Windows 7 tops Vista software sales, lags behind in hardware

Microsoft's heavily hyped Windows 7 debut was a success for the Redmond, Wash., company in terms of boxed software, which saw a 234 percent increase over Vista, though PC hardware sales slowed.

Sam Oliver 16 years ago 248

Psystar sells $50 software hack to run Snow Leopard on PCs

Mac cloner and enduring litigant Psystar has rolled out a new $50 application that will allow certain Intel-powered PCs to run Mac OS X.

Zach Spear 16 years ago 72

Apple seeds new Mac OS X 10.6.2 beta with guest account glitch fix

Apple Friday sent its third beta release of the forthcoming Mac OS X 10.6.2 update with fixes for QuickTime, iChat, and a widely reported guest account glitch that could delete user data..

AppleInsider Staff 16 years ago 54

Apple plans Mac marketing blitz around Windows 7 launch

Apple plans to counter the upcoming release of Windows 7 with advertisements that will lambaste the upgrade process from Windows XP, and portray Macs as more secure.

Katie Marsal 16 years ago 168

Snow Leopard guest account bug deletes user data [u]

Reports of a potentially critical Snow Leopard bug that can erase a user's account data have continued to surface since the operating system's debut [Updated with Apple official comment].

AppleInsider Staff 16 years ago 98

Apple seeds second beta of Mac OS X 10.6.2 to developers

Apple has seeded its developers with a second beta release of its Mac OS X 10.6.2 update, which incorporates numerous fixes for a wide variety of issues.

AppleInsider Staff 16 years ago 81

Mossberg: Windows 7 narrows the gap with Apple's Mac OS X

Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal has given Microsoft's Windows 7 a glowing review, noting that Microsoft's latest operating system is still behind Apple's Mac OS X, but not by much.

Katie Marsal 16 years ago 465

Apple seeds Mac OS X 10.6.2 to developers with dozens of fixes

A pre-release build of the next update to Mac OS X 10.6 was seeded to developers Monday, bringing a long list of changes, fixes and tweaks.

AppleInsider Staff 16 years ago 65

Steve Jobs' wealth shrinks; Mac online share grows

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is revealed to be the No. 43 wealthiest American with a net worth of $5.1 billion; and since the launch of Snow Leopard, the share of Mac OS X machines online has grown 5 percent.

Katie Marsal 16 years ago 24

Steve Ballmer: Safari a 'rounding error,' Mac losing market share

Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer went on the offensive against Apple in a recent interview, stating that Windows has gained market share on OS X, and that the browser Safari is a "rounding error."

Sam Oliver 16 years ago 219

Bargain price boosts Apple's Snow Leopard to swift sales start

With sales twice as high as Leopard and four times better than Tiger, Apple's new operating system, Snow Leopard, is off to a tremendous start, new sales figures show.

Katie Marsal 16 years ago 34

Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Malware Protection

Apple has enhanced the warnings Snow Leopard users get when directly downloading or opening disk images containing files known to be malicious. This article, the fifth in a series looking closer at some of Snow Leopard's well-known but often misrepresented or misunderstood features, examines what this really means for Mac users and their relative security.

Daniel Eran Dilger 16 years ago 47

Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Exchange Support

Windows Enthusiasts like to spin Apple's support for Exchange on the iPhone and in Snow Leopard as endorsement of Microsoft in the server space. From another angle, Apple is reducing its dependance upon Microsoft's client software, weakening Microsoft's ability to hold back and dumb down its Mac offerings at Apple's expense.

Daniel Eran Dilger 16 years ago 27

Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: GPU Optimization

As jingle-pundits desperately try to denigrate Snow Leopard as a "Service Pack," Apple's new operating system reference release actually expands the reach of the Mac platform in several important and under-reported new directions. Here's the third in a series looking closer at some of Snow Leopard's well-known, but often misrepresented or misunderstood features.

Daniel Eran Dilger 16 years ago 102

Alleged first Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.1 details revealed

Less than a week after Snow Leopard saw its official release, Apple has already supplied some developers with a beta of its first update, and supposed details are now beginning to come to light.

Sam Oliver 16 years ago 49

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