A leaked memo from Microsoft lists unusually high return rates for the Surface Book and the Surface Pro 4…
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Leaked Microsoft memo reveals failure-prone Surface Book suffers from high return rates
The Surface Book has suffered from consistently higher return rates than any other…
Consumer Reports: Apple makes the most reliable devices; steer clear of Microsoft’s unreliable Surface products
The breakage rate for Microsoft Corp’s Surface devices is significantly worse than for other manufacturers…
Consumer Reports: Don’t buy Microsoft Surface products
Consumer Reports has pulled its recommendation of Microsoft’s Surface line of laptops and 2-in-1s…
Since the iPhone launched, Apple has made more than Microsoft and Alphabet combined
iPhones are a great business…
Microsoft accidentally reveals its own iPad Touch Cover
Microsoft appears to be working on an iPad Touch Cover…
New U.S. government data on H-1B visas prove that IT outsourcers hire a lot but pay very little
A small number of IT outsourcing companies get a disproportionately high number of H-1B visas and pay below-average wages to their workers…
Microsoft’s Windows Phone failure was easily preventable, but the company’s culture made it unavoidable
How could Microsoft’s Windows Phone licensing business model stand a chance against Google’s Free and Open Android?
iCloud changes put Apple on collision course with overreaching governments
Apple has consistently argued against laws that would require tech companies to build so-called ‘back doors’ into their software…
Apple flies in top executives to lobby Australia’s Turnbull government on encryption laws
Apple’s top privacy executives have flown out to Australia twice in the past month…
Apple meeting with Australian government to discuss proposed encryption ‘back doors’
Attorney-General George Brandis will meet with global tech-giant Apple this week…
Commitment to user privacy complicates Apple’s push into artificial intelligence
To build and run machine learning services you need computing power and data, and the more you have of each the more powerful your software can be…
Beleaguered Microsoft announces yet another major reorg; axes up to 3,000 employees
Microsoft announced a major reorganization on Wednesday that will include thousands of layoffs…
Beleaguered Microsoft to ax ‘thousands’ more employees
Microsoft is poised to layoff thousands of employees worldwide..
Survey: Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. Windows users intend to switch to a Mac within next 6 months
Nearly all (98% or more) current Mac owners intend to stay with Macs as their next computer…
Reviewers hate Microsoft’s ‘Windows 10 S’
Microsoft debuted its first true laptop last week that can only run a subset of that software that any Mac can run…
Using Microsoft Office on a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, six months on
Apple introduced the first iteration of its MacBook Pro with Touch Bar…
High Sierra leaves Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 behind, 2016 edition needs updating
While the Office 2016 suite of applications from unreleased version 15.35 and later…
Desperate Microsoft’s phony Surface Pro vs. Apple iPad Pro comparisons
Microsoft recently announced an updated version of its Surface Pro line of tablet/notebook computer hybrids…
The best alternatives to Microsoft Office for Mac
What’s the best alternative to Microsoft Office on the Mac?
Microsoft held back free fix that could’ve contained the devastating WannaCry Windows PC epidemic
Microsoft held back from distributing a free repair for old versions of its software that could have slowed last week’s devastating ransomware attack…
Apple’s sad, sad numbers
All five companies combine for over $500-billion in revenue and $94-billion in profits…
The Microsoft Tax: How to avoid the WannaCry virus if you’re slumming it with Windows on your Mac
The worm/virus combination could hit a Mac user with a Boot Camp partition or Windows virtual machines…
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple likely to launch all-new 10.5 inch iPad Pro and Siri Speaker at WWDC
Apple’s WWDC conference kicks off on June 5th and whilst it is predominantly a software conference…
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop vs. Apple’s MacBook Air, MacBook, and MacBook Pro
The MacBook Air has been such a hit for Apple the past few years that even Microsoft…
Microsoft makes Visual Studio for Mac generally available
Microsoft is making its Visual Studio for Mac product generally available today…
Microsoft’s ‘me too’ smart speaker
First there was Amazon’s Echo, which I characterized as an attempt to advance home automation…
President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey who called for iPhone backdoor
President Trump has fired the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey…
After U.S. gov’t refuses to declassify sum paid for FBI’s San Bernardino iPhone hack, Senator Dianne Feinstein inadvertently reveals it
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate committee that oversees the FBI, said publicly this week that the government paid $900,000 to break into the locked iPhone…
What if Apple did what Microsoft just did?
Microsoft selling a MacBook killer called the Surface Laptop…
Apple will find it hard to ignore Microsoft’s new $999 Surface Laptop
Microsoft is now chasing another category many believe is Apple’s to lose…
Microsoft’s hardware business takes a hit as Surface sales sag and Windows Phones fade
Microsoft suffered lower-than-expected sales of Surface Pro products…
Fake news: Microsoft Surface vs. Apple iPad, Mac
The false Surface media narrative…
Microsoft took 9 months to fix bug that let hackers seize control of Windows PCs
To understand why it is so difficult to defend computers from even moderately capable hackers…
The 5 U.S. companies with the biggest piles of overseas cash
The Trump administration’s proposal to lower the corporate tax rate to 15% has revived hopes…
Samsung’s Siri knockoff ‘Bixby’ not ready for Galaxy 8 global launch
Samsung has gone to great lengths to position its new Bixby assistant as the automated centerpiece…
WikiLeaks reveals CIA’s secret software tools for infecting Microsoft’s Windows
27 documents related to ‘Grasshopper,’ the codename for a set of software tools used to build customized malware for Windows PCs…
J.D. Power: Microsoft ranks highest in tablet satisfaction
Microsoft ranks highest in overall satisfaction in the J.D. Power 2017 U.S. Tablet Satisfaction Study…
Microsoft launches social networking app ‘Who’s In’ via Apple’s App Store for iMessage
Microsoft launched a new app for Apple’s iMessage App Store today called ‘Who’s In’ intended…
Android surpasses Windows in online OS usage share worldwide
Google’s Android is now the most popular OS in the world across all hardware platforms…
WikiLeaks to give Apple, Google, others 90-day deadline to fix flaws revealed in ‘Vault 7’
WikiLeaks promise to give tech companies access to exploits in their systems before being made public…
Samsung officially unveils its Siri knockoff ‘Bixby’
Apple gave us Siri, Microsoft gave us Cortana, Amazon gave us Alexa, Google gave us, um, Google, and now Samsung…
