Since the dawn of time -- or, at least, the dawn of personal computers -- the holy wars over desktop operating systems have raged, with each faction proclaiming the unrivaled superiority of its chosen OS and the vile loathsomeness of all others.
No matter how fierce the language or convincing the arguments, however, these battles began to seem somewhat irrelevant to regular working stiffs. While Mac OS, OS/2, Linux and many other desktop operating systems have all had their devotees over the years, the truth is that the majority of home and business users have simply used the current version of Windows as a matter of course.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
If I had to pick two, it would be XP and Mac. I am interested in learning a new OS and mac seems like my the more appropriate choice.
I am programmers since many years. For me an operating system should be a tool to find my programs and browse my files. When an operating system is very visual, with video, preview and animations and takes a lot of resources on my PC. For me it's not an operating system but a useless games.
i want an light operating system.
The perfect system for me is a windows (for games, and programming) with the flexibility of Linux (have a light window manager) and install what you want. for programming and games ;) and resources (ram, disk space) for my programs and not to run my operating system and animation.
linux is good, i do programming in Linux too. but can't play many games.
Linux will be perfect if the game manufacturers climbed on the train,
I imagine a games on Linux games optimized operating system. all resources of the PC will be optimized for games only, no resources needs and tasks for checking the update windows, no more explorer.exe, and services are useless when plays. Only a small kernel, 3D acceleration, network communication and chat (text and voice).
The cards in Solitaire look pretty realistic on Vista
... I've used Mac's with OSX (work and school) but I didnt like it much. I prefer a PC.
However, I'm stuck with a useless 32 bit Vista (OEM), while I would prefer a 64 bits OS, so I'll probably switch over to a 64 bits version of Ubuntu soon, maybe install a dual-boot or something. Not sure yet. Depends on which programs will be able to run on Ubuntu (think Photoshop etc)
I've been using only Linux since 2000 and never looked back. I do all my gaming on my Playstation3. After gaming on a 62" HD TV with 7.1 sound a monitor just isn't the same anymore anyway.
Using Linux has led to jobs for me as well. Started as a Network Operations person, went up to Systems Admin, then Senior Systems Admin, and now I head the IT department.
I installed Linux for the first time in 1995 with Slackware. Its come a LONG way.