Microsoft is finally taking Linux seriously as a desktop operating system, and it has designed Windows 7 to kill it Microsoft has long been worried about Linux competition in the server market. When ...

Welcome to the last day of Windows 7—the last day Microsoft is giving out security updates for the antiquated operating system, that is. While you have plenty of options for upgrading Windows 7, and ...

Canonical today published the first part of a tutorial series designed to help Windows 7 users migrate to Ubuntu Linux after Microsoft's decade-old OS reached end of support this month and stopped ...

Linux Mint beats Windows 11 in more ways than I expected, but switching still comes with real trade-offs.

This whole Windows 7 crushes or doesn’t kill Linux deal has really sparked a lot of comments and raging debates here and on Digg. I thought I’d recap and talk about some of the comments readers have ...

Desktop Linux can run on your Windows 7 (and older) laptops and desktops. Machines that would bend and break under the load of Windows 10 will run like a charm. And today’s desktop Linux distributions ...

In the mother of all grudge matches, Tom's Hardware has pitched Windows 7 against Ubuntu 11.10 in a dizzying array of benchmarks -- and the winner might surprise you. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Now is a particularly good time to ditch Windows for good, for workstations as well as servers. For instance, now that Microsoft stopped supporting Windows Server 2003 on July 13, you’ll need to find ...

Microsoft has long been worried about Linux competition in the server market. When it came to ordinary PCs and laptops, however, it knew it had little to fear. But that was then. Now Microsoft may ...