It’s a well known fact that Microsoft user focus groups with which to test product features. Apple? Well, they aren’t saying, although the general perception has it that Steve Jobs is the focus group of one who makes all the decisions, even the minutiae that some might not consider terribly important. Sure, Apple makes mistakes. […]

I don’t know what there is about Apple Inc. that makes people wish them dead. But that’s apparently something that a few tech writers — and certainly some Windows diehards — fervently wish will happen sooner rather than later. It seems almost from the very first, Apple was belittled, marginalized. When the Mac first appeared, […]

I realize some of you readers might consider myself an expert of one sort or another — and some of you even believe I present myself in that fashion. But I don’t really consider myself an expert in anything. Instead, I try to distill, evaluate and present information in a way that most people will […]

The very idea of this article may seem improbably, and it’s fair to say that the 90s signaled the ascendancy of Microsoft as the dominant player in the operating system arena and nearly did Apple in. In those days, Microsoft, feared and admired with equal fervor, could do no wrong. Every product they announced — […]