The divide between "computer OS" and "smartphone OS" seems to be getting smaller and smaller every day. Eventually, we won't even make a distinction. Is that happening sooner than we thought? I ...

Abstractions are the keystone of the dynamic ecosystem of information and communication technology. You can think of them as allowing you to drive a car without understanding how the engine or ...

I've used nearly every possible desktop operating system known. I've experienced nearly every incarnation of Windows and MacOS, I've used just about all the various Linux distributions over the years, ...

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 ...

LisaGUI is a faithful reconstruction of the desktop and user interface of Apple's Lisa, the workstation that fed ideas into the early Macintosh, and it shows that there are still things to learn from ...

Is that an old Windows system or a current Chrome OS computer? Google's getting ready to blur the lines of desktop computing in some seriously shape-shifting ways. Google’s Chrome OS platform has come ...

A system snapshot ensures you always have the means to restore. Some operating systems have built-in tools for automatic snapshots. If your OS doesn't include a built-in tool, you should install one ...