ZDNET key takeaways The Linux desktop has continued its slow growth.Linux has been making gains in no small part because of ...

Seeing the level of anger reached in some posts must have been off-putting to some onlookers still on the fence about a ...

Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media. Asay has also held a variety of executive roles with leading mobile and big data software ...

Windows 10 is gone, and millions are turning to Linux. Here are the distros benefiting most, and what makes them so great.

Like other phone handset makers, Motorola introduces new models, such as the Razr V8, which made its debut in June. Software developers are using Linux to build Web browsers, multimedia players and ...

Microsoft is making available today, October 11, a preview version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for Windows 11 in the Microsoft Store. This isn't a new version of WSL; Microsoft is just ...

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 ...

You've likely heard people talking about Linux as a more stable, secure, and customizable operating system than Windows 11. That might be hard to believe, but in some cases, it's true. If you're tired ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve been writing a series of blogs explaining that Linux has reason to fear Windows 7, because it may kill Linux’s market share. But there’s also plenty of reason for Microsoft to fear Linux, which ...

XenSource, Inc., the leader in infrastructure virtualization solutions based on the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced XenEnterprise for Windows and Linux, the market's first ...