We provide the commentary on a bruising eight-round battle between Vista and Tiger.

Want to break free from a Microsoft world? Leigh Dyer looks at the alternatives.

Apple’s ads may be funny, but they’re woefully inaccurate. Here we reveal dozens of reasons why the PC outclasses the Mac.

PC Authority takes a trip down computer memory lane and discovers just how PC technology has evolved... and how Microsoft and IBM nearly destroyed each other.

Leigh Dyer arrives in OS heaven with a triple-booting Intel Mac.

We test the big three OSes on level ground - Boot Camp.

The Mac OS X 10.4 client codenamed Tiger brought some 200 new features, notably Spotlight, Apple's new desktop search technology, on its release last Friday.

We never thought we’d see it happen, but now you can run Windows XP natively on a Mac.

Protect your PC from itself and yourself

Leigh Dyer looks at Sun’s attempts to keep Solaris relevant in a Linux world.

Windows Vista is here, but does Microsoft’s ground-breaking OS live up to its promise? We put Vista through an extensive road test.

Will a beefed-up firewall, User Account Control and disk encryption make Vista a safer choice than XP?

Founded in 1990, Be originally marketed its BeOS operating system on its proprietary hardware platform the BeBox. The BeBox went the way of the dinosaurs, however, and the company officially ceased to

One of the longest running battles in the computer industry has been between open systems and closed proprietary ones. The term closed refers to systems where the standards are set by the manufacturer

Windows virtualisation that really works: it isn’t without foibles, but it’s a great way of running Windows from OS X.

Windows owns the lions share of the PC OS market but there are alternatives. PC Authoritys experts give you the low-down. Microsoft claims that of the 300 million PCs on the planet, 200 m

Proof-of-concept code could run without user knowledge.

It's a little ironic that every new version of Mac OS comes closer to Windows when you consider that Microsoft was originally accused of hijacking Apple's interface. Apple claims to have put 150 new features into Panther, but the two it highlights first are improvements to Finder and the new Exposé[alt+0233 in courier new]. The improvements to Finder bring it one step closer to the Windows menu system, which since 95 has been superior to Apple's. The new one click-reveals-all Finder was sorely needed and makes Panther much easier to navigate than its predecessors.

Apple Computer's OS X and the open-source BSD operating system provide the "world's safest and most secure" computing platforms, according to London-based security firm mi2g.

The Sony PEG-NV70X Clie marks a welcome shift in the PDA landscape from the Pocket PC, with a few firsts up its sleeves.