Microsoft's Dave Probert sees the OS kernel of the future acting more like a hypervisor in order to better harness the power of multicore processors With chip makers continuing to increase the number ...

Developers talk a lot about “immutability.” Outside the technical world, it usually means something negative: unmoving, inflexible, and entrenched. However, in the technical field, these features ...

To some, an operating system is a burden or waste of resources, like those working on embedded systems and other low-power applications. To others it’s necessary, abstracting away hardware so that ...