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Apple said its operating system upgrade Leopard won’t be released in June as planned.
Why? The iPhone has absorbed Apple’s resources as it certifies it with AT&T/Cingular so it can ship in late June.
A Leopard delay wasn’t totally unexpected. Word about a potential delay surfaced last month. At the time, the reason for the delay was [...]

Switching to a Mac infrastructure may sound like an expensive proposition for a small-business owner. However, some businesses who have made the change say they made the right choice. The cost savings on security and ease-of-use quickly paid off incurred expenses, they said. Relearning some tasks that operate differently on a Mac may be a [...]

“Walt Mossberg says his Vista startup experience was pretty horrid because of the tons of ads and other things that OEMs load onto the OS. They do that to try to make a few extra bucks on each machine sold. Microsoft can’t stop them because the DOJ made it impossible to push around the OEMs [...]

Are you hesitant to switch to a Macintosh because you don’t want to miss your favorite Windows applications? Now you have no excuses, with a new version of Parallels virtualization software offering better ease of use and new features.
With Parallels, Intel processor Mac computers can run Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, or other operating systems [...]

March 09, 2007 (Computerworld) — Not too long ago, ad agencies, design firms and other creative companies were about the only businesses that widely deployed Macintosh computers to their employees. But for a number of reasons, word of the benefits of Apple Inc. hardware — and software — on enterprise desktops is now spreading. That [...]

Wow. Now the tech press is on a roll about security issues with Windows Vista. They are all over it. Even Symantec’s CEO now says he wouldn’t upgrade to Vista at this time.
I had a decision to make recently. Upgrade my pleasant-to-use Compaq laptop and deal with other internal upgrade issues to effectively use Windows [...]