Summary List Placement An emulator is a computer program (or occasionally custom computer hardware) that’s designed to simulate another kind of device. For example, WINE is a program that allows you to run Windows soft...
Like your computer, the Google Chrome browser comes with its own full set of keyboard shortcuts. While Chrome’s keyboard shortcuts are available across devices, they will differ slightly depending on the operating system y...
Gmail has a wealth of keyboard shortcuts that let you work faster and use the mouse less often. To get started using Gmail keyboard shortcuts, which are turned off by default, you need to turn them on through Gmail’s setting...
Melissa Di Donato is the CEO of SUSE which builds open source Linux and cloud infrastructure products. She took the role around the same time that IBM acquired Red Hat for $34 billion and she likens the acquisition to SUSE...
Linus Torvalds, the developer who created the widely-used open source operating system Linux, warned users not to use the ZFS file system, Phoronix’s Michael Larabel first reported. ZFS was built by Sun Microsystems, which h...
Microsoft is making its workplace collaboration tool, Teams, available on Linux operating systems. Team is the first Microsoft Office 365 app available on Linux and the move is indicative of Microsoft’s willingness to ...
In the early days of VMware, Microsoft could well have edged it out of the market, if it weren’t for one key strategy. “In some senses, VMware has over the course of time had to navigate among other bigger companies,...
On Thursday, Microsoft engineer Sasha Levin wrote: “The Linux usage on our cloud has surpassed Windows.” Linux is an open source operating system that is popular with developers. Microsoft spent a long time considering...
Five years ago, Google engineers made the cloud-computing project Kubernetes available as open source. Although there was internal debate at Google over whether to give it away, the company believes it was the right choice — and...
Amazon Web Services had a head start in 2006 when it offered software developers something they couldn’t refuse: access to virtually unlimited computing power in Amazon’s data centers. And that’s how Amazon’...