Long-term readers of this site will know that I use both Windows and Linux regularly. I appreciate the relative strengths and weaknesses of each. And I admit that there are places where Linux is simply left behind (games, some graphics applications). But one thing I rarely see is a discussion of where Windows is failing [...]

Ah! Where did all these Facebook stories come from all of a sudden? Wired sniffs about it haughtily. O’Reilly Radar beeps frenetically. Programmable Web makes a pithy observation. The Register snarks about it. Read-Write Web wrings its hands over it. Are Technica reports the facts. ZDNet looks alarmed. Search-Engine Watch watches the deal like a [...]

The new Firefox just came out five days ago, and I’ve had the opportunity to get an early peek at it. This update is important, because it fixes a whole slew of security and stability issues, in both Windows and Linux. It also now has official support for Romanian and Georgian languages. Given how many [...]