Friday, May 9th, 2008
Microsoft has always treated the Mac as a second class citizen and the bugs in Office 2008 are just added icing on the cake.
Back when I started using the Mac, there was Word. It wasn't known as Microsoft Word to me, it was just Word, it was the word processor ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Beleaguered software vendor Microsoft is adding a couple of years to their spurned child, Windows XP::'Michael Dix, head of Windows client product management, tells the story, "One thing we've heard loud and clear, from both our customers and our partners, is the desire for Windows on this new class of ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
The recent news that Adobe Creative Suite 4 will not be 64-bit for the Mac is taken as a blow to the Mac. It will be 64-bit for Windows on 64-bit machines running a 64-bit Windows OS (which is a surprisingly small number of people).
64-bit Windows XP runs slower than ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Alistair Croll writes about Microsoft for GigaOM.
Microsoft is fighting a war — one in which it’s being attacked on three sides. ... what emerges is the Redmond giant’s three-pronged defense strategy: consumer, enterprise and developer.
What emerges is that consumers who have previously been buying nothing but Windows don't care ...
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