It's been almost a year since CrowdStrike crashed Windows PCs and disrupted businesses worldwide. New changes to the Windows security architecture will make those outages less likely and easier to ...

“This marks the first time that the Linux kernel will be included as a component in Windows,” said Jack Hammons, program manager for the Linux Systems Group at Microsoft, in a blog post.

No, it's not April Fools' Day. Windows Subsystem for Linux is getting a notable upgrade, new architecture and a real Linux kernel to compliment it.

Back in October, Eric Traut, one of Microsoft's chief operating system design engineers, demonstrated MinWin, a very slimmed down kernel that was expected to be the core of Windows 7.

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The kernel will be made available first of all to users operating within the Windows Insider program. This is expected later this year, within the Windows 10 19H2 update.

With Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced policy changes restricting how Windows kernel-mode drivers could be loaded into the operating system, requiring developers to submit their drivers for ...

For decades, Microsoft Windows and the open source Linux operating system were polar opposites. Windows was developed by the biggest software company in the world, one that was no friend to open ...

2nd course in the Advanced Embedded Linux Development .Instructor: Dan WalkesThis course provides an introduction to Kernel programming for the Linux operating system, and the development of Linux ...