Even though the economy isn't at its best, both Microsoft and Apple seem to be doing well. A couple of recent articles point this out:

In Microsoft's annual revenue report, they announced that they have seen the fastest revenue growth since 1999 which fueled a 32% increase in earnings per share. Helping their earnings was none other than Windows Vista. Thus far they have sold over 180 million

Back in the beginning of June at WWDC, Apple announced that they would be replacing their .Mac service with a new service called MobileMe. They described it as "Exchange for the rest of us" and said users would have push email, contacts and calendars. It sounded impressive, but would cost users a subscription fee of $99 for 20 GB of online storage. For someone

Microsoft has opened the doors of its Live Mesh service so that anyone with a Windows Live ID can immediately start using it. It is only available for users in the US, but the Live Mesh team says that this restriction can easily be circumvented by setting your operating system region and language settings to EN-US:

Signing up for Live Mesh now!

The Live

I'm sure for most of you Windows 3.11 has been out of your life for quite some time, but just because the operating system was retired from the retail market years ago doesn't mean it wasn't still available. In fact OEM's are still able to license Windows 3.11 in the embedded channel, but come November 1st, 2008 that will no longer be an option.

Amidst the disbelief

In the past we have mentioned The Green Button, a site dedicated to Windows Media Center. They have all kinds of great information available to those needing questions about their Media Center answered. Over-time it has become even more helpful with actual members of the Microsoft Media Center team dropping by to personally answer questions. While we own Macs for personal use, we are huge

Several weeks ago we wrote about how Microsoft is serious about improving their brand by hiring a well-known firm, Crispin Porter & Bokusky, to help them find ways to improve the way people view Microsoft. Now we're getting a few more details about what the firm is going to be doing for them. Microsoft knows that those Mac vs. PC commercials are causing an

In one of Bill Gates' last interviews before he left Microsoft at the end of June, he said that a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo wasn't likely to happen. He was speaking with Tom Brokaw of NBC news and was asked, "Do you think in a year from now, when you're down at the foundation offices, you'll look up at Microsoft and see Yahoo as a