Operating Systems Stories for 2021

BlackBerry OS Devices Will Stop Working On January 4, 2022 67
Ask Slashdot: How Many Files Are on Your Computer? 164
Microsoft Moves More Settings Away from the Control Panel on Windows 11 115
Google Is Building a New AR Device and OS 20
Android 12 Go Edition Brings New Speed, Battery, Privacy Features To Lower-end Phones 10
Windows 11 is Getting Some Much-needed Taskbar and Start Menu Improvements 134
Next Windows 11 Update Brings Back Clippy 124
New Windows Zero-Day With Public Exploit Lets You Become An Admin 57
Qualcomm Has an Exclusivity Deal With Microsoft For Windows On ARM 49
Microsoft Will Not Bring x64 Emulation to Windows 10 on ARM 46
Microsoft Will Continue Supporting Windows 10 With Yearly Feature Updates 31
'If Apple Keeps Letting Its Software Slip, the Next Big Thing Won't Matter' 116
Microsoft Launches Windows 11 SE Built for Low-cost Education PCs 62
Huawei Offloads x86 Business As It Chases Self-Sufficiency 28
Microsoft Warns Windows 11 Features Are Failing Due To Its Expired Certificate 109
Intel Core i9 11900K: Five Linux Distros Show Sizable Lead Over Windows 11 82
The 'Dune' Screenplay Was Written In MS-DOS 140
Microsoft Is Force Installing PC Health Check In Windows 10 84
It's Windows XP's 20th Birthday and Way Too Many Still Use It 130
macOS Monterey is Now Available To Download 38
John Carmack Pushes Out Unlocked OS For Defunct Oculus Go Headset 20
Android 12 Is Now Available For Pixel Phones 11
macOS Monterey Is Finally Rolling Out On October 25th 87
OpenBSD 7.0 Released 56
Google's Fuchsia Is Expanding To 'Additional Smart Devices and Other Form Factors' 32
Steve Jobs Tried To Convince Dell To License Mac Software 42
Microsoft Shares Windows 11 TPM Check Bypass For Unsupported PCs 74
Google Releases Android 12 To AOSP, But No Pixel Launch Today 14
New GriftHorse Malware Infects More Than 10 Million Android Phones 30
New Windows 11 Install Script Bypasses TPM, System Requirements 161
Students Don't Know What Files And Folders Are, Professors Say 186
Windows 11 Setup Warns That You Aren't 'Entitled' To Updates On Unsupported PCs 131
Comcast and UK Subsidiary Sky Reportedly Launching Smart TVs 17
PS5 Software Update Brings SSD Installation, 3D Audio Wednesday 10
Microsoft Suggests Those Divisive Windows 11 System Specs Deliver a 99.8% Crash-free Experience 187
Microsoft Boots Older PCs Out of Windows 11 Preview Testing 72
Docker Desktop No Longer Free For Large Companies 63
Microsoft Will Release Windows 11 on October 5 83
Happy Birthday, Linux: From a Bedroom Project To Billions of Devices in 30 Years 122
New Linux Syscall Enables Secret Memory Even the Kernel Can't Read 131
Google's Fuchsia OS Is Rolling Out Widely To 1st-Gen Nest Hubs 40
Start11 Brings a Classic Start Menu Back To Windows 11 134
The Galaxy Watch 4 Injects Samsung's Capable Hardware With Google Software 25
HP Announces New Detachable and All-in-One Chrome OS Computers 19
SteamVR Beta Lets You Arrange Desktop Windows Inside Your Virtual World 8
Google Will Kill Off Very Old Versions of Android Next Month 47
Google's Wear OS 3 Update Plans Will Leave Most Existing Devices Behind 15
Windows 11 Will Support Rolling Back To Windows 10, but Not for Long 91
How To Install Windows 3.1 on an iPad 53
OnePlus 9 Benchmarks Deleted From Geekbench Over Cheating Allegations 27
Apple Makes OS X Lion and Mountain Lion Free To Download 47
What Windows 11 Means: We'll Be Stuck With Millions of Windows 10 Zombies 289
Windows 11 Requires an Internet Connection and Microsoft Account At Setup 187
Microsoft Is Changing the Windows 11 Minimum Requirements 174
Microsoft Will Bundle Its Rival To Slack Into Windows 11 61
Microsoft Fights Back Against Windows 11 Leak 96
Google Announces Bold New Changes To Chrome OS Release Cycle 14
Linux X86/x86_64 Will Now Always Reserve the First 1MB of RAM 77
Swift Playgrounds For iPadOS 15 Lets You Build Apps On the iPad, Submit Them To the App Store 28
Huawei's HarmonyOS Arrives With iPad-Inspired Tablet UI, Apparent Android Base 39
Google's Mysterious Fuchsia OS Makes its Public Debut 68
Linux 5.13 Reverts and Fixes Problematic University of Minnesota Patches 38
Google and Samsung Are Merging Wear OS and Tizen 44
Microsoft Says Windows 10X Isn't Happening 48
Microsoft Shelves Windows 10X, It is not Shipping in 2021 74
Microsoft Is Finally Ditching Its Windows 95-Era Icons 108
Windows Defender Bug Fills Windows 10 Boot Drive With Thousands of Files 64
Two More Windows 10 Updates Will Remove Adobe Flash For Good 47
Windows 10 Now Active on 1.3 Billion Devices, Says Microsoft 79
FreeBSD 13 Released 66
Microsoft Is Finally Releasing a 64-Bit Version of OneDrive For Windows 75
IBM Creates a COBOL Compiler For Linux On x86 188
What We're Expecting From Google's Custom 'Whitechapel' SoC In the Pixel 6 16
AlmaLinux Released As a Stable RHEL Clone For Those Who Liked CentOS 43
UNIX's Founders Created Another OS at Bell Labs: 'Plan 9' 135
Five-Year-Old Fairphone 2 Getting Updated To Almost Three-Year-Old Android 9 57
It's Been 20 Years Since the Launch of Mac OS X 88
Linus Torvalds On Where Rust Will Fit Into Linux 115
Windows 10 Updates Are Causing Even More Printer Problems Than First Thought 70
7-Zip Developer Releases the First Official Linux Version 87
Chrome OS Did Lots of Growing Up in Its First Decade -- and There's More To Come 42
The SvarDOS Community Builds an Open Source DOS Distribution 14
Google-Free /e/ OS Is Now Selling Preloaded Phones In the US, Starting At $380 44
Linus Torvalds Went Six Days Without Electricity, Swears Smaller 5.12 Kernel Is Co-Incidental 58
Linux Mint Developers Will Force Updates on Users Like Microsoft Does with Windows 10 142
LG Says It Will License webOS To Other TV Makers 82
Android 12 Leak Appears To Show Major Redesign With Color-Changing UI 47
The Nintendo Switch Can Now Run Android 10, Unofficially 20
AlmaLinux Releases Beta of Their CentOS/RHEL 8 Fork 13
Wine 6.0 Released 100
Windows 10X for Single Screens Leaks 107
Apple Removes Feature That Allowed Its Apps To Bypass macOS Firewalls and VPNs 29
Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping a Bunch of Old CPUs 93
The Thinking Behind the 32GB Windows Format Limit On FAT32 124