When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

In brief: The meme that Macs are more stable and secure than Windows devices has lingered since at least Apple's famous "Get a Mac" advertising campaign from two decades ago. However, a recent study ...

Apple’s new $599 MacBook Neo, with its A18 Pro chip and just 8GB of RAM, is good enough for running Windows 11 in a virtual machine with Parallels Desktop for Mac. Parallels conducted extensive ...

The era of Windows 10 support ended on Oct. 14 of last year. After more than a decade, Microsoft is prioritizing updates for the latest OS, Windows 11, and has thus stopped providing security updates ...

Bitwarden announced support for logging into Windows 11 devices using passkeys stored in the manager's vault, enabling phishing-resistant authentication. The new feature is available for all plans, ...

The Asus NUC 16 and Dell Pro Desktop for Windows 365, both arriving in Q3 2026, are the latest “Cloud PCs” from Microsoft, following the Windows 365 Link from 2024. They’re designed for businesses ...

Windows Sandbox is a built-in Windows 10 and 11 feature that lets you safely install and test unknown apps in a fully isolated, disposable environment. It runs a lightweight copy of Windows, deletes ...

A Swift-based local server for macOS that bridges GitHub Copilot with Xcode's Code Intelligence. It acts as an OpenAI-compatible proxy, translating Xcode's requests into GitHub Copilot API calls. No ...

Jason Chun is a CNET writer covering a range of topics in tech, home, wellness, finance and streaming services. He is passionate about language and technology, and has been an avid writer/reader of ...

Apple is bringing agentic coding to Xcode. On Tuesday, the company announced the release of Xcode 26.3, which will allow developers to use agentic tools, including Anthropic’s Claude Agent and ...

Windows has access to a vast selection of free, paid, open-source, and proprietary applications. While you can find many of these in the bundled Microsoft Store, others are scattered across the ...