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The kernel plays an essential role, as it manages how your phone, tablet, and PC's hardware and operating system.

Windows 11 is the current version of Windows, and it’s one of the best Windows versions ever released. It draws on its ...

Trusted operating systems seal up systems vulnerabilities like never before. But the complexity of the systems can lead even experienced administrators to create more problems than they solve. For ...

Oracle has been subsuming operating system functions like memory and storage management for years; subsuming the whole operating system was just the next logical step.

What Is the Most Secure Operating System? Not all operating systems are built the same, and some have to deal with more threats than others.

In honor of Microsoft's 50th anniversary, we've ranked the best Windows consumer operating systems Microsoft has ever shipped, in order from worst to best.

First Operating System with Federated AI According to research by dataMatters, urbanOS is the world’s first operating system to integrate a Federated AI (Federated Learning) from the outset.

Members of the open-source community can now contribute code to Fuchsia, an experimental operating system that Google LLC has been developing over the past four years. Fuchsia first appeared with ...

A powerful BOS has a coherent philosophy that links to the company’s strategy and helps the business address critical performance levers that will drive long-term success.

Linux has long provided an outstanding operating system for a wide range of users in a variety of settings. However, high-performance computing users, who must run applications on thousands of ...