Some companies — like Apple — seem to think that older versions of their software simply vanish from the world when new versions are released. Not only is that not true today, it’s never been true.

When old programmers like me (I'm 41) get together we talk about the applications from the old days. What happens to these beauties? The answer, obviously, is that their fate only matters if people ...

Napster plans to shut off old versions of its file-swapping software late Wednesday night to push a version that includes a new filter for blocking copyrighted music. Napster is funneling people to a ...

Open Source (and Free) Software provides a number of obvious, and often talked about, benefits – such as that whole “freedom” thing that the kids today like so much. But there’s one benefit of Open ...

Helmut Schwemmer wants to use a very old version of Managing Your Money on a new PC. But the program came on floppy disks. But getting the new PC to read the floppies may be the least of your worries.

In October 2022, after completing the acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk asked his team to work toward bringing Vine back to market. The team is likely now asking themselves if they should try to ...

We live in the golden age of cloud computing. Storing user data and preferences on the Internet makes our multi-device lives easier than ever before. Data input on one device is often seamlessly ...

Software companies are facing a reckoning as AI lowers barriers to entry. Experts share how to find winners in an evolving competitive landscape. Salesforce's stock has fallen this year, and investors ...

The Internet Archive’s new Historical Software Archive brings old software to your browser through the magic of JSMESS emulation. The Internet Archive has protected and preserved old software for a ...

It’s been a long time coming, but having your Mac tell you that some of your apps will stop working brings some immediacy to the issue: If there’s a 32-bit Mac app you rely on to get work done, and it ...

U.S. and European software companies have seen their shares sell off on the back of artificial-intelligence jitters in recent days — and big questions about the future of the software sector are ...