Basically it’s an operating system that uses a Linux kernel, the WINE compatibility layer for Windows applications, and the ReactOS userland, plus a few other odds and ends to let you run Win32 apps.

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Microsoft has begun chopping at the roots of the UWP apps that populate the Microsoft Store, as it quietly announced plans to stop monetizing them using its own ad platform. That’s opened the door for ...

Microsoft is opening up old Win32 APIs long used for 32-bit Windows programming, letting coders use languages of their choice instead of the default C/C++ option or individual workarounds. As its name ...

What to do if you have an invalid Win32 application? When you launch an executable file, Windows displays a message like: Application name is not a valid Win32 application .exe is a file execution ...

Do you know that you can only have 260 characters in a path on Windows 11/10? If you are having issues with this limitation and searching for a way to enable Win32 Long Paths, this is the guide for ...

In the last couple of years a number of new bootkits have appeared in the wild targeting the Microsoft Windows platform. Among the most prominent examples are TDL4, Olmasco and Rovnix. These each ...

Additional updates to the story are below, including the version of security intelligence updates required to fix Win32/Hive.ZY false positive. A bad Microsoft Defender signature update mistakenly ...

' Win32.run ' has been released, which runs Windows XP on a browser. All files are processed on the client side, i.e., within the user's browser, and no file upload or server-side processing is ...

Ten years ago around this very time—April through June 2008—our intrepid Microsoft guru Peter Bright evidently had an identity crisis. Could this lifelong PC user ...