Linux hits 5% of desktop OSes in the US, Apple's share grows — and Windows slowly falls, according to StatCounter.

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Microsoft's DocumentDB joins the Linux Foundation, ensuring open governance, PostgreSQL roots, and stronger community-driven ...

As much as I love Linux, there are always one or two apps that I simply have to run under Windows for whatever reason. Sure, ...

The latest report shows that switching to Windows 11 for one diehard group of users, gamers, is inching up (but there’s a way to go).

Microsoft describes Linux as an operating system similar to Windows, but “open source and fully customizable.” According to the instructions, Linux can be installed in four steps.

Linux can replace Windows, but not everywhere. Switching is ideal and even improves security if you don’t need to run current or future software like Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ...

Linux is common in dev and web hosting environments, but the year of the Linux desktop is probably never going to arrive. You can, however, run Linux inside Windows, and that's what Microsoft ...

Microsoft is open-sourcing its Linux Integration Services Automation image-testing service for everyone. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor May 14, 2025 at 5:51 a.m. PT ...

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Microsoft researchers have discovered a hybrid Windows-Linux botnet that uses a highly efficient technique to take down Minecraft servers and performs distributed denial-of-service attacks on ...