A recently disclosed Apple patent describes a number of devices using a two-sided touch panel and to no surprise, the speculation online begins. However, some of the imaginings sound like technology that Microsoft has shown before.
Based on recent comments by top Redmond strategists, it appears that Microsoft has no credible vision for the future of desktop computing. Apple appears to have skirted this strategic black hole and despite the distractions of its OS X-based mobile clients keeps delivering powerful desktop hardware, a robust OS and performance-hungry applications.
Ten years ago, give a week or so, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced QuickTime 3.0 to the National Association of Broadcasters' convention. Behind the scenes in the months before the introduction, Microsoft was playing hardball with hardware and software vendors over its new A/V APIs along with demands to kill the QuickTime competition.
Karelia Software releases its iMedia Browser, a small application that lets users browse and retrieve a variety of rich content on their Macs. Even better, it's free.
There's good news from the Microsoft's Mac Business Unit about features in the forthcoming in Office for Mac 2008. So why is my blood boiling?
Microsoft's Mac Business Unit on Tuesday pointed customers to a "sneak peek" at a number of new features slated for Office 2008 for Mac. The site offers animated screen grabs of the new UI and significant changes to the suite and to most of the applications.
Ten years ago, Apple called a truce in its market share war with Microsoft. But Apple's new Numbers spreadsheet and the support for Tracking Changes in the updated Pages are huge for those who want to do without MS Office.
Should Microsoft toss out the millions of lines of code in Windows and start over from scratch? Most readers say: No way! Even those who think Windows needs improvement agree this is not the way to go.
There were surely losers along with the winners at last week's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, but for the moment, I just can't seem to latch onto the negativity required to spot them.The positive side of my brain is ascendant; I'm still filled with the good cheer I felt after walking the expo floor.
According to Microsoft, the Zune platform isn't dead; instead, it's just finding a new hardware home inside a phone. Meanwhile, everyone outside of Redmond and the pathetic few Zune fanboys, know that Zune is dead. Who did this? Apple, perhaps Windows' biggest and most popular independent software developer.
