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    Academic says the operating systems of the future will be called Windows and Linux, no matter what they look like.

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    Just hours after the BBC said it had fixed the iPlayer streamed TV service to prevent DRM-free file downloads, a London-based programmer has bypassed the new protection.

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    The most impressive aspect of Microsoft's statement on Thursday in favour of caring and sharing wasn't in anything the company said. It was the speed at which the world, or that part of it not in a commercial relationship with Microsoft, digested the information and replied: Heard it before. Not good enough.

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    Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Novell's Ron Hovsepian make an unlikely pair, and their pact has caught the tech industry by surprise.

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    Desktop Linux software maker Lindows.com released on Thursday a version of its operating system that features support for Intel's Centrino chips for wireless notebooks.

  • Linux or Windows? You decide

    Dueling analyst firms don't settle the hottest OS issue around, but your company will cast its vote by choosing one of these network operating systems.

  • Penguin deathmatch: Red Hat vs. SuSE Linux

    Two of the year's most user-friendly Linux distributions--SuSE Linux 8.1 and Red Hat Linux 8.0--have closed the gap between Windows and Linux. But which one should you choose?

  • Torvalds: Next Linux due by June

    The next version of the heart of the Linux operating system is expected by June, according to project founder Linus Torvalds.

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