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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft Research has developed a non-Windows OS for academic types to play with. The subliminal message from Microsoft: Folks, we'd love to start from scratch with an OS, but we just can't go there.

Some might say the venerable Z80 doesn’t need another operating system, but [Scott Baker] obviously disagrees. He has come up with a brand new, from scratch OS called NostOS for the Z80-based RC2014 ...

How long do you think it would take if Microsoft decides to write a brand new from the ground up OS, free of old dependencies and clutter from the past. Redesign using new ideas and methods that were ...

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 ...

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 ...