Ok folks, take a seat for this one. Steve Ballmer did indeed announce the Microsoft Cloud earlier this month in what we could refer to a sudden sparkle of sanity. No matter if you believed him or not the cloud OS is upon us. And the name seems quite pleasant! We shall refer to it as the Windows Azure. This OS will probably be released together with Windows Vista 2 7, whenever that happens.

The announcement was made at this year’s Professional Developers Conference 2008 so we shall see more of it in the future. The Ballmer guy will surely enforce it. But let’s not judge beforehand! The Azure might actually work quite nice.

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect said that the “Windows Azure is a new Windows offering in the Web tier of computing, a significant extension in the company’s family of platforms.” The Azure should help all developers createm deploy, manage and distribute web services and various application through the Internet. Wow, I mean that’s just wow! Are you still sitting down? We’ll see how the Azure develop in the future.

via Microsoft

I guess this is for all Apple haters out there. Psystar, or the company selling PC with Mac OS, has called Carr & Ferrell, or the lawyers that already managed to squeeze $10 million from Apple and $60 million from Microsoft in similar cases before, to defend them against Apple, or the company pissed off at Psystar. Well pissed enough to sue Psystar for all they’ve got.
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Research in Motion has the new BlackBerry OS 4.5 ready for launch. All BlackBerries coming out this summer will have this system already installed while the rest of us, stuck with an older Berry will have to wait until September to go upgrading.

In the mean time the BIS 2.5 upgrade is on. Today, June 29th, the BlackBerry Internet Services 2.5 should have gone live and by this time you might already have downloaded it. Some of the cool stuff this upgrade brings is the ability to add and save attachments while working from your BlackBerry smartphone. As long as they are under 3MB you will be able to attach all sorts of Microsoft Office files and more. You will be able to attach video and audio too.

Wait there’s more! Push email is available. All you need is the BIS 2.5 and an AOL or Hotmail/MSN mail account and you can go pushing mail in no time.

Wait there’s more… bad news! Not all of these upgrades will work. You will need the OS 4.5 to have the BIS 2.5 working properly. Better wait to September or get a brand new RIM smartphone this summer.

via Gizmodo

The Mac OS 10.6 called the Snow Leopard will be coming in about a year, but it was revealed to those attending the WWDC. From what we hear so far, the Snow Leopard is a silent hunter. It’s rather about efficiency and optimization then about adding more cool stuff to the existing version.

The Snow Leopard will be optimized for multi-core processors and it will be GPU friendlier. It will support lots of RAM and by lots I mean the 16TB lots. Safari will be about 50% faster than it is already and a QuickTime X platform is in the works. Better and better but boring.

Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering said:

We have delivered more than a thousand new features to OS X in just seven years and Snow Leopard lays the foundation for thousands more. In our continued effort to deliver the best user experience, we hit the pause button on new features to focus on perfecting the world’s most advanced operating system.

Now how do I interpret this. Sure the OS X needs a few tweaks here and there, a new hair cut and a pair of boobs, but do you mean to tell me Apple is going to take a year to improve it without adding anything spectacular? Where’s that box people? You know, the one you’re always getting out of when you do your thinking? No more ideas?

In about 18 months Windows 7 is coming. Where’s Apple’s OS that Windows 7 should be based on? Are you guys keeping it secret? Is this Snow Leopard a base to further build on?

Palm has been generating a new generation of OS for quite some time now. There have been many speculations on what it would be named. It has been learned recently, however, that the new Palm codename inside the company is Palm Nova. Not much is known about this new OS as of current, other than Palm is reportedly beta-testing it on an unreleased Palm device. The company is developing the OS to be unveiled officially by late 2008 with the purpose of releasing the new Palm device by around February 2009.

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