Parallels promises to let both OSes do their thing on a Mac at the same time, unlike Apple's BootCamp. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

For reference, I have an HP 15er Windows laptop and a MacBook Pro.

There is always going to be a big divide between macOS and Windows. Much of it has to do with the functional disparities that are deeply ingrained at an OS-level. Or if you dive into the heated ...

It probably won’t have escaped your notice that Microsoft previewed a new version of the Windows operating system in June. Back when Microsoft launched Windows 10 in 2015 it said it would be the last ...

The Mac’s been on a roll, both due to its highly regarded Mac OS X Leopard operating system and to an unhappy reception for Microsoft’s Windows Vista. The result: For the first time in memory, the Mac ...

Soon youou won’t need a dedicated Chrome OS-powered device, like a Chromebook, to run Google’s desktop operating system. Google has announced an early access program called Chrome OS Flex that will ...

Having get used to the way Mac OS handles mouse wheel scrolling, I was wondering if there is the same functionality in Windows: In Mac OS, when you scroll with the mouse wheel, the window your mouse ...

The conventional wisdom, that Mac’s OS X is superior to Windows Vista, is flat-out wrong. In fact, despite much belief to the contrary, Vista is a superior operating system. Here are five reasons why.