During the most recent financial quarter, Microsoft spent huge amounts of money to entice you to buy a Surface RT tablet. The ads were loud, frantic, and were models of misdirection in the sense that you learned nothing more about the tablet other than it was a device that made lots of clicks and resembled […]

Amid reports that the iPhone garnered some 51.2% of smartphone sales in the U.S. during the last quarter, at least according to one survey, you wonder how Microsoft’s costly Windows Phone initiative is going. The answer, it seems, is not very far. The survey, from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech USA’s consumer panel, is based on 250,000 interviews, […]

In yesterday’s column, I discussed the need for a more powerful multitasking solution for iOS, with the option to be able to have multiple documents and apps available for instant tapping from one to the other and back. It was all about having a feature that would be closer in concept to the one in […]

You’d think that, with the release of Windows 8 on October 26, there would have been a whole new generation of innovative ideas from PC makers to exploit the features of the new OS. The Microsoft Surface RT was meant as the “design point,” according to Steve Ballmer, supposedly meaning that it would inspire other […]