When Windows 8 ships this fall, you can bet that Microsoft will tout the interface formerly known as Metro to the skies. Look at the wonderful, colorful tiles. See how they run across the screen, endlessly. Forget about pointing and clicking; just tap here and there and everywhere and you’ll experience the joys of Windows […]

If you want to get the early buzz about a new movie from both audiences and critics, you might pay a visit to Rotten Tomatoes. The site’s name is based on the old practice of people throwing rotten tomatoes or vegetables at the stage during a bad performance, and earning a green or rotten tomato […]

Microsoft will never admit fault. Just when you believe they have to hunker down and address serious problems with the company’s future direction, they will confirm yet again that they are clueless. You can see that in the way the Surface tablet — described by CEO Steve Ballmer as nothing more than a “design point” […]

You can almost always depend on loads of Microsoft sycophants extolling the virtues of a new Microsoft product. Sometimes you even get a press release offering some sort of “independent blogger” for an interview. Just recently, for example, a PR agency sent along the name of someone who could tell us all about the then-new […]