Opinion – How would shopping for shoes compare to using a Mac. Jerry
Seinfeld and Bill Gates try to play such a scenario in a first episode
of a series of commercials to ridicule the tight gr
Friday, September 05, 2008 09:23
Analyst Opinion – Microsoft’s business is built on four main software
pillars - Windows, Office, Windows Server and IE. The two most
important, because they have the greatest number of
Thursday, September 04, 2008 23:28
Opinion – Microsoft has a tough time these days. First we complain that
they don’t react to Apple’s mean and insulting Mac vs. Vista
commercials and then nobody appears to like Microsoft’s ch
Friday, August 22, 2008 16:49
Analyst Opinion - Given the number of problems the iPhone had, the
device was lucky to have been brought to market by Apple. Any other
company would be dead in the market. Battery life is ter
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 12:43
Opinion – Ok, so we adjusted our hopes that Windows 7 will not become
that revolutionary operating system we hoped it would be. But the
ongoing flow of news suggests that we should downgrade
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 13:45
Analyst Opinion - Microsoft just released videos of the “Mojave
Experiment”, which basically was a survey session aiming to convince a
bunch of folks that Windows Vista is not as bad as they
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 00:10
...ting system with Vista
and almost all say that the recently released Service Pack 1 did not
change their opinion and almost half of respondents said that they may
be considering other operating sys...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:01
Opinion - Vista is to Microsoft as heart bypass surgery is to the old. Yes, it will keep you alive, but it’ll suck the life out of you in the process. There was a time when there were people wh
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 16:50
Opinion – Earlier this week, Microsoft and Netflix announced that movie
streaming will be coming to the Xbox 360. This could be a big deal. But
if you are really interested in watching Netfli
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 14:29
Analyst Opinion - Unless you have been living under a rock, you already know that
Microsoft’s latest operating system has not been a big success. Apple
takes great pleasure in Microsoft’s str
Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:45
Opinion - When we published an article detailing Nvidia's advantage in
3DMark Vantage, we had a good feeling that data might spark some
controversy. Using GPU for physics calculation in a CPU bench
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 16:02
...it is right now. A tool like the good old GetRight download manager would look great within Firefox in our opinion . Also noteworthy is the “intelligent” address bar that learns from what you are typ...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 01:01
Analyst Opinion - You really don’t get a sense for Microsoft’s breadth
of products unless you attend an event like TechEd. At the conference
you are introduced and trained on a product
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 19:11
...ntroversy over different Windows Vista versions that were brought to market and it is a generally accepted opinion that it is just not a good idea to run Windows Vista Aero on a 915 chipset. The 945 o...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 02:00
Opinion – Some days just don’t turn out in the way you expect they
would. In the case of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, their appearance at
D6 and a demonstration of a multi touch interface of
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 18:29
Analyst Opinion - It is clear that Microsoft and Apple take direction
from each other. Both firms were known as the original “Pirates of
Silicon Valley” after all. At the Wall Street Journal’
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 13:45
...ver a mass-market feature set. Apple has fixed product categories before (iPod?) and this category, in our opinion , makes too much sense to watch it die. Here is why. 1. Form-factor and design Imag...
Thursday, May 22, 2008 13:33
Analyst Opinion - Microsoft touches most of us every day, some of us all day with their
products – which makes them a perfect model to use when discussing a
supplier’s behavior and attitude t
Monday, April 21, 2008 15:58
Opinion - As if we needed any more confirmation: Steve Ballmer made
official what many of us have been suspecting for more than a year.
Vista isn’t final, it’s a work in progress, according t
Friday, April 18, 2008 14:25
Opinion - Even if you are following tech news just loosely, by now you
probably have heard about PsyStar, accompany that intends to challenge
the OS X License Agreement, which could enable it
Thursday, April 17, 2008 13:46
Analyst Opinion - I’m not a big fan of public wars between companies. They tend to
focus the firm on their competitor rather than their customers and
these fights also tend to get
Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:15
...ven the fact, that you can buy 45 nm Wolfdale CPUs for the same money. The premium is high enough, in our opinion , to make this a very unattractive SKU for the MID market and reserve this particular ...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 22:30
...tensions (EAX) – which have been used
by Creative since 2001. As you might imagine, Asus has a different
opinion . Fremont (CA) – CPU wars, graphics wars and now we also have sound wars. Despite the ...
Thursday, March 27, 2008 16:28
Analyst Opinion - Outside of Boston Legal, this litigation is one of
the most twisted ones I can recall. I have had a fascination with
litigation for years, particular for those lawsuit
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 16:50
Opinion - Given the speed Sony reacted to the outrage over the company’s fee for removing crapware from one of its notebooks, I am pretty sure that the marketing folks are still trying to fig
Monday, March 24, 2008 03:00
...inking: The perfect
next generation ultra-sexy notebook should be a blend of all three
products. Analyst Opinion - As some of you know, I actually like the Macbook Air but found the Lenovo ThinkPad ...
