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    The Snow Leopard Versus Windows 7 Report: Marketing

    August 26th, 2009

    Depending on whom you believe, Apple’s early release of Snow Leopard is either a brilliant marketing stroke or won’t make one bit of difference in the end. What some people forget is that maybe, just maybe, Apple is shipping 10.6 this week because it could. The work was wrapped up, the DVD pressing plants had […]


    Newsletter #507 Preview: Microsoft Continues to
    Believe Changing Names Means Something

    August 16th, 2009

    Now consider that the email component of Office for the Mac, Entourage, is a direct descendant of the free version, Outlook Express. Without considering the source code itself, I expect that the changes were evolutionary until Microsoft changed their app to Universal to run naive on Intel-based Macs. Now on the surface, Entourage seemed largely […]


    Mac OS 10.5.7, Dumb Journalist Comments and Other Juicy Stuff

    May 13th, 2009

    The last Leopard update arrived in December, 10.5.6, and after lots of forewarning from the Mac rumor sites, 10.5.7 appeared Tuesday afternoon. Claims by Mac|Life magazine that it would definitely arrive last Friday, with no evidence to support that assertion, thus enter the growing realm of abject tech media failures. Although 10.5.7 only appears to […]


    21st Century Email Remains a Mess

    May 7th, 2009

    One of the earliest features folks embraced when they discovered the Internet was obviously email. As with the rest of the online world, it wasn’t originally designed to accommodate the needs of hundreds of millions of users, and so there were problems. Number one with a bullet is spam, and I won’t even attempt to deal […]