Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

Microsoft’s Windows desktop isn’t nearly as efficient at using space as a real desktop. That’s what Anand Agarawala concluded more than five years ago, when he began to study ways to create a better ...

Windows 8 has two environments: the full screen, touch-centric Windows Store App interface (also called Metro) and the Desktop interface, which looks and acts like Windows 7. If you install programs ...

Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution. Linux ...