Consider today’s conventional wisdom. Microsoft is the bad guy, a huge, lumbering beast that has trampled on lesser companies in order to attain and enforce its PC monopoly. More to the point, lots of people agree. They tolerate Microsoft and regard it as an 800-pound gorilla they must deal with whether they like it or […]

The other day, I downloaded a copy of Mozilla’s latest edition of Thunderbird, which is now at version 2.0RC1. Although not quite final, it’s pretty solid, with all the new features intact. But I have to wonder about the future of apps such as this, because you can get  all or most of their features […]

Can you imagine the world’s largest, mightiest software company being afraid? It doesn’t seem to make a whole lot of sense, and if you said it was utterly illogical, I’d understand. But when you’re number one in any industry, you can’t believe it’ll last forever, because it probably won’t. Think of the millionaire who believes […]

You can imagine the scene: Just as soon as a new product arrives from Apple, be it hardware or software, you can bet that a few complaints will appear on various and sundry support sites. It may be chronic system crashes, noisy audio ports, excessive fan noise, and, no, I didn’t invent any of these […]