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Google is releasing a lightweight, open-source PC-operating system later this year, the company announced Tuesday night, a move that threatens the very heart of Microsoft, long seen as Google’s ...

Windows 8 is a PC operating system, so it does have a local file system with a file browser, and you can pick pictures there, but traditionally that doesn't give you access to those cloud pictures.

One safe technology prediction for this year is that we’ll see new operating systems and new user interfaces on personal computers. Mac OS X (referred to as “10”), Microsoft’s code-named ...

These are different operating systems, and as such they offer a slightly different user interface. Most of us are probably at least moderately familiar with the user interface of Windows computers.

VideoLike a lot of people who cover technology I got my start in the IT world and became incredibly critical of it. In the 90s it was fairly terrible: Most workers had to be trained on how to use ...