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When I started writing this column back in 1992, the world of personal technology was positively primitive compared with where we stand today. So armed with the benefit of 15 years of hindsight, and in this final installment of the Mossberg Report, I’d like to take a look back on the distance we’ve traveled in [...]
You can’t turn around without reading scary stories about the dangers of the Internet — spyware, adware, viruses, spam. But the biggest trend to worry about is the combining of these nefarious tools for criminal purposes. Spam email used to be annoying; now it may lead you to phony web sites set up by identity [...]
It used to be that if you switched from a PC running the Windows operating system to the small-selling but elegant Macintosh, you had to leave behind your Windows programs. Sure, there was one software product that allowed you to run Windows on a Mac and thus run Windows programs. But it was so slow [...]
Apple Computer is gradually replacing its entire Macintosh lineup. The cutting-edge company, which turned 30 in April, already makes the best-designed hardware, the best operating system and the most-secure machines in the consumer-PC market. Now it’s performing a brain transplant on the Mac.
Starting in January, six months earlier than promised, Apple began switching the Mac [...]
When the vast majority of the world’s PC users want to surf the Web, they fire up Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, the free browser that comes included with Windows, now in version 6.0. They may not even know its name, since it’s usually the only, or at least the preset default, choice for browsing on a [...]
When it came out in 2001, Windows XP was a very nice operating system, far slicker and more reliable than previous versions of Windows. But XP is getting long in the tooth. It has been patched so often to plug egregious security flaws that it is barely recognizable as the sleek, stable product that debuted [...]
Apple’s Macintosh computers claim only a tiny share of the overall PC market, but they are getting more consideration from Windows users thinking of switching than at any time in many years.
The daunting security problems that have plagued Windows have also prompted many of its users to take a serious look at the Mac. This [...]
The graphical user interface has been a success in the mass market since the Apple Macintosh debuted in 1984, and it has dominated computing since Microsoft Windows went mainstream around 1990.
Its visual display of files stored in a nested hierarchy of folders has worked pretty well — until recently.
In the past few years, computer hard [...]
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