Today’s IT managers face tough choices. PCs that run fine today have an uncertain upgrade path, now that Microsoft has chosen to discontinue Windows XP. Upgrade costs associated with Vista, coupled ...

Repairable laptop maker Framework just wrapped up its '2nd Gen' event, where it made three major announcements – the most prominent of which is that it's now dipping its toes into desktop PC waters.

In announcing its new "Freedom" architecture, Mitel comes out squarely against proprietary tablets, and touts its own strategy for making desktop virtualization work with communications. They also ...

Desktop streaming is emerging as one of the most efficient ways to support this model without incurring the usual bloated desktop support costs. A growing number of vendors, including Ardence Inc., ...

One of the interesting observations I have is how people lock down on an experience with a vendor and how that perception remains unchanged unless something significant is done to change it. In ...

Putting a Chromebook in developer mode and installing the OS of your choice isn't exactly hard... Single thread linear read/write performance: SSD vs USB. With 1MB blocks, the USB sticks hold up. With ...

The annual assertion by open-source developers that the year of the Linux desktop is here may finally be more than a mere catchphrase. According to the web traffic analysis website StatCounter, Linux ...

There's a Linux desktop environment for everyone. Windows users will feel right at home with several DEs. All of these desktop environments are free. Have you found yourself itching to walk away from ...

It has taken more than a decade, but native VoIP calling is headed to the desktop as well as to the tablet and smartphone. VoIP endpoints started gaining traction in the early 2000s. Both Windows XP ...