Windows installer is slow, reboot-heavy, ad-filled and forces online accounts and privacy toggles. Linux installs fast, ...

With the end of support for Windows 10 finally here, many have (perhaps surprisingly) opted instead to jump to Linux instead ...

In recent years, Microsoft has warmed up to Linux, which it used to see as a rival. Now, there's more use of Linux than Windows on Microsoft Azure.

You can revive your aging PC with a lightweight Linux distro such as Puppy Linux and Linux Lite. But which one should you choose?

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

What is Microsoft doing with Linux? Everything you need to know about its plans for open source Your email has been sent Microsoft is following the customers and the ecosystem, but pragmatic ...

More companies are using the threat of Linux when negotiating deals with Microsoft, one of the company's senior executives has admitted. A year after a letter from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to his ...

Microsoft Defender for Linux is coming. This is what you need to know Your email has been sent When Defender came to macOS as well as Windows, Microsoft announced that the name of the software was ...

Most U.S. businesses say there is very little difference between the cost of maintaining a Windows versus a Linux-based corporate computing environment, according to a new Yankee Group study released ...

“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” is a line from Rudyard Kipling’s The Ballad of East and West. It could also apply to Windows and Linux. If you don’t know what you’re ...

The integration of the open source platform in many facets of Microsoft means that Windows IT pros may need to update their skill sets. A few years ago, I received a rather alarming e-mail. I had just ...

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