During the most recent financial quarter, Microsoft spent huge amounts of money to entice you to buy a Surface RT tablet. The ads were loud, frantic, and were models of misdirection in the sense that you learned nothing more about the tablet other than it was a device that made lots of clicks and resembled […]

Supposedly Microsoft is in favor of focus group testing, the better to evaluate new products and get public reaction. Yet you have to wonder how they continue to come up with curious, ill-thought solutions that seemingly defy logic. Take the ribbon toolbar. Microsoft wanted you to believe that toolbars containing icons that were context sensitive […]

Over the past couple of weeks, some Web logging sources have detected what may be the first indications of the existence of an OS 10.9 testing program within Apple. This shouldn’t be surprising. If Apple stays on the path to annual OS X upgrades, it makes perfect sense that very preliminary versions of the next […]

So there have been occasional published reports that Microsoft is working on an iOS version of Office. According to the original rumors, it would have arrived by now. There’s yet another claim that Office will arrive for iOS and Android in the near future. The latest claim came from a Microsoft product manager working in […]