I realize some of you readers might consider myself an expert of one sort or another — and some of you even believe I present myself in that fashion. But I don’t really consider myself an expert in anything. Instead, I try to distill, evaluate and present information in a way that most people will […]

Look at the situation right now. Microsoft has thrown wasted some $8 to $9 billion struggling to get Windows Vista and office 2007 out at some amorphous time next year. Yes, I know Bill Gates says there’s an 80% certainty that Vista will be available to consumers in January, but I take that with a […]

When Apple introduced iWork as the intended successor to AppleWorks last year, it didn’t seem to set the world on fire. Sure Pages was a neat concept: A simple page design program with adequate word processing capabilities. Keynote gives presentations the flair they lack with the ever-present Microsoft PowerPoint. So it seemed to have potential, […]

Over 21 years ago, the first Mac appeared with the promise of become the first real computing appliance. Except for the keyboard and the mouse, it was self-contained and offered no expansion capability. Imagine a toaster oven that computes. In any case, it’s taken years for Apple to return to its original concept, and some […]