To many of you, the Mac programmers over at Microsoft are the company’s shining stars. Although they labor within the confines of a byzantine bureaucracy and strangely wrong-headed policies, they are not supposed to be drinking the company’s kool-aid. Rather, they’re supposed to be devoted Mac users who have carved out a solid niche where [...]

Do you remember the first great browser war era of the last decade? In this corner, there was Netscape, and in the far corner, coming up faster than anyone expected, was Microsoft. At the time, Microsoft actually did a smart thing. They built a better application, so it wasn’t just a matter of tying it [...]

Mac users have a right to feel a little deprived when it comes to getting the latest and greatest graphics hardware at affordable prices. In fact, I remember when you actually had to spend several thousand dollars for something that bore the name of “Thunder something-or-other” in the hope of blasting pixels on your screen [...]