The beginning of what may be a long skirmish between Microsoft and Yahoo is now underway. So far, Yahoo has given a big fat negative to the offer of nearly 45 billion dollars to merge the two companies. This didn’t come as much of a surprise, as there were clear indications in recent days that […]

Over the years, Microsoft has without doubt used every sales trick in the book with which to hawk its products. Back in the 1990s, for example, facing threats from advanced operating systems from NeXT and other companies, Bill Gates touted a formidable new technology called Cairo that would virtually destroy the competition. Over the years, […]

You know, there is hardly a day passes where I don’t see a story about the iPhone. One day there’s a reminder of the intense anticipation for the product, the next what “secret” features might be included, and, of course, a tech writer can always ring up Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer for some negative spin. If […]

In recent weeks, with my various “Fear-Factor” commentaries, I’ve given Microsoft some well-deserved lumps, and you readers have joined in the fun in our Comments section. Surprisingly, no Microsoft supporters have chimed in to disagree, and I know for certain that you readers are not strictly Mac users. So I figured it was time to […]