How-To Geek on MSN

BeOS was the most innovative OS of the '90s—here is how it lives on today

One of the greatest "what could have beens" in computing.
Hackaday

Do You Have An Old Hitachi Computer? You Might Just Have BeOS Without Realizing It

There was a moment in the years spanning the move from 16-bit platforms to 32-bit, during which it looked for a moment as though there might be a few new operating system contenders making a mark on ...
Ars Technica

Did Microsoft actively prevent PC vendors from preloading BeOS?

My apologies to the moderators (well, moderator I guess) if it's not appropriate here, but I thought it might create some discussion... Does the idea of license terms being trade secrets bother anyone ...
MUO on MSN

This startup's OS died fighting Windows, and Microsoft still paid $23 million

Before Microsoft paid $23 million to Be Inc. in 2003, a hidden PC partition sparked a strange legal battle.
AppleInsider

BeOS lives on, in the new Haiku OS Beta 4

Haiku OS, a modern clone of BeOS, is an interesting look back at what Apple once considered to advance its Mac operating system. In 1995, Apple's head of Apple France, Jean-Louis Gassee left Apple to ...