The next version of Apple's Mac software is available for download. CNET explains where you can get it and how to use it. Kent was a senior managing editor at CNET News. A veteran of CNET since 2003, ...

Apple issued beta versions of Safari 10 for OS X 10.11 El Capitan and OS X 10.10 Yosemite on Thursday, granting developers access to new features like enhanced Safari Extensions, a redesigned ...

Apple has announced that its next Mac operating system will be called OS X El Capitan. The software was revealed on stage at the Worldwide Developers Conference by the company's software chief Craig ...

Both Microsoft and Apple claim their new operating systems are sleeker and faster than ever before. But OS upgrades are often fraught with trouble. We decided to pit these two champion OSs against ...

Apple today released OS X 10.11.4 to the public, marking the launch of the third update to the El Capitan operating system that was first released on September 30. In testing since January 11, OS X 10 ...

Earlier this week, Apple released OS X 10.11 El Capitan on the Mac App Store. With some important under-the-hood improvements and a handful of new features, this upgrade is definitely worth your time.

Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

Apple has released OS X 10.11 El Capitan to the public, and all users with compatible Macs are able to download the updated version of Apple’s desktop operating system for free from the Mac App Store.

If you’re one of the many people for whom El Capitan essentially killed Office 2016 for the Mac, you’ve finally got a fix. OS X 10.11.1 is out, and it appears to fix the problem. When El Capitan was ...

Apple today released OS X 10.11.6 to the public, marking the sixth update to the El Capitan operating system that was first released on September 30, 2015. OS X 10.11.6 comes two months after the ...

Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac (build 11.0.2) supports El Capitan as both a host and guest, as well as Windows 10 and dozens of other operating systems as a guest, and now offers the best of both worlds ...

Three years ago to the day, Apple added in two-step verification to help improve user security. The verification method relied on the user having another device readily available to help authenticate ...