As a giant company with the most dominant operating system in history, it is easy to believe that Microsoft wants to shut out their competitors. That is why everyone was in shock during the Build 2016 ...

Microsoft surprised pretty much everyone when it brought native support for Ubuntu in Windows 10 last year. Now the company is going a step further: As promised, you can now download Ubuntu right from ...

Microsoft announced at its Build 2017 developer conference earlier this year that Ubuntu would be heading to the Windows Store, and now the popular Linux distro is available to download. Ubuntu — like ...

If you've ever suffered through a painful Windows update or watched in disbelief as your MacBook decided to slow to a crawl and switch its fan into jumbo-jet-at-takeoff mode, you know that there's one ...

There have been a number of times where Windows has annoyed me to the point where I wish I could install a Linux distro such as Ubuntu. The trouble is switching to a new operating system can feel like ...

If you have a PC running Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise, Microsoft recently made it much easier to run Ubuntu Linux. In September, they added a customized Hyper-V image for Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, the Long ...

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When the Windows 10 Anniversary Update was announced, there was one feature that got me excited: support for the Linux Bash shell. I grew up using Unix shell commands and was always frustrated by the ...

Microsoft’s Windows 8 dominated countless headlines in the weeks leading up to its launch late last month, but October saw the debut of another major operating system as well. Canonical’s Ubuntu 12.10 ...

Back in May, at its Build 2017 developer conference, Microsoft announced that Ubuntu, SUSE and Fedora were coming to the Windows Store. Now, Ubuntu is available to download from the Store, as spotted ...