Friday, March 21, 2008 11:03
...ness. According to the manufacturer, compressing and uncompressing data is much faster now, which, in our opinion could have been easily fixed by the company by simply licensing (or buying for that m...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 15:34
Analyst Opinion - The gaming market is in a real mess right now. We have 4 active game systems the Nintendo Wii, the Xbox 360, the PS3, and, not to forget, the PS2, which outsold all of the others l
Friday, February 29, 2008 11:09
...alf of 2007
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Paramount and Dream...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 09:21
...n the mainstream, it is still the enthusiast user and early adopter that remains the driver of the general opinion on both formats on the Internet. We are following this format war closely and, as a r...
Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:30
Analyst Opinion - Looking into buying a high-end AMD or Intel desktop monster? Here’s some food for thought on AMD’s and Intel’s fastest systems available today. Analyst Opinion - L
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 16:17
Analyst Opinion - Earlier this week Microsoft announced its Virtualization initiative and I’m sure most of you are so excited you can barely contain yourself. Maybe that’s a bit sarcastic
Thursday, January 24, 2008 17:19
...a frequent contributor to our coverage of the technology industry. You may not always agree with his opinion s as we learn from week to week when we are following our readers' comments to Rob...
Friday, December 28, 2007 11:00
...re, compute intensive applications, specifically those targeted for Larrabee and Terascale. Author's opinion Software is getting ready to take a huge leap. Presently, nearly everything is ...
Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:50
Analyst Opinion - The fourth quarter, particularly after Black Friday, is particularly important to the PC industry. PCs are, for the first time in this decade, according to the CEA, at the top of t
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 14:59
Opinion - Vista has the capability of turning a multi-thousand dollar piece of equipment, and turning it into a brick. UPDATE: Response to commenters. UPDATE #2: Information about pr
Thursday, October 18, 2007 08:20
...buntu which include custom software by default, both for end users and server needs. TG Daily collective opinion to date If TG Daily's audience is any indication, Ubuntu is falling into a wider ...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 08:00
Analyst Opinion - One thing you learn over time is if you get a government agency involved in a competitive dispute, the outcome may not be what you expect and the amount of time to get some sort of
Thursday, September 20, 2007 15:17
...tual machine on an Ubuntu-based Linux box. VMware is also available for Windows, but, in my personal opinion , it really defeats the purpose of running virtualized machines if you're going to...
Monday, August 13, 2007 16:16
Opinion - Well it didn’t take long for the fairy tale honeymoon debut of Virgin America to wear off. Opinion - Well, it didn’t take long for the fairy tale honeymoon debut of Virgin Ame
Monday, August 13, 2007 14:32
... where things are headed. It's a future showing us that this thing called virtualization, in our opinion , has the potential to change the computing world. Background The first thin...
Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:50
Analyst Opinion - While many of my peers were watching the battle between consoles and PCs this week and were wondering, like me, if Sony has lost the console war, we’ll save a console discussi
Friday, July 13, 2007 14:00
... and the back of the iPhone consist of a mix of matte, shiny and black plastic covers – which in our opinion would have deserved upgraded material choices, given the high price of the phone. For...
Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:04
Analyst Opinion - At Computex this week we saw a new round of the battle of CPU manufacturers: Intel came out swinging hard, which further validated AMD’s ATI acquisition strategy. But AMD may
Friday, June 08, 2007 11:34
When I was briefed on Surface (previously code-named Milan) a few days ago, I was incredibly impressed. Having gotten used to disappointments like Origami, Zune, and even the Media Center PC where M
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:20
Dell and Gateway are getting more serious to capture market share in the PC gaming market. Rob Enderle has a look at both strategies and the products behind it.When I first started out covering PCs, D
Friday, May 25, 2007 10:04
There is a lot going on this week in terms of laptop PCs thanks to the arrival of Intel’s new Santa Rosa chipset. But this isn’t just about Intel, new AMD products are rolling to market
Friday, May 11, 2007 12:08
Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced that it will be exiting the dedicated Media Center Edition (MCE) business – surprising news since the company was the clear leader in boxes built for this purpose
Tuesday, April 03, 2007 09:15
... did not communicate this message properly." The second area that could see improvement, in Walkers opinion , focused on the supply chain management firm ModusLink. "The sign-up process bro...
Thursday, February 22, 2007 16:26
Windows Vista is out the gate, but Apple is gearing up to unleash its latest wildcat, Leopard. How does it compare to Vista and will it be strong enough to offer convincing incentives over the use of
Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:07