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    Newsletter #479 Preview: Microsoft Has More to Fear Than Apple These Days

    February 1st, 2009

    You have to wonder just what Bill Gates is thinking, upon learning that the company he co-founded is laying off 5,000 workers. This is the very first time Microsoft has had to resort to this unfortunate practice in its 34 years, and the situation may actually get worse before it gets better. As you might […]


    Newsletter #426 Preview: Turning Good News Into Bad

    January 27th, 2008

    As I was listening to some talking heads debate Apple’s financial prospects on a 24-hour cable TV show this weekend, I had the vain hope that they would provide a needed dose of reality upon the bad tidings surrounding Apple Inc. these days. In the end, it was a mixed bag. One financial analyst said […]


    The Mac Night Owl’s Alternate Reality: Welcome to a DRM-Free World

    February 16th, 2007

    I can tell you that I have not really had any difficulty living in this world, where digital music players are incompatible, tethered to proprietary music download services. Apple’s FairPlay DRM is really not so odious as some might think. So long as you don’t feel that a Microsoft Zune must connect to iTunes, or […]


    Newsletter #354 Preview: The Mac is Not a Toaster Oven

    September 11th, 2006

    They sometimes say that the best salesperson believes their own pitch, so maybe it is true that when Steve Jobs first touted the Mac as a computing appliance, he believed it too. Alas, the first time a Mac crashed, the famed “reality distortion field” was breeched. Everything went downhill from there. For me, the most […]