BOSTON -- Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system offers several ways for people with disabilities to tweak the software. There's a screen magnifier for the vision impaired, for example, and ways ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Your computer has an operating system, or OS. You may be ...

I've used nearly every possible desktop operating system known. I've experienced nearly every incarnation of Windows and MacOS, I've used just about all the various Linux distributions over the years, ...

If you've been using a personal computer for long enough, you've probably made a habit of interchangeably referring to the applications on your hard drive as programs or software. Both terms have been ...

The desktop operating system is dead as a major profit center, and Apple just delivered the obituary. Amid a slew of incremental improvements to its iPad tablets and MacBook laptops, Apple today ...

An operating system is a collection (or suite) of programs that manages and controls the computer. Operating systems have many functions: A user interface is a program, or suite of programs that ...

Virtualization technology, whereby multiple operating systems can be run on shared hardware, is extremely well understood if somewhat inefficient in its use of resources. Just a few decades ago, ...

Modern PCs, tablets and smartphones have an easy-to-use, graphical veneer that hides the complexity of the operating system software beneath that enables them work. While the developers of your device ...

Whether you're a power user or someone who dreads that update alert, knowing when to update your device has become less clear-cut. Here's how to decide which updates can wait - and which ones can't.