The world has gone completely digital. We simply can not stay aloof of the advances in the digital world especially in the current circumstances when everything has gone online. An operating system is ...

Over the past few years there’ve been a number of attempts to make computers more accessible to people in developing markets. The OLPC project aimed to bring low-cost laptops to the world. Google and ...

So as you may have noticed from last episode, computers keep getting faster and faster, and by the start of the 1950s they had gotten so fast that it often took longer to manually load programs via ...

Various versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system have existed since the 1980s. While the operating system got its start on personal computers, today, versions of Windows are available for a ...

Linux is the hidden server side operating system that is at the heart of every company today. You might not have heard of it if you aren't a geek or a software engineer but it's there. Google, ...

Before the World Wide Web became ubiquitous as the de facto way to access electronic information, there were many other ways of retrieving information online. One of the most successful of these was ...

As I look at the hardware/OS system that surrounds our PCs, I find it wanting. What we should do is use virtual machines to isolate the OS from the hardware and allow a level of OS flexibility and ...