From reading much of the press chatter about Microsoft’s quarterly financials last week, you almost had the impression that the Surface tablet had been a huge seller. Almost. Although revenue, at $893 million, doubled from the previous quarter, Microsoft is still selling a paltry amount compared to the iPad. Let’s assume, for the sake of […]

The news has come down that Windows 8.1 may be getting somewhat more popular. Well at least it’s on more computers than OS X Mavericks, based on a survey from Net Applications, which records Web traffic. While this may be considered significant to some, it’s really not so significant, particularly when you compare Microsoft’s latest […]

This week there’s a report about a new ad campaign from Nokia, comparing their new Lumia 2520 tablet against the iPad. So what did they complain about? Well, it seems that the Lumia has an attachable physical keyboard, but the iPad doesn’t. I’m serious. Now this approach is nothing new. It’s reminiscent of Microsoft’s ads […]

Not long ago, Eric Schmidt, late of Apple’s board of directors and the present executive chairman at Google, made the silly claim, at a public event no less, than Android was more secure than iOS. Well, perhaps that was his profound belief, though it bought nothing but laughter from the audience. You could almost feel […]