Whenever I write a column of this sort, I wonder if some of those spammers might just want to make a concerted effort to go after me, just to show “that old so and so” how powerful they really are. But it’s a casual thought, and not an active part of any paranoiac instincts. At [...]

When you look at it, Microsoft probably had no choice. As you know, in the past the company has tried to undercut its competition by bringing out free products that other companies asked Windows users to pay for. Certainly it worked with Internet Explorer, although the truth is that it was, in those days at [...]