Category: Windows
March 16, 2010
Let the haters rail! Of the guys with their feet in the enterprise mud, a large a majority of those with dual platform experience are saying the support cost leader is the Mac with users of the fairer platform using 20 percent fewer resources.
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Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, Security, Windows, news, opinion | 1 Comment » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
March 12, 2010
Fire up Software Update because Apple’s got an important download for you. This maintenance release of the company’s popular WebKit-based browser offers important feature tweaks and fixes, including improved third-party plug-in stability (i.e. Flash) improvements.
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Posted in Adobe, Apple, Free Software, Leopard, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, Updates, Windows, news, snow leopard | 1 Comment » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
March 2, 2010
Do you want to keep your Mac secure? The best advice one of the world’s most famous hackers “security researchers” has to offer is that you shouldn’t use Adobe’s crash prone, resource gobbling multimedia plugin — it’s just that simple.
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Posted in Adobe, Apple, Free Software, Mac, Mac software, Macbook Air, Macintosh, Security, Windows, iPhone, news, snow leopard | 1 Comment » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
February 27, 2010
In the eyes of a fanboy, every advertisement begs not so much to be remade but to be made right. Here’s a fine example that starts with Google’s popular Super Bowl XLIV spot and veers straight into a celebration of Mac users’ favorite truisms about Windows and how it must feel to be Windows user.
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Posted in Amusing, Apple, Mac, Macintosh, Windows | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
February 11, 2010
Redmond’s former Chief Executive Officer, who now spends most his time and money trying to solve Third World folks’ problems, has commented on Apple “latest creation,” the iPad. Unfortunately, rather than seeing a product that’s wholly different, Gates seems locked in a Windows everywhere mindset.
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Posted in Apple, Bill Gates, Mac, Macintosh, Microsoft, Windows, iPad, iPhone | 4 Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
January 20, 2010
Better late than never and two weeks after their original stated deadline isn’t that bad. The mothership’s posted a trio of patches covering Windows 7 compatibility, as well as 32 and 64 bit operation on your Intel Mac.
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Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, OS X, Windows, iPhone, snow leopard | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
January 15, 2010
The latest PC sales reports from Gartner Group and IDC find that the recent spate of very cheap Windows personal computers may have slowed sales of the Apple line of computers during the last quarter of 2009.
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Posted in Apple, Mac, Vista, Windows, news | 2 Comments » Posted by: Michael W. Jones
January 2, 2010
The mothership is generally pretty good about keeping the promises it makes, but here’s one they’ve missed. Back in October, the Cupertino, California-based Mac, iPod and iPhone said we could expect the required Bootcamp update by year’s end — that date’s obviously come and gone.
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Posted in Apple, Free Software, Mac, Mac software, Macintosh, OS X, Windows, news, snow leopard | 10 Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson
December 18, 2009
Now that Google’s Chrome browser is ready for the Mac, as well as for Windows and Linux, the company is making a concerted effort to get the users to switch to their new browser.
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Posted in Apple, Free Software, Windows | No Comments » Posted by: Michael W. Jones
November 30, 2009
Retailers around the nation have reported brisk Thanksgiving Weekend sales largely on the back steep discounts and heavy promotion. However, our favorite countercyclical fruit company apparently has done very well indeed without heavy advertising or deep price cutting.
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Posted in Apple, Mac, Macintosh, Rumors, Vista, Windows, iPhone, iPod, news, opinion | No Comments » Posted by: Ronald O Carlson