All right, the good news is that the Mac’s percentage of PC sales in the U.S. is up, holding 13.6% of the U.S. market for the September quarter, putting it third behind HP and Dell. The survey was published by Gartner, but it also revealed declining sales, coming in at 2,078,000, compared to 2,213,826 for […]

People like me who post on sites of this sort are really living in a bubble. The conversation is filled with Mac versus Windows, iOS versus Android, and so on and so forth. These subjects seem to become the most compelling issues of the day, and new products, or the potential for new products, fuel […]

Microsoft will never admit fault. Just when you believe they have to hunker down and address serious problems with the company’s future direction, they will confirm yet again that they are clueless. You can see that in the way the Surface tablet — described by CEO Steve Ballmer as nothing more than a “design point” […]

It has been a long time since you could take Microsoft’s promises — or threats — seriously. After they conquered the PC world early on, almost every pronouncement from them was accepted as gospel by the media. Whenever they announced a product or service, they were believed. When those products or services failed to appear […]