Apple announced on Wednesday that Bertrand Serlet, the company's senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering and a man who has worked with Steve Jobs for 22 years, is leaving the company. Serlet ...

So I'm backing up my classic Mac OS software: Applications, Application installers, extensions, and other files. As we all know the classic Mac OS is fond of data and resource forks and not file ...

Apple's security layers fight the good fight, but malware and suspect applications can still be installed if warnings are ...

Mac developers are currently in the midst of a major hardware architecture transition. But for some app makers, this is the third time that they have done this. Although the transition is expected to ...

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 ...

Apple is bringing new AI features and a shiny new look to its gadgets. The software updates are available today.

(For those new to the column, Forward Migration is our term for companies moving from Wintel machines to Macs — or at least adding or increasing the number of Macs they use. A forward migration kit is ...

If you are working on a computer that bears the Apple logo, you are natively running an operating system called macOS, short for Mac operating system. First introduced back in 1984 for the legendary ...

OS Tahoe, Apple's latest operating system for Macs, is launching on Monday, September 15, but it's important to know that ...

On the 20th anniversary of macOS, longtime PCMag contributor Edward Mendelson rhapsodizes about just what makes Apple's software so unique. Furthermore, it seems to have been getting everything right ...

It’s an age-old question among Apple fans: Does your Mac need antivirus software? Traditionally, the popular answer has been no — Macs have strong built-in protections, the argument goes, and ...