"We are well down the road of executing our vision of making the world's cloud resources as easy to use as a single computer. When we do, we will finally realize the full revolutionary potential of ...

The control program in a user's machine (desktop or laptop). Also called a "client operating system," Windows is the overwhelming majority while the Mac comes second. There are also several versions ...

The Unix operating system is one of computing's most significant technologies, providing the framework that the familiar Linux and Mac OS X operating systems were developed on. Unix can be a viable ...

Today’s operating systems are more sophisticated and feature-rich than ever before, which makes them substantially more useful to the enterprise but also adds to security vulnerability—unless the ...

A NeXTcube computer running the NeXTSTEP operating system. Simon Claessen / Flickr Today marks the 35th anniversary of the launch of NeXTSTEP, a computer operating system launched by Steve Jobs during ...

Aditya Akella leads the project that aims to boost performance of OSes and help enable assistant robots, autonomous vehicles and smart cities. Research that will use artificial intelligence to boost ...

At the Computex event in Taipei and in a related blog post, we were teased with hints of what Microsoft envisions in a modern operating system. With constant references to a "a modern OS" that ...

Security flaws in your computer's firmware, the deep-seated code that loads first when you turn the machine on and controls even how its operating system boots up, have long been a target for hackers ...

Operating systems come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, and just a few decades ago, it wasn't uncommon to run an operating system on a computer with a clock speed of a few hundred megahertz paired ...

There is a serious deadline facing computer users at the end of this calendar year, one that places countless businesses, non-profit companies and individual users at high risk of becoming a victim of ...

Q: My 10-year-old Samsung laptop had a catastrophic crash. I took it to a local repair shop and the tech/owner said the entire drive and data could not be recovered. He also said the operating system ...