It took Napster and the other music sharing sites to give P2P a sexy, mainstream edge but a decade earlier P2P meant network operating system. The concept was simple: P2P operating systems allowed users to share resources (a euphemism for the...
Object orientation has steadily grown in strength, placing great emphasis on building models that reflect the problem domain while being minimally distorted by mundane practical considerations. Microsoft is able to take a long view, using extremely...
Apple Computer has become a target for new attacks… The appearance of a rootkit109 called Opener in October 2004 serves to illustrate the growth in vulnerability research on the OS X platform… The various OS X vulnerabilities allow attackers to...
Next up will be co-operation in a number of other domains: storage software and hardware; unified systems management; web services standards for messaging and event-tracking; and Windows terminal services which let PCs act like thin clients by...
While Linux has made considerable inroads in the server world and Apple has been able to substantially boost its market share in the consumer market, the corporate desktop remains solidly in Microsoft's domain.
Software may transfer more easily from one domain to another but there won't be any guarantees of compatibility. Bruggeman declined to share specifics about which internet-connected devices might employ the operating system, but he did mention TVs...