On Wednesday morning, I learned about a new release of the world-famous peer-to-peer telephony application, Skype, and promptly downloaded a copy. The key new feature was native support for Intel-based Macs. Without thinking about it, I launched the application, saw it bounce in the Dock a time or two and then it stopped dead. I [...]

I had a pleasant conversation Monday with Owen Linzmayer, best known as author of “Apple Confidential 2.0.” He’s also written a pair of articles for InformIT.com, in which he complains about Tiger features he doesn’t like. To be sure, not all of the responses he’s received have been very pleasant, and some readers have expressed [...]

The excuses really aren’t very important, but the end result is. Microsoft has admitted that its long-delayed operating system upgrade, Windows Vista, will miss another deadline, this time the crucial Christmas holiday season; that is, except for volume licensing customers who are far less likely to upgrade. No doubt, PC box makers will be disappointed, [...]