Although the sales figures aren’t quite in yet, there’s a general feeling that Windows Vista isn’t really doing quite as well as Microsoft hoped, at least as far as early adopters are concerned. Unlike the arrival of Windows 95 to the chords of “Start Me Up” from The Rolling Stones, you didn’t have all that […]

I don’t know how often I’ve wondered why Apple isn’t pushing Macs these days, but now it seems those ads are all over the place. Apple has made some heavy-duty media buys, and you see the “Get a Mac” commercials on many of your favorite shows. That is, if you haven’t sped past them on […]

For years, I have been complaining that Apple shortchanges Mac users on RAM. Starting with System 7.0 in the early 1990s, I regularly attacked Apple for selling computers memory starved computers. Now it seems I may have to backtrack on some of those statements. But don’t get me wrong: I would like to see all […]