I'm always amazed how organizations equip their newest employees with the wrong electronics. Instead of expensive, high-powered laptops, give new development staff members a desktop accompanied by an ...

Microsoft today unveiled the Desktop App Converter, which lets developers bring existing Windows applications to the Windows Universal Platform (UWP). The company is hoping to bring the 16 million ...

We don't need a new desktop, Linux or otherwise. We need a new way of thinking about the desktop. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media.

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At Ubuntu Summit 2023 in Riga, Latvia, Canonical product manager Oliver Smith and engineering manager Ken VanDine introduced the Ubuntu Core Desktop. It's not shipping yet, but it's getting closer -- ...

Remember the desktop? It used to be a popular development target, before all the mobile-first, cloud-first and, most recently, Internet-of-Things hype. Well, apparently it still is, and paying off ...

Rhino Linux has been one of my favorite aesthetics on the open-source desktop for some time. From theme to layout, the developers had taken the Xfce desktop and made it special. From the first time I ...

It's Linux, rather than the Web browser, that's stealing developer attention away from desktop Windows, according to Evans Data. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

Most software developers working on Windows have a pretty standard roster of tools: a code editor or IDE; Git or another version control system; a messaging client (whether Slack or one of its clones) ...