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New tools should help developers bring their extensions over from Chrome or Opera, but existing extensions may have trouble surviving the shift. Mozilla is pushing ahead with a plan to block unsigned Firefox browser extensions, though it’s offering better developer tools as consolation. As Mozilla has previously indicated, it will soon require a security check … Read more
Apple’s dug itself into a hole with the iPad, but now is the time to change everything (again). We’ve got a big fall ahead of us. New versions of iOS and OS X. As ever, a new iPhone (or iPhones). A new Apple TV. But for the first time in a while, it’s the iPad … Read more
With Windows 10, Microsoft is doing away with the conventional product key for digital installs. You may never have to manage product keys again. A funny thing happens when you look for a product key in Windows 10 after doing the free upgrade: You won’t find them. In Windows 10, utilities like Magical Jelly Bean … Read more
Update: Apple has released a public beta version of OS X El Capitan It’s been seven months and counting since Apple’s iOS-inspired OS X 10.10 Yosemite leapt onto the Mac. Attention has now turned to the next major release of OS X, which is expected to be named – you guessed it – OS X … Read more
Even if you get the free upgrade, everything from Cortana to Xbox has its ways of making you pay. Windows 10 isn’t really free. Realizing why and how it isn’t really free can help you understand why installing the operating system on 1 billion systems by 2017 is such a big deal for Microsoft—and why … Read more
