Although I have played with Android powered gear from time to time, and endured those loud, irritating “Droid Does” TV spots for several years, I felt it was high time I spend extended face time with what has become the world’s most popular mobile OS. It stands to reason that it can’t be all bad; […]

One of the criticisms often made of Windows-based PCs is that they can be very complicated to set up, once you get past the basics. In contrast, people who prefer Windows will remark that OS X just doesn’t offer the granular level of settings to which they are accustomed. Now, depending on what you expect […]

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, […]