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I have been using the Safari 4 beta for a little over 24 hours now on both Windows XP/Vista and OS X Tiger/Leopard.  Apart from the slight learning curve (where’d my Tab bar go?!), I have to say, I love the OS X version. The Windows side of things is,… Continue Reading »

I have been using Safari for Windows at work since it was released in 2007. I have tried to be patient with it, because I know Apple, except for iTunes, is not in the business of making applications for Windows. With the most recent release 3.2.1 in November of last… Continue Reading »

XKCD Comics, an extremely popular online comic strip that can usually be found among the top ten stories on Digg, has created a pretty funny comic about the new Windows 7 beta. This beta, which has been released to the public (2.5 million to be exact) this week at CES,… 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 »

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 »

The Ballmer brigade up there in Redmond really are shameless. The irony is almost as hilarious as it is ridiculous. For those who don’t know, Microsoft recently ended their short lived Jerry Seinfeld campaign, and started a new campaign featuring a John Hodgeman look-alike and various other people ranging from… Continue Reading »

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The International Space Station has been infiltrated. That’s right, a virus has made it’s way onto the computers of the International Space Station. The computers, running Windows XP, were non-mission-critical, containing things like e-mail and “nutritional experiments.” The computers were infected by the W32.Gammima.AG worm, which harvests credentials for online… Continue Reading »

Have you heard nothing but bad things about Windows Vista? You aren’t the only one.  Microsoft has recently launched a new website and ad campaign called “The Mojave Experiment” in response to all of the bad publicity that Vista has gotten since its release over a year and a half… Continue Reading »

According to NetApplications, Mac OS X and Safari are continuing their upward climb on the market share ladder. In May, Mac OS X saw a 0.45% climb in market share to 7.83%, with Safari seeing an 0.44% jump to 6.25%. Safari for Windows has been growing quite a bit in… Continue Reading »