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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Dual OS could dilute Windows dominance, if Microsoft doesn’t kill it first Dual OS could dilute Windows dominance ...

Maybe you’ve grown tired of your current laptop or desktop operating system and you just want to try something different. Or maybe you need to use multiple OSes for work. Either way, the need for a ...

For better or worse, my iPad Pro is my main computer. Since Apple released its 2018 iPad Pro alongside the newly rebranded iPadOS 13, I have been using it as my main form of computing. The reason I ...

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Check out these unique alternative operating systems you can install on your computer, from the sublime to nostalgic to the bizarre. While there are no absolute definitive answers here – everyone's ...

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 ...

China's first home-grown open source desktop operating system (OS) openKylin has launched a new version for artificial intelligence (AI) personal computers (PCs), as the country ramps up efforts to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. About a month ago, I decided to get rid of my trusty old laptop I had been using for years for ...

Researchers encoded six files into DNA: a full computer OS, a movie, a $50 Amazon gift card, a computer virus, a Pioneer plaque, and a 1948 study by information theorist Claude Shannon. I'm PCMag's ...