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Windows 10 Is Microsoft’s Attempt To Win You Back — But Is It Enough?

Windows 10 is about more than the return of the Start Menu, it's Microsoft's chance at a fresh start — but is it enough to win you back?

22 January 2015
Ubuntu Core for iot

Canonical Brings Ubuntu to the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things promises to immerse us in a world of intelligent everyday objects, from tweeting table lamps to weight-watching kettles.

20 January 2015

Our Ubuntu Survey Results: Unity, Heron’s and Dual-Boots Are Popular

One week and 15,000 responses later, the results of our Ubuntu at 10 Reader Survey are finally ready to serve up. And they make for some fascinating mid-morning coffee-break reading.

26 October 2014

Microsoft Announces Windows 10 – One Platform for All The Devices

Microsoft today ended speculation on what it plans to call the next version of Windows. After the success of 7 and the muted enthusiasm that greeted 8, get ready for, er, Windows 10.

30 September 2014
utopic unicorn 14.10

First Beta for Ubuntu 14.10 Flavors Released

The family of Ubuntu flavors have released their first Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn beta.

28 August 2014

The Justice League of Linux: If Distros Were Superheroes

If Ubuntu-based Linux distributions were comic book superheroes, who would be what and why? That's the question I've been mulling over for the last half hour.

17 August 2014

Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Introduces Ubuntu Unity-Style Search Feature

Amongst the multitude of changes shipping in Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite is a search feature that Ubuntu users will find vaguely familiar...

2 June 2014

Samsung Unveils First Tizen Smartphone — Should Ubuntu Be Worried?

The very first Tizen-powered smartphone is to go on sale in Russia later this year.

2 June 2014

Ubuntu Devs Propose Creating Separate ‘Unity 8 Desktop’ Flavor to Aid Development

The creation of a new Ubuntu flavour based on Unity 8 has been mooted by the Ubuntu Desktop Team, with an eye to speeding up development.

14 May 2014
Ubuntu for Android

Canonical No Longer Developing Ubuntu for Android

A recent bug report filed against the Ubuntu website claims that Ubuntu for Android, first demoed in 2012, is 'no longer in development'.

29 April 2014
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Elementary OS ‘Isis’ Demoed With Blistering Speed

With Ubuntu placing all of its eggs in a 'convergence' shaped basket, it's left to smaller Linux distributions to push forward the more traditional desktop paradigm that most users are comfortable with.

8 April 2014

First Ubuntu Tablets To Launch This Autumn

Tablets running Ubuntu will hit the market 'simultaneously' with the first Ubuntu smartphones, Mark Shuttleworth has said.

20 March 2014