
Both also offer some cloud backup, with iCloud and OneDrive, as well. Windows 10 and Windows 11 include a File History feature and a full disk backup feature, and macOS includes its Time Machine software. Backup software and services do just that.īoth Windows and macOS have beefed up their built-in backup tools in recent years. Your business assets-documents, plans, financial spreadsheets-as well as your personal assets-family photos, videos, and music-deserve to be protected. Sometimes data loss happens for reasons beyond the technological, as in the case of theft or natural disasters. Hard drive failure is a common occurrence, and ransomware can make a computer's contents inaccessible. All technology, whether it's a brand-new iMac or a ten-year-old PC running Windows 7, can potentially take a sudden nosedive. If it can happen to a big corporation like Delta, don't think it can't happen to you.

Several years ago Delta Airlines had to cancel more than 1,300 flights, at a cost of $100 million, not because of weather or mechanical problems, but because the company's computer systems went down.
