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    Microsoft’s Problems Mount

    July 19th, 2007

    On the surface, if you’re a Microsoft stockholder, you’ll probably be reasonably pleased with their latest quarterly results, where higher revenue and profits were reported. All this despite the fact that they’re taking a $1 billion charge to cover the costs of fixing defective Xbox 360 consoles. But it’s clear to me that the Redmond […]


    The Return of Netscape Navigator: Does the World Need Another Browser?

    June 5th, 2007

    Holy nostalgia! Isn’t it strange how things sometimes go full circle? Take Netscape Navigator, the browser that I adopted and used on my Mac until Microsoft’s Internet Explorer came along and blew it away. That’s the price the erstwhile Netscape company paid for developing fat and buggy software and allowing a competitor to pull the […]


    Realtor Services Give Microsoft Internet Explorer the Heave-Ho

    February 19th, 2007

    Last spring, one of my clients, whose wife is a real estate agent, had to buy Windows XP to install on his new MacBook Pro. Now he didn’t want to use Windows, but the multiple listing service his spouse’s employer signed up with had a Web-based service that required Internet Explorer for Windows. That was […]


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    The Leopard Report: Should Apple Tinker with the Interface?

    November 6th, 2006

    As some of you may have heard, Microsoft has been making an effort to be a trifle innovative in the user interface of Internet Explorer 7 and the forthcoming Office 2007 for Windows. The default look, for example, ditches the traditional menu bar, which means you no longer see such familiar labels as File, Edit, […]