The other day Windows Central published a look at Microsoft's canceled mobile operating system, codenamed Andromeda. This was going to be the next iteration of Windows Mobile, which bit the dust.  It's too bad, because I think that Microsoft had something there with the whole Metro UI, and they could have bankrolled the OS until it caught on, but the janky transition from WM7 to WM8 to WM10

Back when I started my graduate studies, I decided to leave the Apple Newton behind (I know, sacrilege, eh?) and get a more "modern" PDA.  While my Newton did support unicode (probably the first platform to do so natively, I think), the unicode was not implemented, so typing in Greek was a pain. I had to either use Greeklish, or use the Symbol font to display contacts (which made my non-Greek

OK, not really an OS, but an RPG in the style of an old GUI OS... pretty interesting!

I've been experimenting with Linux on and off since 1999.  I was first introduced to linux when I was working at Barnes and Noble and I was working on the textbook floor with a number of other computer geeks. I think the first distro that I heard of was Slackware, but I don't think I have actually ever actually installed slackware.  I remember seeing their software boxes at stores like

Here's another old gem.  Never got OS/2 2.1, but I have boxed copies of 3.0 and 4.0 somewhere ;-)

It's been three weeks since I got the Enterprise edition from our friendly help desk (those guys rock!) and I installed it on my work computer, and aging Dell Optiplex GX620, which runs on a 3.4Ghz P4, 2GB of RAM built-in graphics and 500MB of hard drive space. Yes, I know, you must be wondering how I can get work done.  The truth is that this is my backup machine where I undertake specific

I saw this video the other day of the BlackBerry OS version 6 on the net. The two things that stroke me were (1) the non-enterprise-ness of the features shown off, and (2) the complete reliance on touch-screens. I do wonder if this means that Blackberry is going after that "fatty middle" that Palm was going after while still keeping a foot in the enterprise market. When RIM announced that they