Windows 1.0 did set the stage for Microsoft to take the OS market by storm, however, and it introduced some iconic features ...

This special report marks the 40th anniversary of Microsoft Windows, which launched on November 20, 1985, and traces its four ...

Today’s operating systems are conceptually upside-down. They developed the hard way, gradually struggling upwards from the machinery (processors, memory, disks and displays) toward the user. In the ...

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Google Inc. is taking its competitive efforts directly to the core of software giant Microsoft Corp. , by introducing a competing computer-operating system for PCs. In a blog ...

How many times have you been asked what operating system version you use, and you haven’t got a clue? The question is often asked when you’re seeking technical support for software or hardware issues, ...

Puter is a web service that provides a complete operating system with a desktop and apps that run directly in the browser.

You’re not really supposed to love an operating system. It’s like your car’s hydraulic system, your digestive system or the global financial system. It’s supposed to do its job — and not get in your ...