It's been a bumpy five years in the making, and it took a detente between old rivals Microsoft and Apple to do it. Office for Mac OS X is finally here--could it be the start of a beautiful friendship?
As Apple prepares a coming-out party for Mac OS X at Macworld, a loose band of developers is struggling to port the OpenOffice suite to the OS.
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Is Apple Computer (a) the top design shop in the computer industry; (b) the manufacturer of the best PC on the market; or (c) destined to forever remain a prisoner of its own success?
Mac OS X 10.0 was released to the public a little over a year ago. At the time, the freshly hatched operating system was better suited to tinkerers than consumers. It wasn't until version 10.1 came out in September that things began to get interesting for the non-bleeding-edge demographic.
Is Apple keeping the iPod Touch and iPhone platform closed to third party developers to protect its impressive record on security?
There were some interesting responses to my analysis piece last week about Apple's new Boot Camp Windows-on-Mac software, but all the evidence still points in one direction...
So, it seems the WOW -- for Microsoft's Windows Vista -- is not now, but sometime in the future, maybe.
The latest Internet Threat Survey from Symantec is a whopping 120 pages and unlike in its previous reports, the company has avoided any mention of malware for Apple's OS X.
The only people who won't eventually move to Windows Vista are the Linux and Mac enthusiasts.
Is Apple Computer (a) the top design shop in the computer industry; (b) the manufacturer of the best PC on the market; or (c) destined to forever remain a prisoner of its own success?
Mac voyeurs are people who want to know all about my Macintosh project. They are intensely interested in knowing everything about how the Mac works. That's innocent enough, but it grows from there.
A Windows-dependent columnist uses an iMac for all computing needs for a month to prove a point and ends up a fan. How and why?
Apple computers have built a solid reputation on being virus-free, but is the reality different from the image?
Corporate customers that use Cisco Systems virtual private network technology to connect to their company's network while on the road will have to wait to use Apple Computer's new operating system.
Rich DeMuro shows you how to use Apple's Boot Camp program to get the best of both worlds by configuring your Mac to run two operating systems.
The new Mac operating system is gorgeous (and it works pretty well, too). Mac-heads will want it; Windows users will yawn.
A Windows-dependent columnist uses an iMac for all computing needs for a month to prove a point and ends up a fan. How and why?
Although it won't be in stores until autumn 2007, Steve Jobs has given the world a preview of the next Apple operating system.
Microsoft released several patches for Windows Vista on Tuesday, including one designed to put the iPod and the new operating system back on speaking terms.
Apple's soon-to-be-launched iPhone will be irrelevant to business users because it is a "closed device" and does not support Microsoft Office, a senior executive with the software giant said this week.
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