If you miss the simplicity or design aesthetic of 1990s Linux computing, there's some good news. A project to port KDE 1 and ...

Flickr user Greg put this desktop together using Windows 7, combining some things we like about the flat design in Windows 8 with a little depth elsewhere and some well-placed, very useful widgets.

IT pros likely are too busy addressing failed Windows patches to focus on the latest marketing push from Microsoft, but "modern desktop" and even "managed desktop" seem to be the latest things. The ...

It wasn’t so long ago that a desktop computer was just a beige box with another, heavier, beige box sitting next to it or maybe perched on top. They’re a bit more visually exciting these days, with ...

Windows desktop management is in transition. The destination – at least from Microsoft’s perspective – is what the company calls “modern management”, and there are some key ingredients. The first is ...

I've been a fan of the GNOME desktop for a very long time. I was around when the first beta arrived and I've been using it on and off ever since. To that end, I've witnessed and used just about every ...

(MoneyWatch) Windows 8 is without a doubt the most controversial OS that Microsoft has ever released. It's not objectively bad in the same way as Windows ME or Windows Vista; instead, it's reviled by ...

It's another year and another Computex, which means it's time for PC makers to show off more of their coming PCs. And it's also time for Microsoft to provide some aspirational words about Windows.

Mandy Mock, the Vice President and General Manager of the Desktop, Workstation and Channel Group, part of the Client Computing Group (CCG) at Intel, is responsible for Intel's Desktop and Workstation ...