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Microsoft will begin to ship an in-house custom built Linux kernel starting with the Windows 10 Insider builds this summer. This kernel is to become the backbone for the new Windows Subsystem for ...

Microsoft has acknowledged the vulnerability and has successfully deployed security patches to address the flaw, so make sure your PC is fully updated. High-severity Windows kernel race condition can ...

In my post about Windows 7 back in January (""="">), I ended with a statement that deserves some follow-up: Those who are predicting that Windows 7 will include some radically stripped-down kernel ...

Microsoft confirmed Friday that it will ship Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 in the upcoming Windows 10 20H1 (2004) release, though updates will be handled though Windows Update, and not the app. As we ...

Much of modern operating system functionality happens in and around the kernel. That’s a problem when you’re implementing monitoring and observability tools or adding low-level security tools because ...

Project Zero, Google's 0day bug-hunting team, today disclosed a zero-day elevation of privileges (EoP) vulnerability found in the Windows kernel and actively exploited in targeted attacks. The flaw is ...

With Microsoft embracing Linux ever more tightly, might it do the heretofore unthinkable and dump the NT kernel in favor of the Linux kernel? No, I’m not ready for the funny farm. As it prepares ...

Earlier today, we wrote that Microsoft was going to add some big new features to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, including native support for Docker containers. It turns out that that ain’t the half ...

Microsoft has revealed more information on changes to the Vista kernel as part of the release of Service Pack 1, but has denied that the enhancements amount to an "upgrade" or "re-engineering". In a ...