Hidden behind all of this hoopla, however, is the fact that as much of an improvement Vista is over XP, its main competitor, Mac OS X, still stacks up really well -- and even tops Vista in several ...

Just imagine if Siri ran on your Mac OS X computer. OS X Siri would work almost exactly like her iOS sister, but because background noise would be less of a concern she might be voice- rather than ...

Mac OS X is a very pretty operating system, but beauty runs only skin deep. An operating system by itself is a poor thing — it’s the applications that run on top of it that matter. And here’s where ...

2001: OS X MacOS X, Apple’s operating system, was introduced in 1984 to run the Macintosh line of personal computers. In its marketing efforts, Apple focused heavily on its operating system’s ...

In the 1990s, Apple was in trouble. The once-revolutionary Mac OS was creaking and next-gen replacements were going nowhere. Enter Steve Jobs, who returned to the company he founded with a pile of ...

Today marks the 25th anniversary of Apple launching Mac OS X, the operating system that serves as the foundation of modern-day macOS. Apple released a public beta of Mac OS X in September 2000, and ...

It's easy to make boot disks on old Macs for older hardware, but as the years have gone on, it's gotten a little more difficult. Here's how to make classic Mac OS 9 and early Mac OS X boot media on ...

The 40-year history of Macintosh computers is a roller coaster of ages golden and dark. Anything that lasts so long in the forefront of technology has to change to stay relevant. This once-plucky ...

We have some applications that are being served by Microsoft's RDWA service. This appears to rely on Active X controls as I can't get it to work unless I'm using IE 6 or higher on a Windows computer.