Haiku is free and open source operating system designed to be compatible with BeOS, a legacy operating system from the 1990s. Haiku itself has been under development for two decades, but it’s still considered beta software (and it only hit that state a few years ago). While there’s a relatively limited number of native apps […]
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HP brings Windows apps to its Enterprise Chromebooks (with Parallels Desktop)
This summer Google announced it was working with Parallels to let users run Windows applications on high-end Chromebooks. Now HP says it’s bringing that option ot its Chromebooks for enterprise users. The new Parallels Desktop for HP Chrome Enterprise feature allows customers to run Windows applications in a virtual machine directly on a Chromebook. There’s no […]
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CrossOver and WINE to bring (some) Windows apps to (some) Android devices
Want to run desktop Windows PC apps on your Android phone or tablet? We’ve seen developers porting classic games like Fallout to run on Android for years, and you can always install a DosBox app and try to run Windows 95 or something. But soon there may be a better way. WINE is a free […]
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Microsoft: Universal apps are Windows apps, classic apps are Desktop apps
Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 10 is an operating system designed to run on a range of devices including smartphones, tablets, notebooks, desktops, game consoles, and even the company’s upcoming HoloLens virtual reality system. While Windows will look a little different on phones than notebooks or Xbox consoles (and it’ll include different components), each version will share […]