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UNIX vs. Linux vs. Windows: 4 Key Comparisons

IT Toolbox

UNIX, Linux, and Windows are operating systems with GUIs, hardware support, networking, and file management. The post UNIX vs. Linux vs. Windows: 4 Key Comparisons appeared first on.

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DOJ suit over Apple iPhone cites failures of Amazon Fire Phone and Microsoft Windows Phone

GeekWire

That’s due in part to repeated references and comparisons in the suit to the DOJ’s prior antitrust case against Microsoft over its Windows monopoly in the late 1990s. Barriers are so high that Google is a distant third to Apple and Samsung despite the fact that Google controls development of the Android operating system.

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Microsoft warns of critical Windows DNS Server vulnerability that’s ‘wormable’

The Verge

Microsoft is warning of a 17-year-old critical Windows DNS Server vulnerability that the company has classified as “wormable.” Windows DNS Server is a core networking component. Researchers at Check Point discovered the security flaw in Windows DNS and reported it to Microsoft back in May. Image by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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iPhone 14 Pro beats Steam Deck in Basemark's new GPU benchmark

TechSpot

Basemark claims its latest graphics benchmarking software — GPUScore: Sacred Path — is the first to offer cross-platform comparisons. It lets users and businesses directly compare the horsepower of Windows systems, Android devices, iPhones, and more.

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Epic v. Apple turns into Windows v. Xbox

The Verge

The market is also much smaller: tens or hundreds of millions sold, compared to “billions” of Windows devices. Windows computers, according to Wright, are “general-purpose” devices. Wright made a point of discussing all the different ways that users could get apps on Windows.

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‘X,’ rated: Twitter’s new branding is called a rip-off and worse as bird goes bye-bye

GeekWire

Musk’s X appears to be the same as that used for the X Window System, “a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems,” as Wikipedia puts it. That system has nothing to do with Microsoft Windows, by the way. The new X logo is literally the ?

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Microsoft Office, Windows, and cloud boosts Q1 2022 earnings

The Verge

Microsoft might have just launched Windows 11 earlier this month, but in the months ahead of this new version of Windows, PC sales have started to decline in the US due to supply issues. That doesn’t seem to have impacted Microsoft’s Windows revenues, though. Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Studio.

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