Macworld In various ways, this year’s Apple operating system updates (iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 and so on) represented a major departure from the past, from the new version numbering system to the ...

The Basilisk II emulator can be used to run old versions of Mac OS 8 and System 7 on a modern Mac. Here's how to get started using it. Before macOS and OS X, there was Mac OS 9, and before that were ...

OS X may be retired, but it deserves to be remembered. Take a trip back with these 14 key milestones in the double-decade history of the operating system that helped transform a nearly bankrupt Apple ...

The Mac’s newest operating system, macOS Sonoma, is now available. Sonoma’s launch follows the launch of the iPhone 15 series and the iPhone’s iOS 17 operating system last week. This new macOS ...

OS X changed the game for Apple. Image: Killian Bell/Cult of Mac OS X, the most important piece of software in Apple history, turns 20 today. Going on sale in its full, public version on March 24, ...

Apple cancelled its next-generation MacOS "Copland." Copland, which was to have been "MacOS 8," was replaced with NeXTstep, ...

Many people remember Mac OS X 10.6.8 fondly. Not just 10.6 Snow Leopard, but particularly its very mature 10.6.8 release, the final one in that series. It’s considered a stable and perfectly fine ...

It’s highly unlikely Apple will ever give us an iPad that runs macOS — and that’s OK. Because with a few tricks (that do not require a jailbreak), you can ...

Sources close to Apple's Mac OS 9 development team recently presented AppleInsider with information that suggested Apple, at the hands of CEO, Steve Jobs, made an extra effort to keep Mac OS 9.1 a ...

You’re likely familiar with the old tale about how Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple and started his own company, NeXT. Apple then bought NeXT and their technologies and brought Jobs back as CEO once ...

Apple has spent the last decade building and improving Mac OS X, fusing the classic Mac OS and technology acquired from Steve Jobs’s Next into an impressive mainstream operating system that’s widely ...

I need to add a second search domain for my Mac OS X client workstations which running 10.5 and 10.6. I have configured my Windows 2008 server with DHCP Option 119 (search domains). It doesn't appear ...