the vast majority of desktop, laptop and server CPUs are still based on the x86 architecture. How that came to be is no secret, of course: IBM chose the Intel 8088 to power its model 5150 PC back ...

More than a year after IBM’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sam Palmisano challenged his company to move to the Linux desktop by the end of 2005, IBM has significantly toned down its ...

IBM hopes that disillusionment with Vista and uncertainty about Microsoft's long-term roadmap will create an opening for Linux to emerge as a stronger contender in the desktop market. The Linux ...

This is a major driving force behind IBM's latest desktop PC, the ThinkCentre S50 'ultra small', which the company says is the smallest it has ever made. The ThinkCentre S50 'ultra small' has a ...

IBM today announced a VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) offering aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, a play that could lure holdouts to abandon or at least supplement raditional device ...

IBM Monday debuted Virtual Desktop for Smart Business, the company's first desktop virtualization product targeting SMBs. The new software, which allows Windows or Linux desktops to be hosted and ...

NEW YORK--IBM on Monday announced new software intended to take on Microsoft in the market for desktop business applications. The new software, part of IBM's Lotus Workplace strategy, is a bundle ...

"You still have full-height PCI slots, you still have a desktop hard drive, you still have internal power supply," he explained. "It's just smaller." IBM is marketing its Lilliputian PC to a new ...

The new IBM SmartCloud Desktop Infrastructure solutions are designed to help enterprises better manage the rising trend toward employees taking their own electronic devices to work, also known as ...

Here’s how it works. Just over 43 years ago, the dawn of a new era started when IBM launched the first true personal computer, the 5150 which I fondly remember by its moniker, IBM PC.