Microsoft Corp. has sold twice as many copies of Windows 7 in its first few weeks than any previous version of the operating system, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said.
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People naturally group information by topic and remember relationships between important things, like a person and the company where she works. But enabling computers to grasp these same concepts has been the subject of long-standing research. Recently, this has focused on the [...]

Well, I detoured away from Apple for a few months when financial circumstances necessitated going to a less expensive computer. Now, I am back to the Mac. I really think Windows Vista is getting a little bit of a bad rap these days. When introduced, there were simply too many problems. Peripherals often wouldn’t work [...]

Forget Windows and especially forget Vista and all of its problems. Apple keeps getting better and better with its Macintosh computer line-up. Actually a pioneer in the computer industry, Mac computers are fluid, intuitive, secure and actually enjoyable to use. You spend less time worrying about configuration and security issues, and more time enjoying your [...]

Switchers keep gaining in importance to Apple and that’s easy to see in the company’s advertising campaign during this holiday season. Almost all the stories are aimed at switchers and Windows users: one compares the many Vista SKUs with the single Mac Leopard SKU; another tells Windows users not to give up on Vista; and [...]

The New York Times is taking a look at the state of Linux.
Linux has always had a reputation of being difficult to install and daunting to use. Most of the popular Windows and Macintosh programs cannot be used on it, and hand-holding, not that you get that much of it with Windows, is rare. But [...]

Tens of thousands of people are expected to line up this Friday for the most hyped gadget of the decade - the iPhone.
Don’t be one of them.
Oh, it’s a technological marvel. But Apple’s all-in-one handheld isn’t the best cellphone - or even the best iPhone - that will be sold in the next year.
The iPhone [...]

Apple reported fiscal second quarter earnings of $770 million, or 87 cents a share, on revenue of $5.26 billion. Wall Street was expecting earnings of 64 cents a share on sales of $5.17 billion, according to Thomson Financial.
In the same period a year ago, Apple reported earnings of 47 cents a share on revenue of [...]

A frequent commenter made a decidedly pointed observation in my blog recently, responding to a post about a powerful new desktop PC from Apple.
In his typically understated way, O.C. Jones said: “Seems as if you’ve turned into a regular Dr. Mac.”
Of course, Jones was referring to Bob LeVitus, who writes the column about Apple and [...]

Switching to a Mac infrastructure may sound like an expensive proposition for a small-business owner. However, some businesses who have made the change say they made the right choice. The cost savings on security and ease-of-use quickly paid off incurred expenses, they said. Relearning some tasks that operate differently on a Mac may be a [...]