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Monday - May 5, 2008

I'm writing this from the Microsoft Management Summit at Interop with 5,000 of my closest friends in Las Vegas, and I'm still thinking about the book I brought up recently, titled Inside Steve's Brain. The result is, I think I've had an epiphany -- and no, I didn't call a doctor. I realized that for all Apple's impressive success, I was watching Microsoft demonstrate capabilities that are as far from what Apple is capable of doing as I am from writing the Great American Novel. Yet currently, Apple overshadows Microsoft in many critical areas. [More...]

Mac Bloggers Snoop Psystar, Sniff at AT&T Subsidy, Scrutinize iMac Speed Surge

Friday - May 2, 2008

It's been a busy week for hot topics in the Apple world. Bloggers have been debating the likelihood of AT&T offering a $200 price break on the iPhone, bickering over whether the first shipping Psystar "Hackintosh" is a good deal, nodding at speed-bumped iMacs, and sharing the joy for Canadians who will finally -- sometime this year -- get official iPhones. [More...]

The Fall of Reiser

Wednesday - April 30, 2008

It is unusual, but not unheard of, for a murder case to go forward if a body has not been found. It is even rarer for the charge to be first-degree murder -- and less common still for the defendant to be found guilty. Those were the exact circumstances, though, under which Hans Reiser was convicted Tuesday of the murder of his estranged wife, Nina. [More...]

How Live Mesh Will Reinvent Microsoft

Monday - April 28, 2008

Microsoft has just brought out the physical representation of its fifth major evolutionary change, and this one may turn out to be the most dramatic. The technology, Live Mesh, may actually both help Microsoft's customer satisfaction issues and help move Apple and Linux onto desktops everyplace. [More...]

The Foul Flavor of Force-Fed Vista

Friday - April 25, 2008

Costco and Sam's Club are rationing rice. Friday's reported incident in the Persian Gulf probably has more than a few paranoid individuals stocking up on gasoline. And to top it all off, Microsoft's cutoff date for Windows XP is coming in two months, a decision that's left over 165,000 fans of the OS so upset that they were willing to devote a full three seconds of their lives to sign an online petition to save XP. [More...]

The Secret Global War to Beat Apple

Monday - April 21, 2008

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been meeting with vendors all over the country that range from those that build PCs to those that build tools and parts, to those that build back-end solutions. One common message has come through. They all are targeting Apple as the company whose performance they most want to beat. [More...]

Is Psystar Onto Something?

Sunday - April 20, 2008

Macolytes around the world were buzzing this week with news that an online hardware vendor called "Psystar.com" is selling a US$555 PC called the "Open Computer" that runs the Macintosh OS X Leopard operating system. In fact, for about the same price, you can buy the machine with Windows or Leopard installed -- or buy it for $400 with the open source Linux operating system. [More...]

Mac Bloggers on a Psystar Feeding Frenzy

Friday - April 18, 2008

By far the biggest news this week has been the return of the Mac clones, courtesy of a tiny company in Florida doing business under the name "Psystar." While Psystar has sparked the imaginations -- and disdain -- of Mac lovers by offering a $399 PC capable of running Mac OS X, it hasn't been the only blog-worthy topic. [More...]

Fans Fight for XP's Life

Tuesday - April 15, 2008

Microsoft's operating systems run most personal computers around the globe and are a cash cow for the world's largest software maker. However, you'd never confuse a Windows user with the passionate fans of Mac OS X or even the free Linux operating system. Unless it's someone running Windows XP, a version Microsoft wants to retire. [More...]

Pondering Windows' Bloated Demise

Monday - April 14, 2008

Well, it was a relatively quiet week on the Linux blogs, and we can only speculate that everyone out there was feverishly working on their taxes. Yes indeed. Taxes, as we know all too well, are one of the few certainties in this world -- along with death, as our good friend Mr. Franklin so aptly noted. [More...]

Video Beating Stokes Debate Over Fame, Violence

Friday - April 11, 2008

For the eight Florida teens accused of imprisoning, beating and videotaping 16-year-old Victoria Lindsay as they brutalized her for more than half an hour, the events of March 30 have led to kidnapping and battery charges that cast a dark shadow over their future. For the rest of the world, the case has shone a bright light on the negative potential of the Internet. [More...]

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