When Bill Gates appeared to a round of boos and catcalls on a satellite feed during a Macworld Expo keynote some years ago, you wondered why Steve Jobs was so readily conceding the operating system wars. Jobs went on to state that, for Apple to succeed, Microsoft didn’t have to lose. You’d think he was […]

A few weeks back, when I was busy rescuing a client’s Windows box from malware invasions and other ills, I asked him to watch over me as I worked. He had used a Mac for years, but inherited an entry-level Gateway from a relative, and wanted to somehow get it running. It was important that […]