Windows Vista beaten to the punch by Linux? Unthinkable!

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

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.

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

Centrify brings Active Directory to Unix and Mac.

Centrify brings Active Directory to Unix and Mac.

Centrify brings Active Directory to Unix and Mac.

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

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.

One of the best-publicised alternative OSes is the MacOS. Theres a long rivalry between PC and Macintosh users. Both sides believe passionately in their OS, a fact which, in the past, has led t

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

Ever wondered what a particular acronym stands for? Find the answer in our comprehensive reference guide to computer industry acronyms. RTFM!

An Automated System Maintenance program for Mac OS X. Macaroni is a tool which handles regular ma...

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.

Not Apache, MySQL or Firefox, but lesser-known apps that serve a particular function very well – a Top Ten of open-source applications you’ve never heard of.

Eighteen months after the release of Panther, Apple's Mac OS X 10.4, codenamed Tiger, is finally here, and it has been well worth the wait.

Tactile Interrogator provides a rich, graphical file view of Mac OS X's powerful Unix underpinnings....

Company commits to porting open-source suite.

Why do GNOME and KDE compete for the Linux desktop?