Linux is not the same as Windows. The operating system is operated and configured differently than Windows and Windows programs cannot be started directly. With the help of virtualization or Wine, ...

Microsoft has rejected porting its Office productivity suite to Linux anytime soon, despite the growing popularity of open source on the desktop. Speaking at the LinuxWorld conference in London on ...

Linux has plenty of office suites to choose from. You'll find both open-source and proprietary options. Most of these are free to install and use. I've used Linux for ...

I haven't missed Windows at all.

Microsoft Corp. is not going to release a version of its Office suite software for open-source rival Linux, although the company is actively studying how Linux works and how it can integrate with the ...

Following a recent pilot, the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein has made the decision to move away from Microsoft products, and begin using Linux and LibreOffice on its 30,000 PCs. In a ...

What just happened? It's not just China that is replacing Windows on government PCs. Germany's most northern state, Schleswig-Holstein, has begun moving from the popular OS to Linux while also ...

As free and open source software continues to become more powerful and more prevalent, there’s less and less need to choose anything else. It’s not at all surprising, for example, to see the recent ...