Somewhere, an ancient file system is still quietly bossing around your PC.

Ceefax was the BBC’s broadcast teletext service that ran until 2012, providing text and rudimentary graphics that were ...

Microsoft's Xbox restructuring triggers id Software layoffs, Claude Code warning, OpenAI launches GPT-5.6, Meta unveils Muse ...

Visual Studio Code 1.128 is out now. It's the latest weekly release and this time brings a handful of new features.

NetBSD is a real Unix that can run almost anywhere. Can it run as a desktop?

Article and title updated as 3 additional zero-days were fixed in the June 2026 Patch Tuesday. Today is Microsoft's June 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates for 200 flaws, including five ...

Microsoft has disclosed that a privilege escalation and a denial-of-service flaw in Defender has come under active exploitation in the wild. The former, tracked as CVE-2026-41091, is rated 7.8 on the ...

The Windows vs Linux argument can be easily boiled down quite quickly. If you're after a secure, semi-stable system that doesn't require you to be a power user, stick ...

I spend more time today than ever before interacting with terminal windows, which is something I don’t think Past Me would have believed in the early ’90s. Back then, poor MS-DOS was the staid ...

Editor's take: Microsoft continues to tightly control the release of some of its most important pieces of legacy software. While enthusiasts and programmers are eager to see newer versions of MS-DOS ...

PC-DOS 1.00 would lead to Microsoft becoming computing's top dog Microsoft continues to embrace open source. The source code and annotations provide insight into the operating system's earliest days.