How many times have you been asked what operating system version you use, and you haven’t got a clue? The question is often asked when you’re seeking technical support for software or hardware issues, ...

So as you may have noticed from last episode, computers keep getting faster and faster, and by the start of the 1950s they had gotten so fast that it often took longer to manually load programs via ...

As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces in Microsoft’s Windows platform, MS-DOS helped set the stage for the company’s dominance in the PC software market. When MS-DOS was released in 1981, ...

FreeBSD, Haiku, and other systems everyone mistakes for Linux are actually their own OS outside of the system that you are ...

Various versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system have existed since the 1980s. While the operating system got its start on personal computers, today, versions of Windows are available for a ...

Before the World Wide Web became ubiquitous as the de facto way to access electronic information, there were many other ways of retrieving information online. One of the most successful of these was ...

Linux is the hidden server side operating system that is at the heart of every company today. You might not have heard of it if you aren't a geek or a software engineer but it's there. Google, ...

A brand new computer can cost hundreds, even thousands of dollars. But you don’t necessarily have to spend anything to get ...