http://www.computerworld.com/ en_US (c) Copyright 2009 Computerworld, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:42:52 GMT 2009-11-08T13:42:52Z en_US (c) Copyright 2009 Computerworld, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140462/Switchers_Guide_Run_Windows_on_a_Mac?source=rss_opsys These days, buying a Mac doesn't mean you have to leave Windows behind. In 2005, Apple started building Macs with Intel processors. Among the other benefits of that switch: You can run Microsoft's operating system on Apple's hardware. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:20:00 GMT (Harry McCracken) http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140462/Switchers_Guide_Run_Windows_on_a_Mac?source=rss_opsys 2009-11-06T19:20:00Z http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140461/Switchers_Guide_Moving_hardware_and_software_to_Mac?source=rss_opsys When you're switching from a Windows PC to a Mac, there's one piece of good news: Most of the peripherals you used with your PC--including printers, digital cameras, networking equipment, external drives, and scanners--should work fine with your Mac. The best way to confirm that is to plug each piece of hardware into your new Mac, one at a time; if OS X doesn't automatically identify it and set it up, visit the manufacturer's Web site and look for a downloadable driver. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:20:00 GMT (Harry McCracken) http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140461/Switchers_Guide_Moving_hardware_and_software_to_Mac?source=rss_opsys 2009-11-06T19:20:00Z http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140459/Switchers_Guide_Move_your_files_from_PC_to_Mac?source=rss_opsys If you've been using a Windows PC but now want to move to a Mac, you likely have files--documents, PDFs, photos, music, and videos--that you want to bring with you. If you've had that PC for a while, that could mean you have many, many gigabytes of stuff to move. These days, most common file-types will work just fine on the Mac, without any need for conversion or special software. (One notable exception: If you have music and/or video in Microsoft's Windows Media formats, get Flip4Mac so you can play them in OS X's QuickTime.) The trick is getting those files from one hard drive to another. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:19:00 GMT (Harry McCracken) http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140459/Switchers_Guide_Move_your_files_from_PC_to_Mac?source=rss_opsys 2009-11-06T19:19:00Z http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140458/Switchers_Guide_Moving_from_Windows_to_the_Mac?source=rss_opsys [Editors' note: We asked Harry McCracken, the former editor of PC World and the editor of the Technologizer blog, to write a guide to switching to the Mac from Windows. We hope that it's a good resource for anyone--including the friends and family of long-time Mac users--who are making the move from Windows to the Mac. McCracken is himself a semi-switcher--he uses both a MacBook Pro and a Windows netbook every day.] Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:19:00 GMT (Harry McCracken) http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140458/Switchers_Guide_Moving_from_Windows_to_the_Mac?source=rss_opsys 2009-11-06T19:19:00Z http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140447/Has_Microsoft_placed_its_last_mobile_bet_?source=rss_opsys When Microsoft first started talking about building mobile-phone software back in the late 1990s, handset makers that had been in the market for years scoffed. Sure, Microsoft was a huge software developer, but making software for mobile devices is different and more complicated than for PCs, they argued. After all, by the late '90s, some companies had already spent decades developing their mobile platforms. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:08:00 GMT (Nancy Gohring) http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140447/Has_Microsoft_placed_its_last_mobile_bet_?source=rss_opsys 2009-11-06T17:08:00Z http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140446/Microsoft_battles_on_in_mobile_search_and_the_cloud?source=rss_opsys As Microsoft launches Windows 7 and seeks to banish the ghost of its less-than-successful Vista OS, it is fighting to defend its primacy as the world's leading software company. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:07:00 GMT (IDG News Service staff) http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140446/Microsoft_battles_on_in_mobile_search_and_the_cloud?source=rss_opsys 2009-11-06T17:07:00Z http://www.computerworld.com/s/topic/125/Windows View more Windows news and analysis from Computerworld.com http://www.computerworld.com/s/topic/125/Windows