How-To Geek on MSN

Installing Linux is easier than Windows 11 now (here’s what changed)

Windows installer is slow, reboot-heavy, ad-filled and forces online accounts and privacy toggles. Linux installs fast, ...

The great programming transformation: How AI and Rust are quietly dethroning C in Linux - and Windows

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

While Microsoft is obsessed with AI, Valve is stealing PC gaming away

Microsoft’s big focus for Windows is AI integration. Meanwhile, Valve has been not-so-quietly pilfering the entire PC gaming ...
XDA Developers on MSN

4 things Windows gets right that Linux still struggles with

Although I wouldn't call Linux a complex operating system, Windows is undeniably more streamlined and user-oriented. The ...

A Microsoft engineer says that the use of Linux has overtaken Windows on its own Microsoft Azure cloud

In recent years, Microsoft has warmed up to Linux, which it used to see as a rival. Now, there's more use of Linux than Windows on Microsoft Azure.
ZDNet

Microsoft makes Windows Subsystem for Linux for Windows 11 a separate app in the Microsoft Store

Microsoft is making available today, October 11, a preview version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for Windows 11 in the Microsoft Store. This isn't a new version of WSL; Microsoft is just ...
CNET

Microsoft: Linux threat is rising

More companies are using the threat of Linux when negotiating deals with Microsoft, one of the company's senior executives has admitted. A year after a letter from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to his ...

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...
LinuxInsider

Windows 365 No Deal for Non-Biz Linux Users

Microsoft’s new Cloud PC with Windows 10/11 service potentially offers a way for some Linux users to sidestep what could be the last barrier for businesses to adopt the Linux desktop without leaving ...
PC World

Microsoft tells Windows users how to install Linux

In recent years, Microsoft has changed its attitude towards the open source operating system Linux. A slimmed-down version can be found, for example, in the Windows subsystem for Linux. This ...
Engadget

Microsoft's Edge browser is now 'stable' on Linux

Yes, you read that correctly: Microsoft has officially released a web browser for Linux. Ars Technica reports the software behemoth has finally released its first stable version of Edge for Linux. The ...
InfoWorld

XenSource Announced XenEnterprise for Windows and Linux

XenSource, Inc., the leader in infrastructure virtualization solutions based on the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced XenEnterprise for Windows and Linux, the market's first ...