Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...

Support and usurp. This appears to be Microsoft Corp.’s Unix strategy as it launches the latest upgrade of its Windows Server operating system. At a recent media briefing in Singapore, David Lowe, ...

In a deal that brings together companies that Linux backers consider bogeymen, The SCO Group announced Monday it has shook hands on a licensing agreement with Microsoft over SCO’s Unix operating ...