Running an operating system inside a browser may seem silly, but Puter is more capable than you'd expect, and I can even use ...

LisaGUI is a faithful reconstruction of the desktop and user interface of Apple's Lisa, the workstation that fed ideas into the early Macintosh, and it shows that there are still things to learn from ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The startup Deta wants to bring back software ownership and personal privacy without losing all the things that ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As someone who's been around the block a few hundred times with technology, planned obsolescence has long bothered me. When Microsoft released ...

Is that an old Windows system or a current Chrome OS computer? Google's getting ready to blur the lines of desktop computing in some seriously shape-shifting ways. Google’s Chrome OS platform has come ...

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

Valve’s newly announced Steam Deck has the tricky task of merging two very different worlds. It has the heart of a full blown PC, but the form factor of a handheld console primarily navigated by ...

A system snapshot ensures you always have the means to restore. Some operating systems have built-in tools for automatic snapshots. If your OS doesn't include a built-in tool, you should install one ...

Before clean installs, dual-boot menus, and cloud everything, there was that first encounter, the moment you realized a ...

OS X changed the game for Apple. Image: Killian Bell/Cult of Mac OS X, the most important piece of software in Apple history, turns 20 today. Going on sale in its full, public version on March 24, ...