Any fair-sized enterprise has both Unix and Windows systems in it. The rise of internet protocols like HTTP has given us a basis for some level of universal interoperability, but many users need more ...

Let’s face it: Not everyone wants to futz with Linux. But within Windows, playing around with Linux is becoming easier and easier—enough that you can get up and running with little more than a single ...

Last week reader leigh@ wrote: OK I get the picture but... When will, or how will we get an article that helps us unfortunates who were trained on M$ across the line with Linux? The second comment ...

Do any of these situations describe your company? * You have a heterogeneous computing environment that includes a mix of Windows, Unix and Linux systems. * Because of disparate platforms, you are ...

Microsoft began including WinGet by default in Windows 11 and 10, making it incredibly easy for users like me to try a ...

Vintela was just another platform integration company until Microsoft recently decided to make a multimillion-dollar investment in it. What attracted Microsoft to Vintela was that its tools allow IT ...

Linux, to date, remains one of the best-known and most used open-source operating systems. It is one of the most popular versions of the UNIX operating System with open source as its source code.

HP releases server speed-test results that for the first time compare its version of Unix with Microsoft's Windows on the company's top-end Itanium server. And the winner is... Stephen Shankland ...

Now is a particularly good time to ditch Windows for good, for workstations as well as servers. For instance, now that Microsoft stopped supporting Windows Server 2003 on July 13, you’ll need to find ...