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    The Quiet Mac Revolution

    October 27th, 2011

    Just the other day, I heard an interview with former “PC” character John Hodgman, the actor/writer who played the fall guy in those now-discomtinued Mac Versus PC ads. Turns out that Hodgman is a Mac user in real life, and, I suppose, most people thought of him as the more sympathetic person on those ads, […]


    Newsletter Issue #579: Mac Virus Fear Mongers Are Up to Their Usual Tricks

    January 3rd, 2011

    In one of this cute and funny Mac versus PC ads, which are sadly no longer being produced, the Mac personification, as portrayed by actor Justin Long, reminded the PC (as portrayed by John Hodgman), that there are over 100,000 Windows viruses, but not on the Mac. Now this particular phrase became controversial, because you […]


    Microsoft Resorts to Desperate Measures to Boost Vista

    August 21st, 2008

    Imagine if you were the CEO of the world’s largest software company, and that some of your products had shares of upwards of 90% in certain market segments. You are sitting at the top of the mountain, reasonably secure in your knowledge that there were no credible competitors out there, and that your place in […]


    The Danger of Calling the Mac Virus-Free

    May 4th, 2006

    You can live in a vacuum and maintain that recent claims that the Mac is highly susceptible to malware are false. You could take a more cautious approach and buy the full package of protection software. Today that would include anti-virus, firewall and anti-spam capabilities and there’s even an anti-spyware application out there, although I’m […]