All right, you know the spin. Apple’s “Top Secret” slide at the WWDC keynote means there are a number of super-significant Leopard features that’ll remain under wraps, because they don’t want Microsoft to copy them for Vista. Of course, common sense argues against that story, since Microsoft is an Apple developer and would get its […]

The suspense is building in intensity, and rumors and speculation about the form and shape of the next Mac OS are starting to take shape. I wouldn’t presume to have the patience to summarize all the stories, but a few are worth mentioning. One report actually claims that Leopard will be delayed, which seems rather […]

Sometimes I put up a headline mostly for the entertainment value, but I’m fairly serious about this one. Mac OS X needs a fair amount of fixing, and a few hundred of those ahead of a few hundred bits of eye candy might be just the ticket. Now, I can imagine that many of you […]

To be sure, Mac users have had to undergo lots of change in the past twelve years. First there was that transition from 680×0 to PowerPC. It meant that applications had to be recoded to support the new processor technology, and the older stuff, even most of the operating system, ran in emulation. At first, […]