Let’s start with gaming. For years, gaming was easier on Windows, but a growing number of Linux distros are great for gaming ...

Microsoft's rollout of Windows 10 2004 has been slow. And a number of business users tend to skip the spring/H1 Windows 10 feature updates and focus on the fall/H2 ones, which are supported for longer ...

After Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, Linux-based Zorin OS coincidentally gained 780,000 users.

Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has allowed users to install a Linux distribution and run command line applications since Windows 10 first launched in 2015. Initially aimed at developers ...

During Microsoft’s BUILD developer conference, the company is highlighting new features aimed at developers, including updates to some of the geekier features the company has added to Windows in ...

The developer of Task Manager believes Windows has become a marketing tool, even as a Microsoft president boasts about ...

Microsoft Tuesday opened its annual management confab saying it would ship the next version of Operations Manager by the end of June and laying out its efforts to manage datacenters and virtualized ...

A Microsoft-commissioned study finds that companies could save up to 28 percent by developing applications with Windows instead of with a combination of Linux and Java. During her years at CNET News, ...

More companies are using the threat of Linux when negotiating deals with Microsoft, one of the company's senior executives has admitted. A year after a letter from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to his ...

Microsoft for the first time has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business in its annual filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Yes, you read that correctly: Microsoft has officially released a web browser for Linux. Ars Technica reports the software behemoth has finally released its first stable version of Edge for Linux. The ...