However, one OS is hoping to draw the Windows crowd by being so alike Windows that it's hard to tell the two systems apart. It's called Winux, and it just received its 11.25.12 update just in time for ...

Ever wondered what owning a computer in the 1980s was like? Outside of nostalgia, it wasn’t the best. Until 1984, unless you were in some kind of strange lab or university, nearly everything was ...

It should come as no surprise that Windows is a massive operating system. Most people use it mainly to download and install apps or games like your web browser or other productivity apps. However, ...

The dwm.exe process is the Desktop Window Manager, which is responsible for the visual effects and user interface in Windows. If your Event Viewer’s log says that dwm.exe is the faulting application, ...

Aug. 12—On Aug. 12, 1928, an ambitious young man named Walt Disney filed a copyright application for Mickey Mouse, a new animated character he'd created alongside animator Ub Iwerks. That turned out ...

Considered by many to be just a dull output for sequential text, the command-line terminal is a veritable canvas to the creative software developer. With the cursor as the brush, entire graphical user ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Breast cancer poses a significant global health challenge, requiring improved ...

PC users who want to relive the nostalgia of an older Windows interface can download the free Linux distribution Q4OS and install the XPQ4 G UI. The GUI makes it possible to activate different ...

On the way to autonomous AI, Microsoft announced an early access research preview of "computer use" for Copilot Studio wherein AI agents visually interact with any app or website -- clicking, typing, ...

Microsoft’s earliest employees took a photo in 1978 that shows just how much has changed in the now-50 years since the company was founded. The photo was taken when the company was based in ...

Over the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be needed "for most things" in the world, says Bill Gates. That's what the Microsoft co-founder and ...