The way Wall Street reacted to recent rumors about Steve Jobs and whether or not he’s seriously ill certainly mirrors the common perception that the company he co-founded can’t possibly succeed without him.
I can surely understand the reason for this common conception, since we all know how bad things were at Apple in the 1990s [...]

When I read a story the other day quoting someone from Microsoft almost begging people to give Vista a try, I had to come away with the feeling that they were struggling to right a sinking ship.
Of course, it’s also true that you can’t call Vista an abject failure. All right, people haven’t been lining [...]