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    Critical Skepticism of Windows 8 Grows

    June 19th, 2012

    You can almost always depend on loads of Microsoft sycophants extolling the virtues of a new Microsoft product. Sometimes you even get a press release offering some sort of “independent blogger” for an interview. Just recently, for example, a PR agency sent along the name of someone who could tell us all about the then-new […]


    Outlook for Mac 2011 — Still Not Ready for Prime Time

    February 11th, 2011

    So Microsoft has released some maintenance updates to the Office 2011 for Mac suite over the past few months. They were largely designed to patch security holes, or fix some bugs. For the most part, I’ve seen no change in Word or Outlook, and the latter remains a tough sell, in severe need of real […]


    Does the World Need Another Mac Email App?

    August 17th, 2010

    On last week’s episode of The Tech Night Owl LIVE, I did a segment with Amanda Lefebvre, one of the product people at Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit, to discuss some of the most compelling features of the forthcoming Office 2011 for the Mac. Due out in October, there are two key improvements of note, one […]


    Do the Browser Wars Still Matter?

    August 13th, 2010

    Once upon a time, there was a battle to the death between Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. Microsoft made their product leaner and meaner, forced it onto PC desktops, and, in the end, defeated an increasingly bloated rival. On the Mac platform, Microsoft convinced (some say coerced) Apple to make Internet Explorer the default […]