothing innocent, since it allows to accurately track the movements of users accessing the same privacy.
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