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Netscape browser left with skeleton staff
News Its long-awaited first full release was followed by a snub from Apple, which passed over Mozilla in favour of another open-source technology for its Safari Web browser. At the same time, Microsoft is stopping development of IE as a stand-alone...
[July 17, 2003, 13:28]
Microsoft invests in cross-platform development
News Apple's Mac OS will be one of the operating systems supported with WPF/E, as well as older versions of Windows and Microsoft Smartphone, according to Microsoft executives. Even as it steers developers toward the forthcoming edition of Windows...
[September 16, 2005, 9:10]
Security flaw hits Windows, Mac, Linux
News Apple Computer confirmed that its Mac OS X operating system contains the vulnerability, which has been fixed through a recent security update, available through the software's automatic update mechanism.
[August 7, 2002, 11:54]
Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Apple has invited me along to the Festival of the Leopard, so I have high hopes that I'll soon be adding OS X to the mix (I do have a Mac OS 8 box in the bedroom, but I only use that for Crystal Quest, so it doesn't count).
[October 22, 2007, 1:43]
Linux 'better than proprietary software'
News Apple Computer's Mac OS X has a great deal of proprietary programming, but the core of the operating system is based on BSD, an open-source operating system similar to Linux. Though Coverity does not have any data about the relative frequency of...
[December 14, 2004, 10:30]
Linux lovers hit hard times as home users
News Apple's Mac OS X ranked second, with 3.2 percent of the total operating system market, while Linux placed third with 1.4 percent. However, you need an OS like Windows to connect to the Internet first, unless you've got a copy from a co-worker or...
[November 3, 2005, 17:20]
Corel closes the curtain on open source
News Apple's Mac OS X is built on a BSD core. An early, pre-release version of Xandros' software has already surfaced as the core of Lindows OS, a version of Linux touted as being able to run popular Windows applications.
[February 18, 2002, 14:37]
Microsoft makes Longhorn in modules
News Apple already uses modularity on its Mac OS X operating system to make it easier and cheaper to localise the OS for different languages; Microsoft has also introduced some MUI functionality with Windows XP, although localisation, the process of...
[May 27, 2003, 16:13]
What Do We Expect from Netbooks?
Blog Comment Why can't Apple release a version of OSX that can run on a selection of Atom based Netbooks only (I mean a legit version)- it woud sell like hot cakes - and wouldn't undermine - only enhance their business model.
[March 31, 2009, 8:51]
The HP 'people's notebook' runs Linux
News Until now, the use of Linux has largely been confined to servers and not in consumer desktops, a space which is still dominated by Microsoft's Windows OS and to a smaller extent, Apple's Macintosh. None of the large US-based PC makers -- HP, IBM...
[May 12, 2003, 8:40]
Google kicks off 64-bit Chrome for Linux
News Apple has said JavaScript will run much faster on the 64-bit version of Safari. The transition to 64-bit software is well underway — notably with Linux and Mac OS X — but the change is not simple. For example, Mac OS X already is most of the way...
[August 21, 2009, 8:57]
2004: The year of desktop Linux?
Talkback If you do not agree with them, you must get pay by Microsoft, why not also, Apple? You can expect OS code to be always perfect. I guess I never heard about that because it is such a small share of the OS market.
[January 1, 2004, 18:41]
Oracle's Sun day creates new world for enterprise
Leader Get it right, as Apple does for consumers, and you can survive the fiercest market and the most implacable competition. Oracle has every chance of getting it right, although like Apple and Microsoft it is likely to give lip service to 'open' but be...
[April 20, 2009, 17:24]
EU clashes with Microsoft over Vista features
Talkback Apple and Linux do not have a problem with viruses or malware. If the security of the current OS is such a nightmare, then why are so many people using it every day and risking the fate of their businesses on it?
[September 28, 2006, 12:01]
Martin Veitch's Diary
News I mean, Apple is still out there, Novell is really doing great things with directory services, Unix is big in the Web and banks, and as for OS/2 Hey, guys, just because they're saying that the dominant OS player shouldn't be able to bundle all...
[February 7, 1998, 6:00]
Google and Microsoft jostle for desktop position
News Apple Computer already offers an elegant tool built into Mac OS X to perform many of these tasks, but it only works on its own Macintosh line of computers, which account for less than 5 percent of the market.
[May 24, 2004, 10:50]
Microsoft: You already have naked PCs!
Blog Comment Apple builds (and has designed all along) BOTH the hardware and the software, so there is no conflict of interest (unlike the case with Microsquash) and no reason to force product separation. For OEMs like Dell who ship directly to the customer...
[September 28, 2007, 23:13]
Analyst: Android handsets set to overtake iPhones
News Apple's iPhone has a slightly longer heritage, with the first device arriving in the US in June 2007. Both Android and OS X are eating into the market share of the number one-selling smartphone OS-maker, Symbian.
[March 9, 2009, 8:53]
Windows XP: The big squeeze?
News The long list of new features potentially puts an even longer list of companies in Microsoft's crosshairs, including Adobe Systems, Apple Computer, AOL Time Warner, Corel, InterVideo, MGI, Netopia, Network Ice, RealNetworks, Roxio, Ulead, Zone...
[May 21, 2001, 14:02]
Linux: The back door is open
News After all, Apple, Novell and Sun all seem unable to stop Microsoft from dominating the desktop and, eventually, the server. For Microsoft, it was to undo Netscape -- and retrofit its OS for the Net era.
[September 15, 1998, 10:30]
