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• How We Really Designed the Look and Feel of Windows 7

  While the Mac community has been chortling over a supposed Microsoft admission that Windows 7 copies the Mac OS X look and feel, the company decided to set the record straight , or at least provide a more official comment about this claim: An inaccurate... Posted Nov 12 2009, 12:04 PM by pthurrott with | with 85 comment(s) Filed under: Mac, Windows 7, Alt. Windows, Commentary

• Microsoft Opens Up the PST Format

  From Microsoft: As more and more information is stored and shared in digital formats, the ability for people to reuse their data across various applications and platforms has become increasing important. As part of an ongoing effort to enable this kind... Posted Oct 26 2009, 01:14 PM by pthurrott with | with 71 comment(s) Filed under: Microsoft Office, Alt. Windows, Email

• Apple Delivers New Macs, Multi-Touch Mouse

  Apple today unleashed a number of consumer computing products, all of which look quite interesting. The refreshed products include: iMac. Now available with 21.5- and 27-inch (!!!) 16:9 widescreen displays, the new iMacs look impressive. Apple today unveiled... Posted Oct 20 2009, 02:05 PM by pthurrott with | with 122 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Mac, Alt. Windows

• Google to Reveal More Chrome OS Details Thursday Night

  Stung by a recent leak, Google will now host a special event tomorrow (Thursday) night at which they will reveal more details about their mysterious Chrome OS: Join us for an evening at Google featuring presentations by Paul Rademacher on Google Maps... Posted Oct 14 2009, 09:27 PM by pthurrott with | with 45 comment(s) Filed under: Google, Alt. Windows, Cloud computing

• Google Sync: Now with push Gmail support

  This is big stuff, and if there's anyone actually paying for MobileMe a year from now, well, you already looked like a fool, so what's the difference? The Google Mobile Blog reports today that Google has added push email support to Google Sync... Posted Sep 22 2009, 01:57 PM by pthurrott with | with 69 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Internet, Google, Alt. Windows, Smartphone, Mobile, Cloud computing

• AppleInsider jumps the shark, declares Zune HD 'failed'

  While I wait for what I just know will be hugely positive reviews of the Zune HD from Walter Mossberg and David Pogue (after all, these guys treat Apple product launches like just-discovered new books of the Bible), I can at least point to some of the... Posted Sep 16 2009, 03:45 PM by pthurrott with | with 118 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Zune, iTunes, iPod, Alt. Windows, Commentary

• Apple offers up evolutionary iPod updates, Jobs at music event

  Today’s 9/9/9 Apple event was surprisingly light on surprises. Steve Jobs returned to the stage after almost a year’s absence and got a nice standing ovation. But Apple’s announcements were mostly lukewarm, and had been telegraphed weeks in advance. Among... Posted Sep 09 2009, 04:36 PM by pthurrott with | with 114 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iTunes, iPod, Alt. Windows, Digital media

• iPod touch 3G and iPod nano 5G revealed

  It’s been a tough couple of weeks for Apple. First the Snow Leopard debacle, and now the 9/9/9 event has been ruined: An iPod case maker has inadvertently revealed two of the devices Apple will debut today, the iPod touch 3G and the iPod nano 5G. (According... Posted Sep 09 2009, 09:46 AM by pthurrott with | with 91 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, iPod, Alt. Windows

• The 'blame anyone but Apple cadre,' Part 217: AT&T

  So AT&T is finally adding MMS support to the iPhone 3G/3GS on September 25, about two months after Apple first announced the feature and other international wireless carriers provided it. Yep, AT&T sucks. And I should know, I've been using... Posted Sep 04 2009, 03:55 PM by pthurrott with | with 99 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, Alt. Windows, Smartphone, Mobile, Commentary

• Snow Leopard: Great news for Windows 7, too

  I'm going to be writing about the Windows 7/Snow Leopard/Boot Camp experience soon as part of my recently revived Mac-to-Windows Switcher Guide, but I see I'm not the only one noticing the improvements in the latest Boot Camp release. Sadly, this... Posted Aug 31 2009, 02:47 PM by pthurrott with | with 85 comment(s) Filed under: Mac, Windows 7, Alt. Windows

• Could Microsoft Office finally be heading to Linux?

  Nine years ago , I learned about a skunkworks project Microsoft had handed off to an Israeli software firm that was to have seen a port of Microsoft Office to Linux. The port was seen as a just-in-case solution, but with Linux not ever taking off in any... Posted Aug 28 2009, 05:14 PM by pthurrott with | with 28 comment(s) Filed under: Alt. Windows, Smartphone, Mobile, Cloud computing

• Apple's culture of lies, Part 2: A different way of looking at it

  One thing I've often thought with Apple is how much worse off the PC industry would be if they were ever dominant, because they're such a belligerent company. But a more level-headed way to view Apple's recent push-backs from the top of the... Posted Aug 26 2009, 11:53 AM by pthurrott with | with 160 comment(s) Filed under: iPhone, Apple, iTunes, iPod, Alt. Windows, Commentary

• Apple's culture of lies finally dawns on a surprisingly unsuspecting world

  When it comes to my relationship, such as it is, with Apple, there's one thing that always gets in the way: Apple's culture of lies. The company is pathological about misrepresenting the truth. It's like they can't help it. This week,... Posted Aug 25 2009, 01:30 PM by pthurrott with | with 92 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Alt. Windows, Commentary

• Apple to ship Snow Leopard this week

  In a weird last-minute announcement, Apple announced this morning that it will ship its $29 Mac OS X service pack, called "Snow Leopard," on Friday. Apple today announced that Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard will go on sale Friday, August 28 at... Posted Aug 24 2009, 11:17 AM by pthurrott with | with 138 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, Mac, Windows 7, Alt. Windows

• Apple's growing slice of the music business – in pie charts

  Some good info from Fortune (and NPD): The NPD Group on Tuesday issued what at first appears to be a pair of contradictory facts: Apple now controls the largest share of the music business, its iTunes Store accounting for 25% of unit sales in the first... Posted Aug 18 2009, 06:08 PM by pthurrott with | with 26 comment(s) Filed under: Apple, iTunes, Alt. Windows, Digital media