Windows 11 comes with numerous applications by default that offer little added value for many users — but still take up ...

Microsoft recently unveiled plenty of surprises regarding the upcoming launch of Windows 10. After announcing that Windows 10 would unite phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops under a single OS, it ...

So, with the great amount of open source applications being built on the Windows platform and the support infrastructure from Microsoft, can we call Microsoft an open source (friendly) company? Of ...

Let's make the very safe assumption that you have Windows systems in your company. Let's also assume--as is the case in most companies of any size--that you need to write software for them. You have ...

What are open-source operating systems? Underpinning an operating system, for example Windows on your PC or Android on your phone, is many, many lines of code. Allowing anyone to inspect the source ...

Jeff Bates, vice president of editorial operations at The Open Source Technology Group, home to Slashdot.org and SourceForge, the open source software development community, says he has seen a ...

To many, free open source software and Microsoft Windows seem to be mutually exclusive. After all, the open source development model is most closely associated with the Linux OS and, to a lesser ...

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich said this week the company has considered everything when it comes to new open-source initiatives, including Windows. That would be a major departure for the ...

There are a growing number of ways to quickly and easily sideload Android apps on Windows 11. Shortly after writing about WSATools, the first Android app sideloader to hit the Microsoft Store, I ...

While the tech is being used for Valve's SteamOS projects, the company says it's also "useful for the ecosystem at large." ...

This post covers the best open-source text editor software for your Windows 11/10 PC. There are several good open-source text editors available for the Windows operating system. Choosing the one that ...