Windows powers over a billion PCs, making it by far the most popular desktop operating system on earth. This also means it works with the most hardware and software of any OS, too. Windows has had ...

WSL essentially translates commands meant for the Linux kernel---the core part of the operating system that talks to hardware---into commands for the Windows kernel.

Corrections: A Software Populist Who Doesn’t Do Windows An article last Sunday about the Linux operating system Ubuntu, using information from its maker, Canonical, referred erroneously to ...

CIO.com reported on Halamka’s experiences using each operating system and about their future in his enterprise in Windows vs. Linux vs. OS X.

Obviously, no operating system is perfect, but with minimal annoyances in this round of Linux testing, Halamka has proven that Linux provides a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows on the ...

The vast majority of users consider the computer Operating System (OS) to be a commodity i.e. just a piece of infrastructure that has to be there, but not an entity that might influence the way we ...