2012-05-16 For Microsoft, being underdog is the perfect antitrust defense
Mozilla and Google have complained that Microsoft is competing unfairly with its decision to block their desktop browsers in Windows RT.
2012-05-15 Paving the cowpaths to the denial cloud
Enterprises are being sold over-specified, inefficient private cloud infrastructure that will end up as shelfware, a conference heard last week.
2012-05-14 The indispensable smartphone
Once we adopted the smartphone its many uses helped worm its way into the very fabric of our lives.
2012-05-10 Mozilla and Google accuse Microsoft of unfair browser competition
Microsoft will restrict third-party browsers like Firefox and Chrome to the Metro sandbox in Windows 8 for ARM devices, while treating Internet Explorer 10 as an “intrinsic feature” of Windows.
2012-05-09 Appreciate helps you discover apps in the Google Play Store
With nearly half a million apps in the Google Play Store, finding new apps to install can be a daunting task.
2012-05-08 What Microsoft can teach Apple about security response
Security vulnerabilities are a fact of life. Even the best-managed development processes will miss some attack vectors, leaving the software makers responsible for fixing the underlying vulnerabilities.
2012-05-07 Ubuntu 12.04 vs. Windows 8: Five points of comparison
2012 has already seen a major update of what’s arguably the most important Linux desktop: Ubuntu 12.04 and we’re also seeing the most radical update of Windows with Windows 8 Metro coming since Windows 95 replaced Windows 3.1.
2012-05-04 Will Windows 8 PCs cost too much at launch?
Laptop makers are reportedly concerned about the higher costs of supporting Windows 8’s touch-screen capabilities.
2012-05-03 Yahoo warns Facebook may infringe 16 patents with open source
Yahoo has warned Facebook that the social networking giant allegedly infringes on 16 more patents.
2012-04-30 Flashback malware exposes big gaps in Apple security response
A pair of high-profile malware attacks have given Apple a crash course in security response.
2012-04-27 Five not-so-obvious reasons why Apple won't be Sony redux
Forrester CEO George Colony argued that Apple is going to turn out a lot like Sony—a consumer electronics juggernaut that lost its way and turned out to be a complete mess.
2012-04-26 8 things Microsoft needs to do to save Windows 8
Our home media PC is getting a little long in the tooth.
2012-04-25 Free storage for you: Google Drive to arrive today
Google’s new cloud-storage service is here. The Google Drive comes with 5GBs of free storage and up to 16 Terabytes of storage for paying customers.
2012-04-24 Microsoft updates the public Windows 8 countdown calendar
Microsoft will release the Windows 8 Release Preview — the last of the public test builds of the operating system before it is released to manufacturing — the first week of June.
2012-04-23 Office for Mac 2011 SP2 update creating database issues for some Outlook users
Microsoft introduced Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 2 about a week ago, and according to the company, the “majority of our customers have been delighted with the improvements.”
