Could there be a day when the desktop or mobile operating system you use and developers program to don't matter? The age-old question may not be answered any time soon and don't expect to see any of ...

Microsoft has begun taking the wraps off its hush-hush "Drawbridge" application-virtualization project. "Drawbridge" is a Microsoft Research project developed by some of the same folks who helped ...

At Microsoft, what comes after the "Singularity" microkernel? The answer may be "Drawbridge," a cousin of the exokernel concept. Microsoft researchers have built a "library" operating system (OS) ...

In OS X, user accounts are structured so that most user settings and resources that applications need are located in the Library folder. As a result, when troubleshooting various problems with ...

In Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple set things up so that the user Library folder isn’t available to the casual user. This is probably to keep less savvy folks from getting in there and messing about with ...

Back in OS X Lion and then again in OS X Mountain Lion, Apple hid access to the user Library folder to prevent neophyte OS X users from messing around in the areas of the file system that could cause ...

Apple’s latest app Photos is now available for free as part of OS X 10.10.3 for Mac. The new app is the future of photo management from Apple with support for iCloud Photo Library, burst photos, ...

Apple on Wednesday released OS X Yosemite version 10.10.3, bringing with it the company's long-promised Photos app, as well as a collection of bug fixes and security improvements. Photos replaces ...

COMPanion Corporation is planning a Carbonized version of its Alexandria library automation software for Mac OS X. Currently in beta testing, it will be released this spring. “Alexandria users running ...