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1. Windows 7 sales outpace Vista adoption

   (Software/Software Features)

   Microsoft finally gets it right Initial sales of Microsoft Windows 7 have reportedly "surpassed" those of Vista by 234 percent. According to the NPD Group, a combination of pre-sale discounts and a lack ...

2. Apple reverses Atom Snow Leopard ban

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... strategy Why Apple should license Windows 7 Unidentified bug causes massive CPU spike on 27-inch iMacs Opinion: Ditching Windows has never felt so good  ...

3. Is Windows 7 too good for Apple to FUD?

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Opinion: Apple was blindsided by Windows 7. It wasn’t the product which they saw coming, it was the sustaining marketing budget and positive reviews from Apple loyalists like Walt Mossberg they ...

4. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

   Opinion: A few months back, we took the brave - some might say daft - decision to allow readers to post comments on TG Daily stories without an editor approving them first. Not many sites do this. OK, ...

5. Geeks Are Losers

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Opinion: Whether it's a book fantasizing about a world in which Google executives run the United States or another tome that suggests geeks are on the road to controlling the globe, there's a hopeful ...

6. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... his services to most of the major technology and media companies. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer.  ...

7. Opinion: Ditching Windows has never felt so good

   (Opinion/Opinion Features)

   Microsoft has launched yet another iteration of its infamous Windows operating system. Fortunately, I have chosen to opt out of the Microsoft universe and am well on my way to becoming a loyal disciple ...

8. Microsoft upgrades Bing with live Twitter feed

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... such as Twitter provide unique access to public opinion and thoughts - which  US Bing users can now easily search through.    "If you want to keep an eye on [a specific] topic, you can ...

9. Insecurity leads to fascism

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Opinion: This weekend we were treated to two yarns from security experts whose main role appears to be making a living from people's fears. Both reveal a considerable amount about the mindset of the ...

10. Analysts spout crap, charge megabucks

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Opinion: Analysts are just journalists in sharp suits who only have to write two stories a year for their $250K salaries. And just because you have to pay through the nose to read their words of wisdom ...

11. Windows 7 Starter Edition: The best version of Windows yet

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... or make suggestions, tactical and strategic, on how to best take advantage of them. Currently he provides his services to most of the major technology and media companies. The opinions expressed in ...

12. Windows, users, guns and stupidity

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Opinion: Our earlier story on how fast or slow Windows 7 boots and shuts down has attracted some critical acclaim and some critical unacclaim from people who obviously didn’t bother to read the story ...

13. Keep on blogging in the free world

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Opinion: Google or Bing "corporate blogs." Just below the ubiquitous Wikipedia entry, in the number two slot, is: "Ten Corporate Blogs Worth Reading." Click on it. Listed at number 5 is: "Check Out ...

14. Windows 7 boots fast enough for normal people

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Opinion: Shock news reaches us from iolo Technologies claiming that Windows 7 takes ages to load. Our response: who gives a rat’s ass, especially as it doesn't... Opinion: Shock news reaches us from ...

15. Free Software Foundation goes mad

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Opinion: Most folks kinda like supporting the little guy up against The Man. But when the little guy sticks his shorts over his head, puts pencils up his nose and starts saying ‘wibble’, most normal ...

16. Windows 6.5: Living in a Post iPhone World is a Bitch

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... best take advantage of them. Currently he provides his services to most of the major technology and media companies. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer.  ...

17. High tech won't save the economy this time

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Opinion: In 1982-1983 the economy in the West was battered. Unemployment in the U.S. reached 9.7 percent. The United Nations pegged growth for developed nations around one percent. Stagnation and recession ...

18. Nvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing"

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Opinion)

    ... to most of the major technology and media companies. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer.  ...

19. Apple's new Macs better be cheap

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Opinion: It's no surprise that Apple will be unveiling new iMacs and MacBooks soon. Rumors have been floating for weeks and now retailers are running out of stock of existing units and being told, in ...

20. EU says Google AdWords are fair game

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... whether Google has committed a trade mark infringement by making available such keywords to advertisers and if the company can be held liable for the content featured in AdWords." In his opinion ...

21. What’s wrong with a Google virtual library?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    Opinion On the face of it, it seems like a great idea. Have every single book in the world digitized so at the click of a button you can read translations of Plotinus, read Suetonias’ work on the Caesars, ...

22. Apple lines up against Palm, Microsoft. And Apple

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Opinion This week was the big Apple iPod refresh and the interest was almost as focused on what Apple didn’t announce as it was on what they did.   I think the overarching news was that despite ...

23. Google: Ah, Mr Bond. I've been expecting you…

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Opinion - Once upon a time, writers made phone calls, talked to people and wrote news. Google has stopped all that nonsense. Opinion - Once upon a time, writers made phone calls, talked to people and ...

24. Mozilla finally loses all credibility

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Opinion - You couldn't make this stuff up. The Mozilla Corporation - and never was the word 'corporation' applied to such an undeserving bunch of spineless no-hopers - is now whingeing that Microsoft's ...

25. i4i 'not interested' in bringing Microsoft to its knees

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 2003 and Word 2007. "In my opinion, the permanent injunction is the biggest and most significant achievement," said Owen. "It prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft ...

26. War declared: Apple’s Cult Takes on Google’s Borg

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Analyst Opinion - The ignorant masses milling around the iPod display at the local Wal-Mart last week had no idea that they were at Ground Zero of the next titanic battle in all of technologydom. And ...

27. Microhoo is not just about traffic. It’s about data. Period.

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Opinion – I am glad some deal between Microsoft and Yahoo finally got done. Despite its seemingly simple purpose to give Microsoft much more leverage in advertising through increased search market share, ...

