As previously reported, Microsoft will introduce modular OS updates with Windows Vista’s Anytime Upgrade a new service which will allow users to upgrade Vista on the fly and unlock additional ...

Today, companies require infrastructure uptime of 99.999% (five nines) to maximize the performance of business-critical applications and increase productivity. Unfortunately, traditional Ethernet LAN ...

When Windows 7 launches sometime after the start of 2010, the desktop OS will be Microsoft's most "modular" yet. Having never really been comfortable with the idea of a single, monolithic desktop OS ...

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Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley is suggesting that Windows 7 will be a modular operating system, with a central core that is the OS itself, with other modules to be separately installable. Why isn't ...

Linux is a robust, scalable, modular operating system, which is extensible by anyone, and can interoperate with nearly anything. This is the power of open source. But there are other equally powerful, ...

In a publicly released deposition on Monday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said such a policy would force Microsoft to support thousands of different versions of Windows and throw the industry into ...