Welcome to the last day of Windows 7—the last day Microsoft is giving out security updates for the antiquated operating system, that is. While you have plenty of options for upgrading Windows 7, and ...

Microsoft is finally taking Linux seriously as a desktop operating system, and it has designed Windows 7 to kill it Microsoft has long been worried about Linux competition in the server market. When ...

This whole Windows 7 crushes or doesn’t kill Linux deal has really sparked a lot of comments and raging debates here and on Digg. I thought I’d recap and talk about some of the comments readers have ...

The KDE Community wants Windows 7 users to migrate to the Plasma desktop environment after Microsoft's 10-year-old OS will reach end of support next week and stops receiving security and bug fixes.

Desktop Linux can run on your Windows 7 (and older) laptops and desktops. Machines that would bend and break under the load of Windows 10 will run like a charm. And today’s desktop Linux distributions ...

In the mother of all grudge matches, Tom's Hardware has pitched Windows 7 against Ubuntu 11.10 in a dizzying array of benchmarks -- and the winner might surprise you. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Now is a particularly good time to ditch Windows for good, for workstations as well as servers. For instance, now that Microsoft stopped supporting Windows Server 2003 on July 13, you’ll need to find ...

The Linux world has long offered virtually innumerable alternatives to Windows and Mac OS, including several options designed specifically to ease the transition for those making the switch. Born back ...

I didn't want to write this column. I live as Windows-free an existence as most people can these days. Of course I have to run Windows as part of my job, in order to make sure that Samba, the software ...

Microsoft has long been worried about Linux competition in the server market. When it came to ordinary PCs and laptops, however, it knew it had little to fear. But that was then. Now Microsoft may ...