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    The Beleaguered Microsoft: The Evidence Mounts

    July 14th, 2009

    Although I remain skeptical how it’ll all turn out, the top executives at Microsoft must be freaking upon learning that Google plans to build the Chrome operating system. Worse, that it’ll be deployed first for netbooks and eventually to regular note-books and desktop computers as well. Most of the online chatter doesn’t really mention Apple […]


    The Ongoing Efforts to Kill the iPhone

    July 9th, 2009

    They never learn. Media pundits have this “bigger they are, harder they fall” philosophy when it comes to one of Apple’s hot-selling gadgets. So in the days when the iPhone was growing tremendously every single year, almost every pretender to the throne was touted as the one and only inevitable iPod killer. This was particularly true […]


    Memo to Google: It’s About the Applications, Stupid!

    July 8th, 2009

    The press is going ga-ga about Google’s latest product announcement, something known as the Chrome operating system, which they consider a potential threat to Microsoft’s dominance in the PC space. The new operating system is evidently an outgrowth to Android, their Linux-based open source OS for mobile devices and, evidently, netbooks. But the Chrome OS […]


    Newsletter #501 Preview: Microsoft’s Philosophy:
    Keep the Lies Coming and People Will Believe Them

    July 5th, 2009

    Hardly a week passes where I don’t have reason to deal with Microsoft’s disreputable behavior. Just the other day, one of the conservative TV pundits was ranting about a stimulus package provision that allows the folks in the state of Washington to build a bridge that connects two campuses at Microsoft’s main headquarters. You’d think […]