When the news was first broadcast that Microsoft had acquired the rights to Connectix Virtual PC in February 2003, I had mixed feelings. You see, Microsoft was notorious for acquiring technologies from other companies, and then killing them. But this didn’t make much sense to me, because Virtual PC was a great addition to Microsoft’s […]

Think about it for a moment. Mac OS X Leopard is months away from release. The entire feature set hasn’t been announced, and we have only a glimmer of an idea of the extra goodies that developers are seeing on the preview DVDs they got this week from Apple at the WWDC. During the keynote […]

It appears to be business as usual for Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit, despite Apple’s solution to running Windows on an Intel-based Mac. A Microsoft spokesperson told The Mac Night Owl, shortly after yesterday’s Boot Camp release, that “The announcement from Apple this morning serves as continued evidence that some Mac users have a need to […]