Mozilla has released Firefox 108.0.2 which brings two important fixes. One is related to video crashes on Mac and the other is related to browser history management on desktop platforms.
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Apple has released a short film on its website to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Steve Job's death. The film features various quotes from Jobs and showcases Apple's journey since its inception.
For the first time in 20 years, Mac users are going to find themselves upgrading to a version of macOS that isn't version 10. As shown in yesterday's keynote, macOS Big Sur is version 11.
While the market share report from two separate firms shows various contrasting aspects, one thing that both the reports agree on is the statement that Windows 7 is losing market share.
The latest report from NetMarketShare indicates that Windows 10 and Windows 7 are increasing in market share, however, Windows XP is facing a decline. All in all, Windows' market share has fallen too.
Data from NetMarketShare indicates that Windows 7's market share has increased, whereas Windows 10 has remained more or less constant. Meanwhile, Windows XP's market share has finally declined.
According to the latest data from NetMarketShare, Windows 10 is now installed on more than 25% of all machines, which is a healthy 214% YoY increase. Windows XP, however, refuses to die.
In a recent interview, Apple's senior vice president for worldwide marketing Phil Schiller admitted testing touch capability for Macs. However, his team concluded that it wasn't the right thing to do.
A new malware designed for macOS users has been detected by security researchers. It attacks users via a purported Google Chrome download, which instead installs a fake software to the computer.
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Mac OS X users that use a certain BitTorrent client have been infected with a nasty ransomware that disguises itself as a legitimate installer for the most recent version of the app.
Today, Apple released the fourth iterations of the betas for iOS 9.3, OS X 10.11.4 El Capitan, watchOS 2.2, and tvOS 9.2. These betas include a number of new features.
According to a database run by the U.S. government, the number of disclosed and fixed vulnerabilities by product was led by OS X, iOS and Flash, with Android at #20 and Windows at #14.
Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft's Xbox division, has stated that an Xbox app for Mac OS isn't on the company's radar, but will be considered if users show interest in the idea.
Google has recently revealed that its Chrome web browser will no longer support older versions of the Windows and Mac OS X operating systems by 2016; the company suggests users to move to a newer OS.
Security researchers plan to present findings on an easily-performed exploit of OS X's Gatekeeper software at the Virus Bulletin Conference in Prague, Czech Republic on Thursday.
Microsoft has announced that over 65 million units of Halo games across different platforms have been sold worldwide. This is up from 60 million units reported in October 2014.
A vulnerability in the way Apple's core operating system handles unicode characters allows an attacker to send a specially crafted message that can automatically reboot any Apple product.
Microsoft has released a significant update for the preview version of Office 2016 for Mac, which brings some critical bug fixes, performance improvements and a few additional features.
A new security vulnerability named "Darwin Nuke," that is capable of allowing remote denial of service attacks, has been discovered in Apple's iOS and OS X operating systems.
Latest research report about security vulnerabilities has revealed that Windows is not the most vulnerable operating system anymore with lesser reported threats than Mac OS and the Linux kernel.
Apple has launched bug fixes for the various currently supported versions of Mac OS X to address the recently discovered serious security flaw in Bash, known as "Shellshock"
A vulnerability believed to be more serious than the Heartbleed bug, has been discovered in Bash which is a shell widely used in various Unix and Linux based operating systems including Mac OS X.
Apple has released updates for the pre-release versions of the upcoming iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 operating systems and developers can now download them over the air for testing.
Apple has released the iTunes 12 beta alongside the new versions of the iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 "Yosemite" betas. The new beta brings needed improvements to the UI, as well as an anticipated feature.
Reports suggest that a 12in Macbook Air was supposed to ship with a Retina Display by late-2014, but was delayed due to shortages. The 11 and 13 inch models are said to be on track for release.
A new report claims Apple CEO Steve Jobs proposed that Sony run Mac OS X on its VAIO notebooks in 2001 but the VAIO team stopped the idea due to their efforts to optimize the notebooks on Windows.
Windows 8 has posted market share gains for June, passing Windows Vista after rising 0.83 percentage points to capture 5.10% of the market. It shows slow but continued gains for Microsoft's newest OS
Microsoft has released three Bing wallpaper packs for owners of Apple PCs running Mac OS X that include a number of Microsoft's images that were made for the Bing front page.
The latest Humble Bundle includes games for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Android. For whatever price you want to pay, you can get cross-platform support for a bunch of games.
A cryptographic key used to validate Adobe applications has been compromised, and was used to sign at least two malicious utilities. Adobe will recall the affected certificate and publish an update.
Paul Ferson takes a look at the Matias Corporation's Tactile Pro keyboard; a mechanical keyboard aiming to improve on the formula Apple showed the world in 1987, as well as adding new touches.
Apple's upcoming Mountain Lion operating system update will drop support of some older Mac models, even though they have 64-bit processors. The reason is likely due to older 32-bit graphics drivers.
A new update to Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) has, among other things, fixed a flaw that previously allowed for people to see and access a Mac's user passwords in cleartext.
Windows XP is still the number one most used PC operating system in the world with 46.08 percent of the market share worldwide, while Windows 7 continues to gain users.
Despite reports earlier in the week that Mac infections from the Flashback malware had been cut down, Dr. Web claims that Flashback has still infected 566,000 Mac PCs.
A new study claims that Mac users are almost three times more likely to try out an upcoming OS update such as Mountain Lion than Windows PC users are in trying out Windows 8.
Mozilla Corporation has released Firefox 11, the latest version of the popular open source web browser, with new features that can migrate data from Google Chrome and sync add-ons across computers.
Critics describe the new Apple OS “security” feature as the beginning of the end for the traditional OS experience for Mac users: soon Apple could start policing every application you try to install
Apple has announced that its Mac App Store, which first launched less than a year ago for its Mac PCs, has now reached and exceeded the 100 million app download mark.