Since I posted my observations about that boring vignette that passes for a Microsoft commercial, featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, some of you have responded with your own comments. Most, I think, agreed with me that it was a yawner that seriously failed to deliver on its promise, which was to get you to […]

A few days before Tiger was released, I got a call from a local physician asking if his early generation iMac could run 10.4. “Does it have built-in FireWire,” I asked, and he had to check. “No,” he said sadly, understanding the implications, that it was time to retire that faithful computer. Sure, that doctor […]