Nearly a decade ago, Ars testing found that Valve’s “Steam Machines”-era version of SteamOS performed significantly worse than Windows when SteamOS’s Linux game ports were tested on the same hardware ...

I don't really know any operating systems other than Windows. I got started with it as a small kid with Windows 3.1, and from then on, I've been stuck on Microsoft's operating systems. Windows 95, 98, ...

Although I wouldn't call Linux a complex operating system, Windows is undeniably more streamlined and user-oriented. The ...

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Windows 10, it's almost time to bid you adieu. Support ends soon, and many of those PCs simply aren't powerful enough to run the successor to what has been one of the most widely used desktop OSes on ...

The end is here—at least, it is for Windows 10. Microsoft officially stopped supporting the decade-old operating system on October 14, 2025. There's one hiccup, though: Even though Windows 11 is a ...

Windows is laying the groundwork for a future where AI agents operate as first-class participants in the OS—governed, identifiable, and securely contained. We are all familiar with the basic concept ...

Have you heard? Windows 10 will stop getting updates in October as it finally goes out of service… except it won’t, because Microsoft relented and decided to give everyone an extra year of coverage.