Look at almost any mission-critical computer system in the world—servers, workstations, embedded computers, and many more—and ...

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Microsoft is informing developers that the kernel version number for Windows 10 is going to be hiked straight to version 10 shortly. The kernel number has been out of sync with Windows release number ...

Microsoft released MS-DOS, a DOS-based operating system, in August 1981, and Windows 1.0 in November 1985. They then co-developed OS/2 with IBM as a successor to DOS, but the project ran into ...

With Microsoft embracing Linux ever more tightly, might it do the heretofore unthinkable and dump the NT kernel in favor of the Linux kernel? No, I’m not ready for the funny farm. As it prepares ...

Back in 2010, I wrote a bit about a Microsoft Research mobile project called Menlo. Part of that project involved a skunkworks team effort known as Experiment 19. At that time, my sources told me that ...

It's not a complete surprise, but it's still a little bit shocking that it's actually happening -- Windows Phone 8 will be borrowing much of its code base, including the kernel, from Windows 8. At the ...

Microsoft has owned up to the fact that Windows NT Server and Workstation share a single code kernel, despite insisting that different prices and licence conditions should apply to the two products on ...

win 7 SP 1 (fully updated / i have installed the latest Chipset/intel RST / Video / LAN / USB3 / Audio / TV Tuner drivers) anyways i have a problem ...i know this much it seems to start when ever it ...

Earlier today, we wrote that Microsoft was going to add some big new features to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, including native support for Docker containers. It turns out that that ain’t the half ...