I’ve been extremely hard on Microsoft in recent years. First, I’ve criticized them for their bait and switch and other shady marketing schemes, and then I’ve even gone so far as to suggest they are doomed to fail big time in a few years. I don’t think many of you agree with me about Microsoft’s […]

Although this conversation probably never took place, I can well believe the scene is playing out as if it did. One day, Steve Jobs and Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who sits on Apple’s Board of Directors, were having lunch and talking shop. In one of those fated eureka moments, they both devised a strategy that […]

What can you say about a company that was, on a number of occasions, given up for dead or an eternal existence of irrelevance, but has come back big time? Well certainly, when it comes to Apple Inc., there’s always plenty of room for legitimate criticism. In fact, devoted Mac users are ready and willing […]

It’s been a while since I felt the need to explode with a short commentary about a pressing issue in the tech world. This week, you have to wonder about the possible impact of the planned near-departure of Bill Gates from Microsoft. The richest man in the world and perhaps the world’s most famous computer […]