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Even if you are not an Information Technology (IT) professional or expert, you know that what makes your smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer go is software referred to as operating system ...

The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.” Simon Fraser University computer scientist Toby Donaldson says Ubuntu is popular because, unlike some other versions ...

Operating systems are the underlying software that actually run your computer. There are more of those than you might think, but for the purpose of this discussion, in the world of small and medium ...

A new cloud-based operating system for all kinds of computer is being developed.

Microsoft battled Digital Research’s CP/M-based operating systems for the next few years, but as Ruffer and Waldman note, Microsoft was the leading producer of computer languages and had control over ...

Dodge7's recent thread about how he expected more from computers given the Amiga, Atari in the 1980's got me thinking about the next, possibly mythical evolutionary step in computing. And as I sit ...