What’s interesting in the war of words between Bruce Chizen of Adobe and Dan’l Lewin of Microsoft is that Dan’l used to work at Apple and has a perspective from Apple’s old days that Microsoft software was essential to the … Continue reading
This is how Microsoft gets away with “interoperability” — co-opting proven standards (like XML) and turning them into Microsoft pseudo-standards, which are then set as defaults for the program while offering the real standards as options.
Continue readingI once wrote that supposed vulnerabilities in Apple Macs are just tempests in a teacup; that editors (and mainstream bloggers) should remember that when they bend over backwards to give security firms and contests free publicity in exchange for exciting … Continue reading
Updates, patches, and configurations for Microsoft Windows PCs throw businesses for a loop, and slowly the IT departments of these businesses are responding. And they’re not jumping on the Windows Vista bandwagon. Bottom line, if a business outfits hundreds of … Continue reading