12 years ago on August 6th 1997 Steve Jobs shocked attendees at Macworld in Boston by announcing a partnership Microsoft. This video is one that brings back a lot of memories and always makes me laugh. When it comes to working with Microsoft, Apple fans are not exactly the most enthusiastic of people. And the [...] Read more »

Today Linux turns 15 years old! It all started with Linus Torvalds becoming upset that he could not access his universities Unix server they way that he wanted to.  He decided to write his own little bit of code that then became the basis for all that we know as Linux. The whole project ended [...] Read more »

The history of operating systems is a pretty amazing one especially when you can see many of them together and compare them.  Webdesigner Depot has an excellent article on the history of OS interface design showing the various GUI based operating systems. One thing that is extremely evident when looking at the various designs is [...] Read more »