A lot of people have complained that Apple’s go-it-alone stance is bad for online music sales. Of course, the stellar sales picture shows the reverse, that having a relatively simple, unified method to buy and store your tunes is actually a good idea. Of course, Microsoft thought otherwise, and for the longest time, as most […]

Microsoft has to be judged guilty of using some of the worst code names in the business. Windows Vista, for example, was originally known as Longhorn, as if some sort of Texas steer would convey images of a world-class personal computer operating system. So it was only natural that Microsoft’s latest effort — and I’ve […]