Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’

If you have an external hard drive or USB flash drive that you’d like to use on both Macs and Windows PCs, choosing the right file system to format the drive can be confusing. Learn a few ways to make your drive Mac and PC friendly. Need to access or transfer files…

Although Apple’s Mac computers are selling in record numbers, there is still a ton of misinformation being spread about them. You have to believe Mac sales would skyrocket even more if the average person figured out those myths…

Apple and Microsoft are currently engaged in an escalating exchange of barbs with their respective TV ad campaigns. Although it’s getting a lot of attention now, Apple has been bashing PCs in their commercials for decades. It’s really interesting to…

Everyone’s used to hearing Apple addicts ramble about how much better Macs are than Windows-based PCs, but what’s really the big deal? What about them is so great and worth the (comparatively) large investment? A few months ago…

Every so often a new wave of articles and message board threads pop up online about Apple’s refusal to offer lower-priced Mac computers, thereby supposedly hurting their chances for major marketshare gains. PC makers like Dell and…

Users who run Windows in a virtual machine via Parallels for Mac software don’t get all the speed of a native installation (such as Boot Camp), but there are a couple ways to improve performance. When I’m running Windows XP…

Microsoft attempted to fire back at Apple’s “Get a Mac” television campaign with their “I’m a PC” ads, but have again been put in their place by the latest round of the Mac-maker’s commercials. Since mid-2006, the “Get a Mac” series…

Microsoft’s new ad campaign featuring the (not at all) talented Bill Gates and (really brilliantly) talented Jerry Seinfeld just makes me ask “Why?” Just to make this clear upfront, I am not a blind Microsoft basher. I used their products for nearly…