New Windows policies will block unvetted kernel drivers, forcing enterprises to confront hidden dependencies on legacy systems.

Wine 11 brings near-native performance to Windows games on Linux. Thanks to NTSYNC, performance bottlenecks are a thing of ...

Developers kept breaking Windows 95 with bad installers, so Microsoft built a hidden backup trick that quietly reversed the ...

Wine 11 is the biggest jump for Linux gaming in years.

The allure of free daytime power has brought savings-motivated Australians to energy expert Mamoon Reza's door. Akin to power ...

A family of five still living in a bus nearly 17 months after fire destroyed their home is urging people to ensure they are ...

Linux has two ways to do memory compression – zram and zswap – but you rarely hear about the second. The Register compares and contrasts them. Better to try to make the most of what you've already got ...

IBM OS/2 was an alternative to Microsoft Windows throughout the 1990s, but Microsoft won out in the end, and the operating system was relegated to niche use cases. Over 24 years since the final OS/2 ...

Windows 11 is a solid operating system that offers some benefits over its predecessors. It features a fresh design, solid gaming performance, and offers much better multitasking over the prior version ...

On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft announced that Windows was commercially available. Read the full story of the Microsoft operating system below. Windows 1 to 11: The ...