Sometimes I wonder if a few tech commentators just want to make waves, rather than say anything useful, let alone factual. Consider the case of USA Today’s Andrew Kantor, who recently came out with the outlandish suggestion that people, once properly exposed to Windows XP courtesy of Apple’s Boot Camp, would ditch the Mac OS […]

The practice of surveying people about everything imaginable has become an epidemic, and most of it means absolutely nothing. Even those carefully calculated polls by the likes of Gallup and other companies have “margins of error,” which means mistakes are possible. That explains why, when it comes to a very close election, the wrong candidate […]

It makes a lot of sense. You may have Tiger in your sights, but you held off upgrading because of the infamous point-zero curse. Curse? Yes, it’s an axiom that the initial release of any software, especially something as complicated and potentially temperamental as an operating system, is going to be so ridden with bugs […]

There’s a myth about every Mac OS installation, and that’s the easy upgrade. In theory, you should be able to jump from one major Mac OS X release to another simply by restarting with the installer CD and clicking a few buttons. The installer should take care of itself, so you ought to be able […]