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MacOS succeeded the classic Mac OS, a Macintosh operating system from 1984 to 2001. Within the market of desktop and laptop computers, it is the second most widely used desktop OS, after Microsoft Windows and ahead of Linux (including ChromeOS).

It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers. Free, without asterisks and on your schedule.MacOS ( / ˌ m æ k oʊ ˈ ɛ s/ previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc.

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macOS Sierra is the latest in a long line of Apple desktop operating systems that are free forever.Īlso, Apple lets you update your operating system when you're ready, unlike Microsoft, which forced the issue for Windows 10 and is currently taking months to roll Anniversary Update out to the masses.

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Would you rather live by your computer's schedule, or make it adapt to your own? While Microsoft made upgrading from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 free for its first year, the company told users to expect the operating system to cost $119 after July 29 2016. Apple's cross-platform integration is hard to beat. Also, you'll be able to activate ApplePay on your Mac with the TouchID sensor on your iPhone or Apple Watch. Apple also introducing Auto Unlock, which will let you sign into your Mac with your Apple Watch. Windows 10 Anniversary Update added the ability to send SMS messages through your phone from your PC, but it can't take calls from your phone, which Macs can.Īpple's added even greater synergy between iPhones and Macs with Sierra with the new Universal Clipboard, which lets you copy text on one device and paste it in the other. Since Apple produces both Macs and iPhones, the company has the power to make them work in harmony. You can surf in peace with Safari's mutable tabs, and Edge can't beat that. And while Edge may let you annotate pages with notes and doodles, that's not enough to make up for the lack of mutes. Edge forces you to go into a tab, figure out why it's playing sound and manually mute it. Unfortunately, Edge extensions have been few and far bweeen, and if app development for Windows 10 is any indicator, Edge may have a hard time catching up with Safari in terms of numbers of available extensions.īoth browsers let you pin tabs that you always want to read, but of the two, only Safari lets you mute noisy tabs. The biggest change happening on either platform is that Microsoft's Edge browser finally got extensions in Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Both platforms added potentially great new features that users will hopefully enjoy.

Also, multiple Mac owners will appreciate the option to mirror their desktop and Document folder files across all Macs running Sierra.

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Snap-happy Mac users will also be eager to upgrade to macOS Sierra, as the Photos app has gained improved facial recognition, options to search by objects and people and Memories, an easy way to turn photos into slideshows. In a demonstration at the WWDC 2016 Keynote, this freed 130GB of space on a 250GB hard drive. Meanwhile on macOS Sierra, Apple's most interesting new feature is Optimized Storage, which stores files you don't access often on Apple's iCloud servers. Unfortunately, our months of testing Ink proved the feature to be more toy than tool. Windows 10's other major new feature is Ink, which translates notes written with your stylus or finger on the screen into text notes.

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Microsoft introduced the option for Windows 10 PC and Xbox One owners to play against (or with) each other in games. Special Featuresīoth Windows 10 Anniversary Update and macOS Sierra allow you to unlock your device with a device (your phone on a PC and an Apple Watch on a Mac), but their other new special features differ greatly. Winner: Draw. Siri's arrival brings macOS to parity, but it doesn't surpass Cortana. In addition, while both Siri and Cortana offer dashboards for their assistants where you can see the results, only macOS lets you drag and drop those results onto documents you're working on. Cortana has one leg up on Siri: it accepts both verbal and typed commands, while you can only speak to Siri. In our testing, not only could Cortana answer the question 'Who is the presdient of the U.S.?' but when we asked 'how old is he?' it informed us that Barack Obama is 54 years old. In the keynote presentation at WWDC, Craig Federighi got Siri to whittle down his file search for images to just the photos that Ken had sent him that Craig tagged as Drafts. While Siri can help manage files and Cortana can send news notifications, both now handle contextual follow-up questions.

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