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Apple levitates: Financial quarter, by the numbers

January 26, 2010

Joe Wilcox goes through Apple’s numbers for the quarter thoroughly (and dispassionately – something that I appreciate when it comes to numbers). What sticks out for me is that Apple has managed a pretty astounding feat: preserving unit sales (or expanding them in many product lines) while pushing margins even higher, something that should barely [...]

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Dumb Windows users write dumb things about malware. News at 11.

November 4, 2009

Over at PC Pro, my old chum Chris Brennan is conducting a brave experiment. As an ardent Mac user, in the cause of science, he’s put aside his Mac and is living with Windows 7 for a while (catch up with his posts here.) After a couple of weeks, a story about some Windows 7 [...]

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Windows 2009 = Macintosh 2001 (well, nearly)

October 21, 2009

It took Microsoft six years, from the release of the first Mac in 1984 to the release of Windows 3.0 in 1990, to make something that matched Apple. It’s taken them eight years, from the release of Mac OS X 10.0 to the release of Windows 7, to get close again. Welcome,  Windows 7. Seriously.

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Chrome OS is not a threat to Windows « GartenBlog

July 8, 2009

“Launching a new PC OS is not easy even if your target is a cloud. Targeting netbooks in 2010 isn’t the answer either. As I’ve pointed out, netbook are laptops with a pivotal axis of price. We’re seeing netbooks with 12″ screens, full sized keyboards and 300gb of storage. Does anyone think that netbooks aren’t [...]

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Microsoft’s days numbered on netbooks? Not so fast

June 4, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Michael Hickens thinks that thinks that the emergence of Android as a viable operating system on netbooks means Microsoft is in trouble: “Microsoft got away with ignoring the Web as long as everything important was taking place on the desktop (most of which it owned), but the increasing ubiquity of cloud computing, [...]

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Windows 7, Mac OS X and Ubuntu: A Tale of Three Operating Systems

April 11, 2009

Joe Wilcox picks up on a comment that I made on his post about Windows 7 and its relationship to the Mac: “As you know, Joe, I’m a Mac to Linux switcher (with over 20 years Mac use under my belt). But I’m also a tinkerer who’s curious about OS’s, so I’ve been running Windows [...]

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A Windows 7 experiment

March 5, 2009

I’m taking a break from the world of Linux for a couple of weeks and giving Windows 7 a proper test drive. I installed it temporarily a couple of weeks ago, but didn’t play with it long enough to form a proper opinion. So far – and I’m literally just a couple of hours in [...]

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Why Microsoft lose and Apple wins, part two

May 30, 2008

There are some very interesting facts about the reaction of Microsoft to Spotlight after its first demo revealed in the comments to a post on Joe Wilcox’s AppleWatch blog. "MSFT has worked on WinFS for more than a decade without success in making it fast, reliable, and easy-to-use enough for release. The Longhorn "reset" in [...]

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