dan tynan on Feb 16 2010 | Filed under: Cringley, Gadgets, Google, Infoworld, iPhone, Microsoft
They’re baaaack. Just when you thought the dragon had been mortally wounded and sloughed off to its cave to die, it comes back spitting fire and disturbing the neighbors. At this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft introduced a new mobile operating system that appears to be nothing like any OS it’s ever invented, [...]
dan tynan on Jul 17 2009 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
One of geekdom’s oldest cold wars has suddenly turned hot, as Redmond and Cupertino duke it out in public. Cringe has an idea who’ll win.
dan tynan on Jun 26 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
Microsoft trims Windows 7 prices in the hopes of convincing people to pony up. Cringely finds himself caught up in discount fever.
dan tynan on Apr 10 2009 | Filed under: Infoworld, Quizzes
Some relationships just aren’t meant to be — as IBM and Sun Micro found out when what looked like a rock-solid deal disintegrated overnight. But they weren’t the only ones enduring a bittersweet parting this week. Will Wright and Electronic Arts, Fox News and Roger Friedman, Google and the newspaper industry, iTunes fans and the [...]
dan tynan on Mar 28 2009 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
The Windows/Mac holy wars are back with a vengeance. As you may recall, last week Steve “The Mad” Ballmer’s declared that the only difference between an Apple Macintosh and a Windows PC is a $500 logo. What seemed to be yet another bout of Ballmer’s persistent Tourette’s turns out to be a cunning marketing ploy, [...]
dan tynan on Mar 23 2009 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Dell Heck, Infoworld, Microsoft
Microsoft’s Big Cheese says in a down economy people won’t pay $500 just for the Mac logo. Are Apple fanboyz crazy about logos or is Ballmer just plain loco?
dan tynan on Mar 04 2009 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft
It’s quasi-official: Microsoft will be rebranding its Live Search service in yet another pathetic attempt to catch up to Google. Cringely wonders: Why bother?
dan tynan on Jan 26 2009 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
Mac malware is spreading across the Net via pirated software. But the nasties attacking Windows are even worse. It’s getting ugly out there.
dan tynan on Dec 24 2008 | Filed under: Computerworld, Culture Crash, Santa, baby
Why should Santa have all the fun? I’ve also been making a list and checking it twice to figure out who deserves treats in their stockings and who’s getting a big honkin’ lump of coal. Here in no particular order are my picks for the good/bad boys and girls of tech for 2008. Naughty: Apple [...]
dan tynan on Nov 21 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
What do Microsoft and OJ have in common? Highly public courts cases with lots of incriminating evidence. But no amount of laywerly magic may be able to save Redmond from the public’s verdict.
dan tynan on Nov 12 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Are journalists to blame for Vista’s failure to catch on? Will Windows 7 suffer a similar fate? Cringely tosses more gasoline on the OS fire.
dan tynan on Oct 29 2008 | Filed under: 15 minutes, Apple, Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft, Shameless self promotion
My, my. The “Windows: Unsafe at any speed?” post last week certainly raised a few hackles -– thanks in part to a totally unexpected appearance on the New York Times web site. (Hello New Yawkers, and welcome to Geek Street USA.) I haven’t gotten this violent a reaction since I suggested the Creation Museum add [...]
dan tynan on Oct 24 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
Microsoft has issued an emergency patch for Windows (again). Is it time to finally trade in that old clunker for something that works? Cringely has a few thoughts.
dan tynan on Sep 03 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Google, Microsoft, Web 2.0
It’s all Chrome, all the time, here on the InterWeb. Does Google’s browser beta live up to the hype? Well, yes and no. Cringely has more.
dan tynan on Jul 05 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.) It turns out the reports of XP’s death may be slightly exaggerated. Sure, the obits have been posted and the requiems are being sung. The fat lady has already packed up her girdle and gone home with a bucket of KFC. Yet it seems [...]
dan tynan on Jun 30 2008 | Filed under: Google, Microsoft, National insecurity, PC World
Microsoft’s cofounder says he’ll do charitable work after he retires this month. But we have some other suggestions: driving instructor, expert witness, and circus clown for starters. And Bill has experience in all of them. (A version of this post originally appeared on PCworld.com) For more than 30 years he has roamed among us, a [...]
dan tynan on Apr 21 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
(This post originally appeared in and/or on Infoworld’s Notes from the Field blog.) by Robert X. Cringely The international movement to save endangered operating systems (aka Windows XP) has gained supporters in unlikely quarters. Cringester J. C. reports: Just got a call from my Dell rep: Dell will provide XP on business class computers (Latitude [...]
dan tynan on Apr 18 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes from the Field blog.) by Robert X. Cringely Blunder Road. A Microsoft music video by “Bruce ServicePack and the Vista Street Band” has been causing a few chuckles and a lot of retching across the Net. In the video, a Born in the USA-era Springsteen impersonator sings: “Last [...]
dan tynan on Apr 14 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Microsoft, Things that suck
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.) by Robert X. Cringely That creaking sound, the dust, that feeling of vague but imminent doom? It’s not an earthquake. Your office isn’t falling into a sink hole. It’s the warning signs of Windows collapsing. According to a presentation served up last week by [...]
dan tynan on Apr 04 2008 | Filed under: Apple, Cringley, Google, Infoworld, iPhone, Microsoft, Steve Jobs
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.) by Robert X. Cringely Full speed behind. It seems the rumors of XP’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Microsoft has bowed to overwhelming demand and decided to give XP a reprieve, kinda sorta. Scheduled to get the gas chamber in July, XP will continue [...]
