From industrial control to home appliances and handheld devices, there is a continuing trend towards embedding increasing degrees of both intelligence and connectivity into all kinds of end products.

Operating systems should be invisible according to some, yet Windows XP is anything but. Visually, it's Microsoft's most innovative OS since Windows 95, making more use of graphics than ever. The ...

It’s not finished yet, and Microsoft still has plenty of work ahead of it, but one thing is clear: Windows 8 is a genuine, uncompromised tablet operating system. It was a long time coming. For many ...

A traditional operating system (OS) such as Windows, macOS and Linux facilitates user interaction with hardware through a graphical user interface and manages tasks like memory allocation and process ...

As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces in Microsoft’s Windows platform, MS-DOS helped set the stage for the company’s dominance in the PC software market. When MS-DOS was released in 1981, ...

With so much coverage and promotional attention on PlayStation 4’s lineup of Day One games, we’ve been anxiously awaiting any tasty morsel of information about PS4’s user interface and operating ...

This backs up previous comments from Mark Cerny, the lead PS5 architect, during an interview with Wired last year. It sounds like Sony is keen to blur the line between the user’s game and the console ...

Managing a non-graphical user interface operating system like DietPi or Raspberry Pi OS Lite has its fair share of advantages. You can conserve system resources and allocate them to an app or service ...