Thursday, February 9th, 2012 4:27 am

2011: 42 percent of PCs run Windows 7

Stamford (ip-192.com): Linux distributions are expected to remain niche operating systems over the next five years, capturing a market share of less than two percent because of the remaining high costs of application migration from Windows to Linux, information technology research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. says. In the consumer market, Linux will be run [...]

Java: Apple, Oracle team up through OpenJDK

Cupertino (ip-192.com): Apple and Oracle will work together through the OpenJDK project on the next Java release SE7, both companies said in a joint statement. Apple will contribute several components to the open source project, including the 32- and 64-bit Java virtual machines, class libraries, a network stack, and the foundation for a new graphical [...]

Koobface: Mac, Windows and Linux OS targeted

Sunnyvale (ip-192.com): Users that have Windows, Mac OS X or Linux installed on their computers have to watch out for a new variant of the Koobface worm that is spreading through Facebook, Twitter, Friendster, and MySpace. Antivirus firms say that the worm uses messages with a subject line like "Is this you in the video?" [...]

Will Mac OS X update kill netbooks?

Cupertino (ip-192.com): The upcoming Mac OS X Leopard 10.6.2 will not run on the Intel Atom processor, according to several news reports. The Atom processor is widely used in netbooks, a lately very popular stripped down version of a laptop. If the reports are true, Apple will break many netbooks which have been hacked to [...]