If you can believe Microsoft, over 100 million Windows 8 licenses have been sold so far. This number is consistent with the initial uptake of Windows 7, so you have to wonder how these figures are being collected, since PC sales continue to decline. Is it possible Microsoft is just lying? Well, probably not. But […]

If you can give the CEO of BlackBerry any credibility — and that might indeed be a huge stretch — then do not expect that tablets will be significant factors in the mobile computing world in five years. That comment comes from Thorsten Heins, who is struggling to keep the company viable in the face […]

There’s someone over at TheStreet, an online finance publication, who is obsessed with asserting that it’s time for Tim Cook to leave Apple. In his latest rant, he equates the performance of Tim Cook to Ron Johnson, the recently ousted CEO of J.C. Penney, who was the first head of Apple’s retail division. His theory […]

Microsoft reportedly relies heavily on focus group testing, though you have to wonder what sort of group they used in light of the Windows 8 debacle. Sure, there is a commentary from one blogger, known to me, who claims that Windows 8 is the next XP, and that it is destined to become the PC […]