Tedious

Where Has Microsoft's Growth Gone?

As long as there are hardware builders to lazy/stupid to write their own operating systems, Microsoft will always have customers.

iPhone (Apple) vs. BlackBerry (RIM): Which Do Consumers Love Most?

Simply put: E-Mail addicts NEED a physical keyboard, everyone else loves the iPhone.

Why I'm All About Apple

[geek mode ON]

For what it's worth: "MAC" is short for Machine Access Code" "Mac" is short for Macintosh. "mac" is short for elbow macaroni.

[geek mode OFF]

The Mac OS X Malware Myth Continues

I don't think MS has to scrap Windows and start from scratch. Apple didn't even start over from scratch. The Carbon API is an OS X port of the "Classic" API that Apple stopped selling over a half decade ago and stopped supporting last week. The Carbon version has also been abandoned in 32-bit land. Expect it's support to end in 2 to 4 years.

I think that MS should take THAT page from Apple's book and start depreciating API sets (like any Direct X before 7 and the entire Win16 API) and port their new APIs to a BSD based filesystem running on a their 64-bit NT kernel.

Backward compatibility all the way back to PC-DOS 1.0 may be what MADE Microsoft, but it will be what kills it if it doesn't start pruning their code base (regardless of how many lazy grey-beard developers it will piss off).

Could a Dell/Apple Partnership Work?

Why doesn't Dell write it's own darned operating system? Remember when computer makers wrote their own OS? Stop buying from Microsoft and make Dell OS 1.0.

Base it on Darwin. Just to ruffle everyone's feathers.