After word leaked that Midori would be Microsoft's next, all-new OS, Doug asked readers whether Microsoft building an OS from scratch is a good idea. Most of you said yes: Absolutely! When you're a ...

Ever wondered what it would take to roll your own OS? [Sebastian]’s Snowdrop OS might just provide you with some insight into that process, and maybe even some inspiration. [Sebastian] created ...

The Symbian Foundation keeps kicking off developer-focused initiatives. One of the more recent is the Symbian Bug Squad, an attempt to convince developers to help test and fix bugs in the Symbian ...

Last week, a group of Googlers did something strange: They quietly revealed a new operating system that theoretically competes with Google’s own Android OS. Dubbed Fuchsia, the open-source ...

OSv, a from-scratch OS for running applications at scale and with high performance, blazes a trail to the cloud that doesn't use Linux or Docker-style containers CoreOS and Joyent’s SmartOS/Triton ...

Facebook is reportedly working on its own operating system, in the hopes that sometime in the future it can pull back its reliance on Android. A new report from The Information says that the co-author ...

News of Singularity, a non-Windows operating system from Microsoft, sparked my interest in OSes past and present. It got me thumbing though the back issues of MacWEEK for memories of OSes that were ...