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's latest OS X upgrade can breathe new life into your old Mac. WSJ’s Joanna Stern reviews the free software. Photo/video: Drew Evans/The Wall Street Journal. If it weren’t for the crumbs lodged ...

El Capitan, OS X 10.11 (), arrives for everyone September 30, but I’ve been using it all summer. In these days of free operating-system updates, major OS X updates feel a whole lot more routine than ...

One thing is clear at this point: Apple is pretty happy with how OS X looks, feels, and functions. The improvements they’ve made over the past several updates have been strictly evolutionary. Nothing ...

The computer software makes common actions easier, such as letting users view two open windows at once with a split-view screen. Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET News, overseeing a team ...

Apple is scheduled to release the next version of OS X - OS X 10.11 'El Capitan' - later today, which means that you still have time to carry out some last-minute preparations ahead of the upgrade.

You can downgrade to OS X El Capitan from macOS Sierra if you don’t like the performance of the update or run into too many macOS Sierra problems. Here’s how to downgrade macOS Sierra to OS X El ...

Apple today released OS X 10.11 El Capitan to the public, making the newest Mac operating system available for free to Mac users around the world. OS X El Capitan went through eight developer betas ...

Following the release of the golden master version of OS X 10.11 El Capitan to developers earlier in the month, the first reviews for the newest iteration on Apple's desktop operating system have ...

NEW YORK — Apple’s choice of “El Capitan” as the name of the successor to Mac OS X Yosemite bears a subtle underlying message: As operating system upgrades go, El Capitan is rather modest, certainly ...