To many of you, the Mac programmers over at Microsoft are the company’s shining stars. Although they labor within the confines of a byzantine bureaucracy and strangely wrong-headed policies, they are not supposed to be drinking the company’s kool-aid. Rather, they’re supposed to be devoted Mac users who have carved out a solid niche where […]

These days, Apple appears to have discovered the magic formula of exceeding expectations. This was particularly true as Wall Street analysts began predicting just how much money it made in the last quarter. I doubt even the company’s own money people could have come up with the end result, since it exceeded their guidance as […]