500 Million Windows PCs Are About to Become Unsafe—Now There’s a Free Upgrade to Keep Them Running

Though Windows 11 upgrades are also free, more than 500 million Windows 10 PCs are ineligible due to system requirements they ...
Purdue University

In Print: ‘Operating System Design: The Xinu Approach’

Lauded for avoiding the typical vague, high-level survey approach found in many texts, earlier editions of this bestselling book removed the mystery by explaining the internal structure of an ...
Liliputing

BlackBerry’s QNX operating system is now free for non-commercial use

The last time I spent much time thinking about the QNX operating system was when Lee spent a few weeks in 2011 figuring out how to root a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet running the QNX-based PlayBook OS, ...
Wired

Do You Really Have to Stop Using Windows 10?

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 ...
The Next Web

Are the operating systems of the future immutable?

Developers talk a lot about “immutability.” Outside the technical world, it usually means something negative: unmoving, inflexible, and entrenched. However, in the technical field, these features ...
MacRumors

Apple Working on All-New Operating System

This is likely Apple's long-rumored "homeOS" operating system. In a report this week, Gurman said both Apple's rumored smart home hub in 2026 and tabletop robot in 2027 will run the new operating ...