Mac OS

Exit Apple senior VP Bertrand Serlet

One of the architects of Mac OS X -- and a top Steve Jobs lieutenant -- is out

"I've worked with Steve [Jobs] for 22 years and have had an incredible time developing products at both NeXT and Apple, but at this point, I want to focus less on products and more on science."

Spending more time with science, rather than one's family, is not the usual reason given for MORE

How the Mac App store could blow up the software market

Every application developer from Microsoft to the shareware maker in the basement is watching to see how Apple's forthcoming OSX application store will change the dynamics of the software industry.

By John Patrick Pullen, contributor

This time of year, the vision of elves working away in Santa's workshop is on the minds of many — especially Mac application programmers. That's because for them, with the rumored impending launch of the Mac App MORE

What Steve Jobs has up his sleeve

A leading Apple analyst offers his Worldwide Developers Conference checklist

The developers conference that begins June 7 is likely to be "a non-event" for Apple's (AAPL) share price, according to Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, with few surprises.

But in the note to clients he issued Wednesday he adds that the new iPhone he expects Steve Jobs to introduce will likely drive unit sales beyond Wall Street's targets -- "providing a positive MORE

What's wrong with Windows 7 - update

Reading between the lines of Walt Mossberg and David Pogue's reviews

It's a given that Windows 7, scheduled for release Thursday, is an improvement over Vista. But how does it stack up against Apple's (AAPL) Snow Leopard?

At moments like this we look to the well-compensated deans of tech journalism: The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg and the New York Times' David Pogue.

The caveats in Mossberg's review were summarized  here two weeks MORE

Mac 'market share' hits record 8.28%

The presence on the Internet of both the Mac and the iPhone grew smartly this summer, registering record numbers for each operating system in the Net Applications survey issued overnight Wednesday.

The Mac's share of Web hits grew 5.34% to a record 8.28% last month, according to the Web metrics firm's September survey. The iPhone's share, having surged 57% -- from 0.19% to 0.30% -- in August (see here), grew another MORE

Survey: Programmers shunning Vista for Mac OS and Linux

"Developers," a VP at Electronic Arts once told me, explaining why there were so many me-too Windows applications, "will walk through the desert in their socks to get to an installed base."

True enough. But it doesn't quite explain the results of a survey issued last week by Evans Data Corp. The headline was that most developers are still not targeting Windows Vista when they write new apps. Only 8% MORE