Operating System news from FierceCIO

Rumors have it that Microsoft will be releasing the first service pack for the popular Windows 7 operating system toward the end of 2010, or about Q4 of this year. Using previous Windows releases as... Read more...

Research is underway to determine the possibility of leveraging virtualization in supercomputers. Funded by U.S. Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratories and the U.S. National Science... Read more...

Use of Microsoft's flagship Windows operating system dipped by 0.3 percent in December 2009, and settled at 92.2 percent as the year drew to a close. This latest dip rounds out eight months of... Read more...

Windows Azure, the cloud-based operating system that Microsoft announced just last year, is coming. Impossible to fathom just a couple of years back, Microsoft says Azure will be ready for... Read more...

If you're thinking of rewarding yourself with a new netbook with the just released Windows 7 operating system for Christmas, the latest news is that you might be better off holding off until early... Read more...

Barnes & Noble is now telling customers who have pre-ordered its Nook e-book reader not to expect delivery until the second week of December, citing strong demand as the reason, according to... Read more...

The results are in: Microsoft sold significantly more copies of the Windows 7 operating system in the week after its official launch than was achieved by Windows Vista in 2007. To be precise,... Read more...

Windows 7, the newest operating system from Microsoft, has finally launched across the globe. I've written previously about how much I loved the increased stability and faster boot-up and hibernation... Read more...

Google has a new ace up its sleeve with the release of the newest developer preview version of its Chrome web browser, unveiled last Friday. Called Native Client (NaCl), it represents an ambitious... Read more...

According to Lenovo, ThinkPad laptops and ThinkCentre desktops will boot up Microsoft's Windows 7 "up to 56 percent" faster than current Windows Vista or XP systems. Of course, detractors will scoff... Read more...