28. Will Windows Mobile become extinct?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Analyst Opinion - Microsoft has been a key player in the mobile device market since the early days of smartphones with its Windows Mobile Operating System (OS). And because of its affinity to the Windows desktop ...

29. Google Chrome OS: Gcrap reveals the next Netscape

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Analyst Opinion - It can be entertaining to watch companies that have learned to manage expectations. They set low bars, generally fail at what they attempt, and yet the folks in charge of the programs ...

30. Analysis: Microsoft prepares to dominate global console market

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... Sony and Nintendo announced "some new updates" at the 2009 E3 conference, including the PSP Go and Wii Motion Plus. However, in Olausson's opinion, the two simply recycled "more of the same." Olausson ...

31. Apple's iPhone has yet to meet its Microsoft

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    Opinion - Apple's App Store celebrates a year of existence and 1.5 billion downloads from 65,000 applications. It is astonishing, and all of it despite a less than developer friendly approach by the company, ...

32. Is Microsoft set up for failure with Windows 7 and Office 2010?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Opinion – Ok, let’s be realistic. It can’t get much worse for Microsoft than Windows Vista, which exposed the vulnerability of Microsoft’s most important product. And it is easy to understand Microsoft’s ...

33. Google Chrome OS: Is Google finally jumping the shark?

    (Software/Software Features)

      Analyst Opinion - Every company reaches a point in its history where the bloom falls off the rose. I worry that Google has just hit that wall. Analyst Opinion - Every company reaches a point in ...

34. Google's a threat to you, not Microsoft

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Opinion Google's upcoming Chrome operating system may be many things to many people, but one thing it certainly ain't is an operating system. Neither is it a threat to Microsoft. And it couldn't play ...

35. Meet your new boss: Google

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Opinion – Ten years ago, when I first interviewed the founders of a 30-people strong company and was confronted with the claim that it had reinvented the search engine wheel, I had little reason to ...

36. Microsoft pukes one up

    (Software/Software Features)

    Analyst Opinion - In the YouTube era, the ultimate sign of credibility is for one of our videos to go viral. Who among us hasn't secretly wished to be the next Susan Boyle - well, except for the frumpiness ...

37. Firefox, IE. Tech journalists are a disgrace

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Opinion: Let's imagine for a moment that we're in a strange parallel universe. Many things appear the same, but there are subtle differences. Today, for example, Microsoft launched the new version of ...

38. Update: Firefox 3.5 is fast, but still behind Chrome and Safari

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 3.5, which was well behind the WebKit engine-based Chrome and Safari browsers. Now that we have the final version, we wondered: Did Firefox gain more speed? The opinions about Apple’s Safari browser may ...

39. Windows 7 is a better Windows than Windows, yeah right

    (Software/Software Features)

    Opinion - Microsoft seems to have developed an astonishing ability to forget the past with its introduction of Windows 7, an amnesia that is matched only by its long time partner, Intel.Opinion - Microsoft ...

40. Intel + Nokia: In search of relevance

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Analyst Opinion - Intel  and Nokia announced a strategic relationship this week, a relationship that would point to a cooperation targeting the development of next-generation communicatiosn devices. ...

41. That new Xbox for 2010 … real or fake news?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Opinion – It appears that there has been a lot of chatter about what Steve Ballmer told an audience of 1500 Chicago executives yesterday at a luncheon of The Executives Club of Chicago. Ballmer mentioned ...

42. Bing to define Microsoft’s capability to innovate

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Opinion – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday gave a casual speech in front of more than 1500 members and guests of the Executives Club of Chicago, explaining the importance of innovation during ...

43. Microsoft does Reality TV with Jack and Suzy Welch

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Analyst Opinion - This is an interesting idea.  Do a reality TV program on the web using Jack Welch, who is arguably a more famous success than Donald Trump and focus on a real problem. In this ...

44. EU gangs up with Microsoft rivals to fight the Evil Empire

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Opinion: The European Union, which clearly views successful US companies such as Microsoft and Intel as the spawn of the devil, is ganging up with their less-successful rivals to fight the forces of ...

45. Apple WWDC: How to take on Windows 7

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Analyst Opinion - It’s a shame we can't have a DVD of a great Apple product pitch. When Apple gets it right, no one does it better. They can miss from time to time, but it's such a rare occurrence that ...

46. Moblin and netbook make an interesting pair

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... going to be carrying these dinky things around with you, and this is such a lean OS that it’s bound to be less power hungry than Windows XP, for example. Opinions are divided as to whether Moblin will ...

47. Microsoft claims E3 victory as Nintendo stumbles

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... Go and Wii Motion Plus. However, in Olausson's opinion, both companies simply unveiled "more of the same." Olausson also noted that neither firm offered a "clear vision" for entertainment services beyond ...

48. Dinging Bing: 5 reasons why Microsoft’s new search engine will fail

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Opinion – Now that we all had a chance to play with Microsoft’s new Bing engine, are we ready to ditch Google? Are we binging instead of googling? I’d like you to chime in and let us know what you ...

49. Palm’s massive iTunes gamble: Are they nuts?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Analyst Opinion - No guts, no glory. And as Palm tries to regain a slice of what made it such a cool company in the 1990s, its latest move is an eyebrow-raiser. The company’s decision to enable Palm ...

50. Palm: Dead company walking?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Analyst Opinion - Palm and Apple remind me a lot of Netscape and Microsoft. Netscape came out early and promised to put Microsoft out of business. When Netscape did not execute, Microsoft took Netscape's market.  ...