The Microsoft of today is the Apple of yesteryear; directionless, adrift, unpopular, deserted by the technical elite, and home to mostly shitty software. Microsoft produces a thousand different products with no unified vision or purpose, and most of them bleed money. Like the Apple of the 1990s, research labs belch forth an unending stream of [...]
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve been asked (in the role of Windows IT guy) to fix printing problems, install various basic PDF utilities and disinfect malware-infested computers, I’d have enough money to buy all the Macs needed to banish these routine issues for good. Seriously! It’s 2008 and Windows still doesn’t [...]
It struck me today that the problem of software, music, and movie piracy is a fairly similar one to gun regulation. In New York, there exists a law stating that one cannot own two or more handgun permits. Seems harmless enough, until you discover that New York City requires its own permit and does not [...]
So a particularly embarrassing email written by Bill Gates and made public during the company’s antitrust investigations was just put all over the internet, and boy is it a doozy! Here goes: From: Bill Gates Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AM To: Jim Allchin Cc: Chris Jones (WINDOWS); Bharat Shah (NT); Joe Peterson; Will [...]
3G iPhone blah blah blah, GPS yadda yadda yadda, app store neener neener neener. If you’re here I’ll just assume you know about all those things are already desperately holding back the pulsating waves of techno-lust from consuming your body from some sort of all-encompassing orgasmic tinglefest. I’ve been told Apple products do that to [...]
“There’s no software for Macs!” is a common refrain in the Windows world as a reason to shun Macs. Along with “They’re more expensive!” and “They’re only good for artists and video editors and stuff!”, lack of software is part of a trifecta of shame routinely leveled at Apple by Microsoft-centric tech pundits. The problem [...]