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40 years of Windows: How Windows 7 cleansed the sins of Vista
By Chris Hoffman published
Premium Following the release of the poorly received Windows Vista, Microsoft had some work to do to reinstate trust in the operating system, and Windows 7 was a roaring success. Here's why.

Apple's Migration Assistant makes transferring all your data to a new Mac so easy that even a caveman could do it
By Brandon Hill published
Migration Assistant is an easy and efficient way to transfer your data from an old Mac to a new one.

I've tried many Linux distros designed to look and feel like Windows, and this is the best one yet
By Les Pounder published
It may look like Windows 11, but Linuxfx is really Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS in disguise. But to go far in the world of Linux you need more than good looks!

I use one simple tool to update my Linux OS and all of its software in minutes — Topgrade auto-detects and updates all of my system via one command
By Les Pounder published
Topgrade is one command that updates everything on your Linux, Windows and macOS machine.

Support for Intel's Itanium architecture is once again on the chopping block in GCC 16
By Aaron Klotz published
Maintainers are discussing whether or not to remove IA-64 support from the GCC compiler once again. If their plans go through, IA-64 support could be dropped for GCC 16.

Linus Torvalds calls RISC-V code from Google engineer 'garbage' and that it 'makes the world actively a worse place to live'
By Mark Tyson published
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has publicly dismissed a RISC-V code contribution from a Google engineer as 'garbage.'

Major Intel Linux driver projects are dying due to Intel layoffs and corporate restructuring
By Aaron Klotz published
Intel is continuing to drop more Linux maintainers and Linux drivers due to corporate restructuring within the company.

California man sues Microsoft for discontinuing Windows 10
By Jowi Morales published
Microsoft is ending support for Windows 10 by October 2025, but someone is suing the company to stop it from doing so.
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