Microsoft has applied for a patent for a distributed operating system that matches the description of one its researchers have been developing, known as Helios. (Thanks to ZDNet blogger @Manan for the ...

An operating system designed to work in a network. More complex than a centralized or decentralized architecture, each computer in a distributed system operates and scales independently but is part of ...

It’s been hard to define exactly what Improbable, the London-based company that raised $20 million from Andreessen Horowitz in March, does up until now, but its vision is clearer after it announced ...

Following months of speculation, it turns out Huawei was indeed developing its own operating system. Announced just recently, it's called HarmonyOS, a microkernel-based distributed OS that can be used ...

While neither platform was easy to manage, their technical richness and elegance were praised because all the services required for distributed applications were built into the operating system. Today ...