While seasoned veterans of Windows and the Internet at large will have a reverence of sorts for installing things manually ...

Linux word processors are chipping away at Microsoft Word's ownership of the usability label. Check out this Daily Drill Down to see how StarOffice 6.0 matches up to the current word processing leader ...

We are told that Microsoft Word files can be viewed in any text editor, which probably is why so many people insist on sending even simple text documents as big Word attachments: “These download files ...

Developers will be able to download the WSL code and build it from source to help with fixes or features. Developers will be able to download the WSL code and build it from source to help with fixes ...

For decades, Microsoft Windows and the open source Linux operating system were polar opposites. Windows was developed by the biggest software company in the world, one that was no friend to open ...

A Secure Boot update wasn’t supposed to hit dual-boot machines, but it’s now preventing some Linux installs from booting. A Secure Boot update wasn’t supposed to hit dual-boot machines, but it’s now ...

There's a Linux Systems Group at Microsoft that has developed a number of products -- some for customers and partners and others for internal use. One of this group's deliverables is an internal Linux ...

It took Microsoft long enough, but the company has finally open-sourced its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) code. The announcement was made at the Build 2025 developer conference, closing a nearly ...

Yes, you read that correctly: Microsoft has officially released a web browser for Linux. Ars Technica reports the software behemoth has finally released its first stable version of Edge for Linux. The ...

Facepalm: Microsoft recently released its latest batch of monthly security updates for Windows and other software products. However, a bug fix designed to address a Secure Boot vulnerability ...

Times New Roman, Calibri, and many other popular fonts are created by Microsoft and can’t be included with Linux. If you open a Word document or another Microsoft Office document in LibreOffice or ...

Back in 2016, when Microsoft announced that SQL Server would soon run on Linux, the news came as a major surprise to users and pundits alike. Over the course of the last year, Microsoft’s support for ...