No other OS has come close to this level of integration between web and desktop.
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Mac experts, for instance, can be seen using keystrokes and multi-touch gestures to move from app to app and trigger other OS-level actions.
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No one would accuse Samsung or other Chrome OS supporters of hardware overkill: the Chromebox Series 3 and other Google-based PCs often carry just enough processing grunt to browse the web properly.
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After launching last October on Windows 8, the outfit is showing Microsoft's other major OS a bit of love today.
Other Palm OS devices set for the coming months include Palm 's ( nasdaq PALM) Tungsten T wireless device and Garmin 's (nasdaq: GRMN - news - people ) iQue, which includes GPS capability.
The problem is BlackBerry has talked about licensing its OS to other device makers.
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Depending on the version of OS or other conditions, users cannot use the application.
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The company also has no plans to develop Palm OS for other systems, he says.
And like the other PDAs using Palm OS 5, it will play MP3 music files and can record voice notes.
Accelerator goes beyond just location to factor in the browser, OS and other criteria that could affect a data packet's journey.
Tizen's mostly likely rival will be Ubuntu, at least once that other Linux-based OS progresses beyond entry-level phones at some point in 2014.
He says the first 4G tablet will come from Motorola , with a 10.1 inch screen, Nvidia Tegra processor and Android Honeycomb OS. Other tablets are coming.
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Like other instant-on OS's, it will integrate with Windows and give you access to things like music, photos and other files, as well as provide all the basic apps you need.
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This is all a part of Adobe's "Project Primetime" which it expects to roll out in full across iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS and other platforms later this year, check the blog post linked below and video after the break for more details.
While it will continue to count on Google, at least indirectly, for its tablet OS, most other traces of the Brin and Page powerhouse have been erased.
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While we're primed and ready for Android to take over the mobile marketplace, it looks like Steve Horowitz, Google's engineering director for the upstart OS, has other thoughts -- he's bailing out for Coupons, Inc.
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Stepping up to that plate, the folks at PC Perspective loaded up Vista on a pair of ATI and NVIDIA-based gaming rigs to see if one played more nicely with the OS than the other.
With gaming controls on either side, there is no mistaking this Palm OS handheld for anything other than a gaming platform.
While Smartisan OS may sound like just another launcher so far, the amount of care gone into the fine detail in other areas should justify its "OS" moniker.
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The reason, at least in part, that there was so much written for Microsoft OS was that it was such a popular OS. And as other OSes become more popular then I would expect to see attention being paid to writing malware for them.
If you're thrilled by dual-core processors, extremely high-res screens, large camera sensors, customizable widgets, expandable storage, USB mass storage and other such features, then you'll be better off with Android or -- to a slightly lesser extent -- iOS, because that cutting-edge stuff is currently absent on Redmond's OS. On the other other hand, if you want to be part of a carefully crafted, simple and generally happy emerging ecosystem, then look no further.
But Miller points out that the iPad, and the iPhone OS in general, has other security disadvantages.
You can choose to customize as little or as much of your instances as you would like, including customizing the hardware, OS, disk, and other configuration options.
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But it has turned out to be an important milestone in the platform's development, and the first version of the OS that is suitable for anyone other than Apple's base of early adopters.
To be fair, Apple too is quick with its own spec comparisons, but because Cupertino controls the entire platform from hardware to OS to APIs to cloud and other services, they have a much greater playing field on which to innovate.
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The other big news is Ubuntu Light, which is Canonical's take on an instant-on OS, and is targeted directly at OEMs for use on netbooks and other mobile devices.
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To an extent, Chrome OS and its host hardware compliment each other.
Other than the update already delivered for computers running OS 10.6 and 10.7 Apple recommends users on 10.5 and earlier disable Java in their browser preferences.
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But having 50 or 500 apps that run in one ecosystem and not the other is certainly going to influence your hardware and OS choices over the coming years.
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In fact, Firefox OS is one of a handful of other web-based mobile platforms launching this year, including Tizen from Samsung and Intel, Sailfish from Jolla and Ubuntu from Canonical (in 2014).
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