On the 20th anniversary of macOS, longtime PCMag contributor Edward Mendelson rhapsodizes about just what makes Apple's software so unique. Furthermore, it seems to have been getting everything right ...

An operating system, like Windows OS, is a computer program that links a computer user to hardware and handles files, memory, processes, input and output, and peripheral devices like disc drives and ...

Windows RT and Mac OS are getting a lot closer, thanks to a particularly enterprising feat of jailbreaking. Programmer Steve Troughton-Smith found a way to get an early version of Mac OS running on ...

I've been testing PC and mobile software for more than 20 years, focusing on photo and video editing, operating systems, and web browsers. Prior to my current role, I covered software and apps for ...

About nine months ago, I acquired a 13-inch MacBook Air. At that point, the first Ultrabooks had been announced but were not yet shipping. Even so, I might have waited, except that the Ultrabooks I’d ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...