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 ...

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 ...

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 Lion Apple decided to hide the Library folder where most of your configuration and cache files are located. This is fine for most people, but for those of us who like to tinker it's a bit ...

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, ...

Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in ...

Rick Henningsen has a Photos Library question: I want to move my Photos Library from the boot drive to a larger external drive. I suspect that I should not just move it in the Finder and then ...