Apple working on new media apps for Windows
A recent job listing reveals Apple is looking to grow its presence on Windows with new media-centric apps, potentially hinting at plans to expand beyond the company's current iTunes and iCloud offerings.
Windows
Mikey Campbell
How Apple's dramatic rise in computing flipped an OS myth
The history of personal computing is often told in terms of operating systems: the dramatic battle between IBM's DOS PC vs Apple's Macintosh; the emergence of fiefdoms of promising independents such as Amiga OS, NeXTSTEP and BeOS; and ultimately the crushing destruction of any PC OS competition under the homogenous, global and permanent rule of Microsoft's Windows platform. But these stories often resulted in inaccurate conclusions, because the OS platform wasn't the only important factor in picking winners and losers.
Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple's iTunes for Windows update closes off ransomware attack vector
Apple has patched an exploit in Bonjour, iTunes, and iCloud for Windows that was an open door for ransomware to attack systems.
Mike Wuerthele
Duet Display update will allow Mac users to extend displays to Android tablets
Shortly before Apple releases its Sidecar feature in macOS Catalina to allow Mac screen mirroring and extension onto iPads, the makers Duet Display are soon to release a version that will allow users to use an Android tablet as a Mac display.
William Gallagher
How to watch today's new iPhone event live
Wherever you are, and whatever devices you've got with you, you'll be able to watch Apple unveil the new 2019 iPhones live. Here's how.
New Spectre-style Intel chip flaw can leak user data, but only in Windows
PC users and those who are running Windows on a Mac may want to take a moment to update their operating systems, as a new flaw in Intel and ARM chips has been exposed.
Amber Neely
How to speed up working on your Mac by making windows snap into position
Get your Mac to rearrange all of those overlapping document windows you've got, and instead make it possible to see what you need, when you need it.
Microsoft's Stranger Things campaign creates a fake legacy for Windows 1.0
Microsoft is running a retro-styled advertising campaign tied into the new third season of Netflix's "Stranger Things" TV series, which is set in 1985. It promotes fake nostalgia for a romanticized Windows launch that in reality was only scoffed at as underpowered, poorly-built vaporware at the time.
Editorial: No Bill Gates, Windows was not iPhone's 'natural' nemesis
Microsoft's former chief executive Bill Gates mused this week that it would have been the "natural thing" for Microsoft to have been the "standard non-Apple phone platform." But he's wrong, and here's why.
Malcolm Owen
Roger Fingas
Christine McKee
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