Operating Systems

Fashion meets technology: A new era in wearables evolution

Unprecedented relationship between fashion and technology sets the wearables category on a path for accelerated long-term growth.

Windows 10 still does a lot of snooping

Security analyst Mark Burnett says Windows 10 Enterprise Edition still phones home to Redmond, and the consumer edition has even less protection

Microsoft discusses progress in Git migration

The world’s most widely used commercial software is built with open source tools

The complexity of password complexity

WannaCry was a Windows 7 phenomenon

The weakness of Windows 7’s Defender was partly to blame for the WannaCry ransomware outbreak

The ultimate Linux Trojan horse: Windows Subsystem for Linux

Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu are now available in the Windows Store, making life easier for Windows-dominant organizations to run open source software

China pays for Windows XP addiction as ‘WannaCry’ hits

1 in 5 PCs still run the ancient, obsolete OS, so infections come as no surprise

Paying the WannaCry ransom will probably get you nothing. Here’s why.

The WannaCry ransomware is built with a shoddy payment process that might result in no response, according to security researchers

Building Linux-powered devices, part 1: Making my Linux-only world a reality

To live in a Linux-only world, you have to build the devices yourself. In step one of my journey, I prepare to build a Linux-powered handheld game console.

Who’s hogging the network? Bandwidth usage on a Linux system