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 ...

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 ...

More surprising is that Win 7, like XP, is still core tech for many people. Almost nobody moved from Win 7, less than 1% of users. Some people did upgrade prior to the January 14, 2020 cut-off date, ...

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 ...

After downloading the Windows 7 beta last week and tossing it on a VM, I finally made the move and made it my default Windows installation. Normally, my Windows desktops are VMs that I RDP into from ...

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 ...