Nina Kalinina takes a deep dive into one of the earliest PC desktops Reverse engineering VisiCorp's pioneering GUI for ...

An operating system is the essential software that's needed to run your computer's suite of software. Everything from video ...

A graphical user interface (GUI, pronounced “gooey”) is a computer environment that simplifies the user’s interaction with the computer by representing programs, commands, files, and other options as ...

We’ve had something of an anniversary of late, and it’s one that will no doubt elicit a variety of reactions from our community. It’s now 25 years ago that Windows 95 was launched, the operating ...

The computer's master control program. When a computer is turned on, a small "boot program" loads the operating system. Although additional system modules may be loaded as needed, the main part, known ...

June 2013 is almost at an end, and we've seen the passing of two major software development conferences, Apple's WWDC and Microsoft's Build, both of which have demonstrated and issued preview releases ...

Windows continues to be the most widely used operating system in the world, powering over a billion devices from personal laptops and desktops to workstations and enterprise machines. It is the ...

The North Korean government appears to have developed its own graphical Linux-based "Red Star" operating system, though its people still prefer that symbol of Yankee high-tech imperialism, Microsoft ...