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Microsoft is informing developers that the kernel version number for Windows 10 is going to be hiked straight to version 10 shortly. The kernel number has been out of sync with Windows release number ...

One day after a Google security researcher releases code to expose a flaw that affects every release of the Windows NT kernel — from Windows NT 3.1 (1993) up to and including Windows 7 (2009) — ...

Back in 2010, I wrote a bit about a Microsoft Research mobile project called Menlo. Part of that project involved a skunkworks team effort known as Experiment 19. At that time, my sources told me that ...

There have been a number of rumors circulating for months that Microsoft is planning to make some very major revisions with Windows Phone 8, codenamed "Apollo." Specifically, the word is Microsoft is ...

Microsoft released MS-DOS, a DOS-based operating system, in August 1981, and Windows 1.0 in November 1985. They then co-developed OS/2 with IBM as a successor to DOS, but the project ran into ...

It's not a complete surprise, but it's still a little bit shocking that it's actually happening -- Windows Phone 8 will be borrowing much of its code base, including the kernel, from Windows 8. At the ...

At Microsoft’s Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco this morning, Redmond officially announced Windows Phone 8. The company confirmed what we’ve suspected for many months now: Windows Phone 8 will be ...