What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. Allowing anyone to inspect the source ...

Modern operating systems are all far more secure than their historic counterparts, but which operating system is the safest? That somewhat depends on how you use it — no operating system is “safe” if ...

Whether you’re a power user or someone who dreads that update alert, knowing when to update your device has become less clear ...

Volkswagen is stepping up the pace of its digital transformation with a plan to pool some 5,000 digital experts into a single unit that will develop "vw.os," a uniform software operating system. With ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. today will start selling a high-security version of its operating system that runs on standard chips from Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Sun’s Trusted Solaris ...

The effect is a unified operating and technology backbone where reliability, evidence, and compliance are engineered from ...

Microsoft has once and for all put the bitter taste of Windows Vista behind it by announcing that its latest desktop operating system, Windows 7, has become the fastest selling operating system in ...