Emil Protalinski has been reading the tea leaves: Believe it or not, Windows 7’s successor(s) have been in the planning and early development stages for a while now. … We’ve been watching closely to ...

News of a leak about Microsoft’s Windows 8 sure has stirred something over the Internet. Some say Windows 8 won’t happen until Windows 7 is perfected and others say that Microsoft has already begun ...

Sixty-four-bit computing is here and available to systems builders now. Although recent advances in 32-bit processors have been impressive, the idea of data coursing through 64-bit wide registers at ...

The subject says it all. A few friends and I had an argument over this a few months past, and I don't think I ever figured out which it was. My current opinion is that it's a 64-bit system with a ...

Do you remember the jump from 8-bit to 16-bit computing in the 1980s, and the jump from 16-bit to 32-bit platforms in the 1990s? Well, here we go again. We double up again, this time leaping from ...

Linux remains overmatched in the 32-bit world on the desktop. There is just too large a base of Windows users and related applications for Linux to dominate the market in a reasonable period of time.

COMMENTARY--Unlike most areas of the technology business, 64-bit computing has somehow remained immune to the forces of commodity competition. Most 64-bit systems have historically been tied to ...

Back in the days before computers, when people talked about bits they were talking about twenty-five cents. But in today’s computer world, 32-bit refers to the number of bits (the smallest unit of ...

IT is rediscovering a simple but nearly forgotten principle: Throughput and capacity are everything. It hardly matters how fast the processor is if, like a Ferrari in city traffic, it bogs down every ...

Windows 7 is not even out the door yet and rumors are already circulating about the next version of Microsoft’s OS, Windows 8. According to Microsoft employee Robert Morgan, future iterations of ...