You just know that some members of the media are waiting for Apple to fail big time. Just the other day, I read a piece suggesting that the iPad had begun to cannibalize sales of new Macs. How did they know? Well, the sales growth rate wasn’t quite as high as they might have expected. […]

On last week’s episode of The Tech Night Owl LIVE, I did a segment with Amanda Lefebvre, one of the product people at Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit, to discuss some of the most compelling features of the forthcoming Office 2011 for the Mac. Due out in October, there are two key improvements of note, one […]

Once upon a time, there was a battle to the death between Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. Microsoft made their product leaner and meaner, forced it onto PC desktops, and, in the end, defeated an increasingly bloated rival. On the Mac platform, Microsoft convinced (some say coerced) Apple to make Internet Explorer the default […]

It seems scarcely an issue of Consumer Reports appears that doesn’t cover personal computers and other electronics gear these days. In the wake of their strangely-concocted criticism of the iPhone 4’s antenna design, CR has gotten loads of favorable public attention — often not deserved. It’s unfortunate that virtually nobody in the mainstream media ever […]