The divide between "computer OS" and "smartphone OS" seems to be getting smaller and smaller every day. Eventually, we won't even make a distinction. Is that happening sooner than we thought? I ...

LisaGUI is a faithful reconstruction of the desktop and user interface of Apple's Lisa, the workstation that fed ideas into the early Macintosh, and it shows that there are still things to learn from ...

Despite Android's presence in nearly every corner of the tech industry, it has yet to truly establish a foothold on PC ...

Chrome OS has evolved into a major computer operating system over the years. It’s perfect for schools and web-based work, as it centers around Google’s suite of apps. Now, Google has introduced Chrome ...

Using Ubuntu Linux to import and edit photos from a digital camera. By J. D. Biersdorfer Companies are starting to see the advantages of being able to do large amounts of computing with technology ...

OS imaging and deployment tools help system administrators standardize the configurations of endpoints and onboard new computers quickly. We list the best. You need to set up all of your endpoints so ...

Long before Windows, and even before MS-DOS, Microsoft sold a Unix-based operating system it called Xenix in 1980. It was the first OS made by the company, but it eventually sold it off in 1987. On ...