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open Microsoft pulls the plug on WordPad, the world's least favorite text editor 98
open Code archaeologist digs up oldest known ancestor of MS-DOS 45
open What if Microsoft had given us Windows XP 2024? 108
By navarac
open Windows keyboards to get a Copilot key – but how quickly will users jump? 84
open Windows boss takes on taskbar turmoil, pledges to 'make Start menu great again' 131
By unaware
open In surprise move, Gentoo Linux starts offering binaries 14
By ldo
open Valve celebrates New Year by blowing off Steam support for Windows 7 and 8 20
open Windows 11 unable to escape the shadow of Windows 10 108
open War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape 224
open Windows 12: Savior of PC makers, or just an apology for Windows 11? 199
By druck
open Asahi's Fedora remix dazzles and baffles on Apple Silicon 55
By a7i3n
open Microsoft prescribes command-line surgery for HP Smart app malady 15
open Microsoft offers rollback for those affected by Windows wireless futility 21
open Debian preps ground to drop 32-bit x86 as separate edition 22
By Rattus
open Doom is 30, and so is Windows NT. How far we haven't come 264
By Rattus
open Microsoft puts the 'why?' in Wi-Fi with latest Windows patch 37
By Kurgan
open CLIs are simply wizard at character building. Let’s not keep them to ourselves 176
open Linux Kernel of the Beast 6.6.6 exorcised by angelic 6.6.7 update 40
By cdrcat
open Linux Mint 21.3 and Zorin 17 are beta buddies 18
open Microsoft floats bringing a text editor back to the CLI 131
By sin
open Kernel kerfuffle kiboshes Debian 12.3 release 29
open Microsoft to intro dedicated mode for Cloud PCs 28
open Messed up metadata could be to blame for Microsoft's Windows printer woes 25
open Systemd 255 is here with improved UKI support 108
open Microsoft's code name for 64-bit Windows was also a dig at rival Sun 55
By Bebu
open Red Hat greases migration to RHEL for CentOS 7 holdouts 21
By fnusnu
open Microsoft confirms Smart App issue renaming everyone's printers to HP 56
open Steam client drops support on macOS, but adds it on Linux 27
open Cinnamon and KDE sync version numbers in desktop sibling rivalry 9
By JulieM
open Small but mighty, 9Front's 'Humanbiologics' is here for the truly curious 46
By jake
open HP printer software turns up uninvited on Windows systems 59
By I.S.
open Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org 49
open Microsoft opens sources ThreadX under MIT license 22
open Tiny11 shrinks Windows 11 23H2 down to pocket size 54
By Nik 2
open Data-destroying defect found after OpenZFS 2.2.0 release 32
open Do we really need another non-open source available license? 70
open Revival of Medley/Interlisp: Elegant weapon for a more civilized age sharpened up again 90
By MarkMLl
open Rocky Linux and Oracle Unbreakable Linux also hit 9.3 9
open Microsoft unleashes Copilot preview on Windows 10 insiders 9
By navarac
open Will anybody save Linux on Itanium? Absolutely not 82
open Ubuntu Budgie switches its approach to Wayland 50
open Linux Deepin's big brother claims it's hit three million installs 5
open Copilot coming to Windows 10 to help navigate the OS's twilight years 50
open Windows users can soon ditch Bing, Edge, other bundleware – but only in the EU 87
open Canonical intros Microcloud: Simple, free, on-prem Linux clustering 30
open RHEL and Alma Linux 9.3 arrive – one is free, one merely free of charge 20
open SUSE CTO talks about OpenELA and keeping customer trust 8
open Ubuntu for Arm64 laptops (plus RISC kit) 3
By jglathe
open Canonical shows how to use Snaps without the Snap Store 73
By kalibey
open Fedora 39 waves goodbye to modularity, but has enough spins to make your head spin 21
By JoeCool