Operating systems have to strike a balance between supporting older technologies, and avoiding unnecessary bloat from accumulated components over the decades. Which is why developers like Microsoft or ...

Apple has released developer betas of macOS 15 Sequoia, iOS 18, iPadOS 18, watchOS 11, tvOS 18, and visionOS 2, with public betas available now (turn them on in System Settings/Settings > General > ...

Microsoft is reviewing its approach to artificial intelligence in Windows 11 following sustained criticism from users over ...

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 ...

Fedora 40 beta is available to download and test. It's hands-down the fastest iteration of the OS I've ever tried. The GNOME Global Search feature is misleading, in that it doesn't always search the ...

What was Microsoft’s best Windows operating system of all time? If you’re like us, you have…opinions. Even if you’re not the type to parse through all of the little details that separated Windows 98 ...

Google's Android mobile operating system is open source, which means anyone can, in theory, build their own mobile operating system based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Why, then, are ...

Solid-state disk (SSD) drive architecture can play a big role in how fast a computer boots up and performs. But how big a role the SSDs play — and how much faster an operating system is — depends as ...

They’ve closed down these “windows” for the last time. As of October 14, 2025, Microsoft’s Windows 10 has reached the end of its usable life, prompting an outpouring of tributes from tech-heads ...