Operating systems are the underlying software that actually run your computer. There are more of those than you might think, but for the purpose of this discussion, in the world of small and medium ...

We've come so very far in the way computer operating systems treat us, and in the way we treat those computer operating systems. They multitask, they animate, they reach into the internet and pull ...

Dodge7's recent thread about how he expected more from computers given the Amiga, Atari in the 1980's got me thinking about the next, possibly mythical evolutionary step in computing. And as I sit ...

A new cloud-based operating system for all kinds of computer is being developed.

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Microsoft battled Digital Research’s CP/M-based operating systems for the next few years, but as Ruffer and Waldman note, Microsoft was the leading producer of computer languages and had control over ...

Ask any hardcore home lab enthusiast about their hardware configuration, and you’ll probably hear tales involving server rigs ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) -China has released its first homegrown open-source desktop operating system, named OpenKylin, state media said, as the country steps up efforts to cut reliance on U.S ...

The operating system (OS) is the backbone of your computer. If the OS is compromised, attackers can take over your computer -- or crash it. Now researchers have developed an efficient system that ...

New York Times writer Joe Nocera argues that the Windows operating system doesn't matter any more, because webapps are rendering all operating syste ...