What's the next step after web-based applications and thin clients? Web-based operating systems, apparently. An interesting idea known as YouOS is a project that strives to create a full computing ...

Operating systems are fairly complex pieces of software, and typically, they're the foundation of your computer experience. You don't usually expect to be able to run one operating system like Windows ...

A new ChromeOS Flex USB program from Google and Back Market aims to revive aging laptops by letting users easily install Google’s lightweight operating system. The post Google and BackMarket’s ...

Google likes to say that Chrome OS is an operating system that lets you do everything on the web. Don’t believe it. Until now, I’ve been pretty optimistic about Google’s web-based operating system.

Back in the days when people used to install software by inserting floppy disks into the slots on desktop computers, a few visionaries dreamt of being able to run software directly on the Internet and ...

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 ...