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Byline: Preeti Anand With the recent announcement made at the 'It's Glowtime' event, Apple revealed a number of innovative AI-driven features that go under the Apple Intelligence. Later this year, [...]

Q. I imported a list of clients from another accounting firm into Intuit Lacerte, and now I need to adjust some data on every one of those clients. I could [...]

Byline: Boudhaditya Sanyal Xiaomi's phones have been popular in the Indian market for quite some time now. There are multiple reasons behind this popularity. The brand has continuously worked towards [...]

MICROSOFT'S WINDOWS 10 MOBILE operating system may be a second-tier OS, but it's not second-rate. With its new smartphone OS, Microsoft has doubled down on the productivity message, crafting a [...]

Byline: Consulting Editor Tech giant Apple has provided a glimpse at the upcoming iOS 13 features that introduces a dark mode new tools to edit photos, using Apple ID to [...]

WE MAY AS well refer to Windows 10 as a date, or an hour, as much as an operating system. It's a moment in time. A month from now, it [...]

EVEN THOUGH ITS big annual Build conference didn't kick off until the end of April, Microsoft dropped their Windows 10 Technical Preview build 10061 (go.pcworld.com/wl0prebuildl0016) a week early. Unlike the [...]

DESPITE STILL BEING very much an early preview, Windows 10 is already brimming with dozens of handy tweaks and tricks--and, because the operating is still in preview, a handful of [...]

MY INITIAL EXPERIENCE with Windows 8 inspired bafflement and frustration. But I walked away from my first few minutes with Windows 10 feeling jealous: It looks like a significant improvement, [...]

MICROSOFT'S WINDOWS PHONE 8.1 Update 1 started rolling out in early August, but don't get excited. Windows Phone 8.1 deserved a lot of attention, but I can't say the same [...]

Os x yosemite is a major--with a capital m--revision to apple's computer operating system. that revision starts with an ios 7-inspired visual makeover but though many people expected that face-lift [...]

When Apple releases a new version of OS X, we tend to stick with the way we did things in the old OS, ignoring fresh features in the new one. [...]

(1) The native Messaging app surrenders to Skype * In Windows 8, the Messaging app handled IM capabilities. No more: Microsoft has kicked Messaging to the curb, replacing it with [...]

The experience of switching to iOS 7 is a bit like an American going to Europe: Some things might look superficially different at first, but beneath the unfamiliar veneer, things [...]

MICROSOFT IS poised to release Windows 8.1 (go. pcworld.com/win81access), a deep and crucial revamping of the Windows 8 ideal. The code is final (though Microsoft reserves the right to tweak [...]

ONE YEAR AND one week since it released OS X Lion (aka OS X 10.7), Apple has released its successor, OS X Mountain Lion. Like Lion, Mountain Lion adds numerous [...]

THE BEST AND WORST THING ABOUT WINDOWS 8 is that it's different--unmistakably, inescapably different. Microsoft obviously believes that the dramatic changes it has introduced in Windows 8 are necessary to [...]

PHOTOGRAPHY.BY PETER BF.LANGER Ever since the original bipod, Apple's non-Mac devices have been viewed as - accessories: You bought an ipod to go with your computer. Your phone synced data [...]

Mac OS X has been around for more than ten years. You'd think that by now there wouldn't be much room for improvement. But Apple has released a new version [...]

The new iOS 4.3 brings a couple of significant enhancements--Personal Hotspot and Home Sharing--as well as some smaller niceties. But, as with iOS 4.0, those improvements will be available only [...]

JIM THOMAS said no to Windows Vista--but Windows 7 is an entirely different matter. Thomas, CIO at Pella Corp., says his IT team began beta-testing Vista's successor a year ago [...]

PCW Test Center WINDOWS VISTA NEVER was particularly speedy in most people's eyes. Whether it deserved the reputation or not, the word on the street was that Vista was both […]

Everything you need to know about Mac OS X 10.6 In June 2008, Apple announced that its next version of Mac OS X--Snow Leopard, or Mac OS X 10.6--would ship […]

THE 'SMART' IN smart phones comes from the software they run. Today's smart phones are pocketable, Net-connected personal computers, and the OSs they use have a huge impact on their […]

The fifth major update to Mac OS X, Leopard contains so many features--more than 300 by Apple's count--that it's difficult to boil down the $129 operating system release to a […]

ONCE, YOU WERE either a Mac person or a Windows user. Or maybe you were a Unix geek. Whichever your poison, you likely had only one operating system in your […]

WITH MICROSOFT'S Windows Vista finally released to manufacturers and on the verge of making its way to retail, we can at last get down to the business of examining precisely […]

Has any operating system been so maligned and so praised during a painfully long development cycle as Windows Vista? The march to Vista's launch has sometimes seemed longer than the […]

HERE AT PC WORLD, we've become pretty good at fixing Windows' many annoyances, but even we can't do it all. As a longtime Windows user, I've bent my Windows PCs […]

AS one of the beneficiaries of Apple's 30-year tradition in developing innovative technology and building rock-solid computers, you no doubt bought your Mac because you wanted an easy-to-learn-and-live-with machine that […]

Byline: Jim Lynch Google recently released a developer preview version of Android N, and many Android users have been wondering about it. A writer at Engadget has a first look [...]

On July 29, 2015, Microsoft launched its latest version of the Windows operating system, Windows 10, to the world at large. Windows 10 represents a continuation of its move to [...]

THE BASICS What's the biggest change with iOS 7? Where to begin? The entire look and feel has seen an overhaul, with flatter icons, less skeuomorphism, and thinner typefaces. That [...]

IT'S WHAT'S INSIDE that counts. Though whipping Windows 8 might be all the rage right now, Windows didn't become the all-encompassing king of the desktop out of sheer luck. Here [...]