Just this week, as Microsoft was completing its latest round of corporate musical chairs, Steve Ballmer said they were going to try, once again, to create user interfaces that were easier to use, in the same fashion as Apple. That, of course, was just their latest attempt to graft the Mac look and feel onto [...]

The beginning of what may be a long skirmish between Microsoft and Yahoo is now underway. So far, Yahoo has given a big fat negative to the offer of nearly 45 billion dollars to merge the two companies. This didn’t come as much of a surprise, as there were clear indications in recent days that [...]

You know it makes an awful lot of sense. When you are price shopping for a new car, you’ll check off the options list and see that both have similarly powerful six-cylinder engines, air conditioning, perhaps a navigation system, satellite radio and so on and so forth.
At the end of the process, you tally up [...]