The conventional wisdom — which is seldom conventional — has it that Apple and Microsoft must tout loads of flashy new features to justify asking their customers to pay for their ongoing operating system upgrades. That may be true, all right, but it only presents part of the picture. Now as some of you recall, […]

On the heels of having to post a $250,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the person or persons responsible for the Conficker worm, it’s beginning to look as if there are more major threats to the dominance of Windows in the personal computer universe. Consider reports now that HP is seriously considering whether […]

This entire article may seem a tad premature, but I see the handwriting on the wall. You see, history is about to repeat itself. Back in the mid-1990s, Apple ditched the aging 68K chip in favor of the PowerPC. When native applications first arrived, they were offered in “Fat Binary” versions, which meant that code […]

Perhaps the most important statement in an otherwise unsurprising keynote was the admission by Steve Jobs that some of the features of Leopard were still “top secret.” Now there may be a psychological factor here, to deliver the news in bits and pieces over the next seven to ten months of development time. But there […]