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Our friends at MacGamer have announced a joint contest with Parallels, makers of Parallels Desktop 4.0. Heaven knows we love our Mac games, but there a lot of great ones on the PC that never have and never will come our way, and Parallels Desktop 4.0 allows Mac OS X… Continue Reading »

Turns out surreptitious Microsoft updates are no longer a PC-only problem. Microsoft’s Genuine Advantage program is designed to check that copies of Windows as well as Windows-based software (mainly Office) are properly licensed. The stated goal of this program is to “... giv[e] you full capabilities, access to all the… Continue Reading »

A little late to the party, it appears as if Microsoft has finally decided that they, too, want to make their own phone to market and sell. If this rumor is, in fact, true, the device will be powered by an Nvidia Tegra chipset and obviously run some flavor of… Continue Reading »

I am not going to bad mouth Microsoft or Bill Gates; there are enough people out there who choose to do that. Bill Gates donates millions of dollars every year to charity, and even has his own charitable foundation. That being said, let me describe a situation for you and… Continue Reading »

Belkin’s long been a quality name for cables and peripherals (esp. on the Mac side), and now they’re introducing a USB 2.0 cable that makes it easier for Windows users to migrate to Mac. The whole kit includes special migration software, with an eye towards transferring Windows files and applications… Continue Reading »

Today, Parallels announced the availability of their virtualization software Desktop version 4.0. It has a slew of new features, such as Modality, Smart Mount, 64 bit support and Speech Recognition. It’s also said to be 50% faster than version 3.0. You can buy the package for $79.99, or upgrade from… Continue Reading »

Neither Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Microsoft Windows 7 have been released to the public yet. They both promise to be a nice improvement from that last release of each OS and offer some interesting new capabilities. Despite not being on the market yet, The Onion decided that now… Continue Reading »

Windows 7 is only two years away (if you believe the—heh heh—totally trustworthy product timeline), and Microsoft is treating Vista as the OS that dare not speak its name, but let’s take a few minutes, shall we, to laugh at Windows XP, the Microsoft OS that looks competent next to… Continue Reading »

Could Steve Ballmer get any more confusing? He laments the lack of openness in the iPhone OS and Google’s Android, will swear up one side and down the other that proprietary walled gardens are better, but then publicly contemplates an open future for Microsoft’s flagship browser! At the Power to… Continue Reading »

Apple has fired back in the ad wars. See the ads here, read thoughtful analysis of the point Apple seeks to make here or here. More important than this second round of cinematic squabbling, however, are reactions to the campaigns: blogs the world over are sounding off with reactions, analysis,… Continue Reading »