Microsoft on Wednesday released an Office for Mac 2011 update to fix a major bug with OS X El Capitan, which previously prevented users from reading email in Outlook. The update, v14.5.6, can be ...

We recommend the following procedure when installing Mac OS X 10.4.7. First, avoid performing any other operations (in Mac OS X or third-party applications) while the update process is occurring. In ...

First, make a full backup of your current Mac OS X installation -- preferably a clone ( try SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner). If something goes wrong, or you experience a major incompatibility after ...

OS X may be retired, but it deserves to be remembered. Take a trip back with these 14 key milestones in the double-decade history of the operating system that helped transform a nearly bankrupt Apple ...

Has it really been that long? 24 March 2021 marked the 20th anniversary of Mac OS X. For those of us who were there to witness its release, it’s stunning to think that most of today’s Apple users ...

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 ...

As expected, Apple’s release of OS X El Capitan for Macs was less about adding major new features than “refining the experience and improving performance” from Yosemite — in other words, ...

In 1984, Apple started using the Macintosh operating system in its computers, which later became known as the Mac OS. Its introduction of a graphically driven interface (GUI) had been revolutionary, ...

Tavis Coburn These days, it’s easy to take Mac OS X for granted. Sure, we all love our Macs and the applications we use. But what has the operating system done for us lately? Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow ...

The first official public version of Mac OS X launched by Apple on March 24, 2001 wasn't a success at first, but it powered the Mac through the next 19 years until macOS Big Sur came out with Apple ...

If the 2010 Worldwide Developers Conference was centered on the iPhone and iPad, could next year’s gathering by Apple focus on the Mac? That’s the implication made Friday by one report. Apple is now ...