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  • Too Stupid to Use Spaces
  • New PC Gives Mossberg Anguish – Shoulda Bought a Mac
  • Microsoft vs Apple and Linux Roundup
  • Vista: Microsoft’s Apex
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    Too Stupid to Use Spaces

    June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

    Fortune Small Business published this drivel in response to a serious question: Is it time to consider moving your small business to Macs? Their answer: it makes sense for maybe 20 companies out of 100, up from just 5 a few years back. Here are the reasons Macs won’t work for your small business: The [...]

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    Tags: Apple · Mac · Productivity · Vista

    New PC Gives Mossberg Anguish – Shoulda Bought a Mac

    April 7th, 2007 · No Comments

    Shoulda bought a MacWalt Mossberg bought a new Sony Vaio with Windows Vista and spent hours uninstalling “craplets” – those annoying teaser ads and programs that come on PCs. His new toy ended up being quite a hassle uninstalling the teaser programs, configuring the security software and then installing 21 different updates from Sony. To [...]

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    Microsoft vs Apple and Linux Roundup

    March 11th, 2007 · No Comments

    Here is some more scathing commentary referencing the failure of buggy OneCare to protect adequately against viruses. Like Dell, it looks like HP is considering shipping Linux machines again. Roughly Drafted says Apple is beating Microsoft by nabbing the most profitable sectors of the market , noting that Apples imminent domination over Microsoft is similar [...]

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    Tags: Apple · Linux · Vista

    Vista: Microsoft’s Apex

    March 6th, 2007 · No Comments

    Alan Shimel asked whether or not Vista was compelling enough.  I wondered the same thing after I read this article that discusses the indefinite moratorium on all Vista upgrades for the U.S. DOT.  Similarly, (and here) the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency warned: …there are no "must-have" features in Vista and that "technical, financial [...]

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