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 ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Windows, Android, Mavericks, iOS, these are just some of the world's most popular operating systems, and they all have at least one thing in common: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this age of smartphone zombification, it's hard to believe that there was once a time when most people had never seen or touched a computer. When I grew up in the 1970s, we didn't have a computer.