Windows powers over a billion PCs, making it by far the most popular desktop operating system on earth. This also means it works with the most hardware and software of any OS, too.

For decades, Microsoft Windows and the open source Linux operating system were polar opposites. Windows was developed by the biggest software company in the world, one that was no friend to open ...

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Obviously, no operating system is perfect, but with minimal annoyances in this round of Linux testing, Halamka has proven that Linux provides a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows on the ...

CIO.com reported on Halamka’s experiences using each operating system and about their future in his enterprise in Windows vs. Linux vs. OS X.

The vast majority of users consider the computer Operating System (OS) to be a commodity i.e. just a piece of infrastructure that has to be there, but not an entity that might influence the way we ...