I suspect some of you don’t always get Apple’s method of innovation. It doesn’t necessarily mean they were first with everything they’ve done. I am sure, for example, that you will locate prior attempts at graphical user interfaces before the Lisa and later the Mac arrived. Only Apple (and Microsoft) managed to survive, while many […]

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, […]

As some of you may have heard, Microsoft has been making an effort to be a trifle innovative in the user interface of Internet Explorer 7 and the forthcoming Office 2007 for Windows. The default look, for example, ditches the traditional menu bar, which means you no longer see such familiar labels as File, Edit, […]