By Thurrott, Paul, 03/12/2010
An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including a rainy week in Redmond, the Apple iPad preorder begins, Windows Phone 7 device resolution support, Microsoft loses another Word appeal, Xbox 360 on top of the world, and so much more ......
By Thurrott, Paul, 03/11/2010
Microsoft's Bing online search service gained usage share in the US for the ninth straight month in February, according to market researchers at Hitwise and comScore. Google still dominates the market, with about 68 percent of all searches. But Bing now accounts for over 10 percent of searches....
By Thurrott, Paul, 03/10/2010
Former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz this week said he understands how Google must feel in the wake of Apple's patent-infringement lawsuit against Android phone maker HTC....
By Thurrott, Paul, 03/09/2010
Responding to critics who claimed that the new browser ballot screen that it delivered to Windows XP, Vista, and 7 users in the EU was flawed, Microsoft last week quietly changed the code to be truly random....
By Thurrott, Paul, 03/08/2010
Almost two months after promising to ship its iPad tablet device in the United States in March, Apple did what Apple so often does: It slipped on a ship-date promise. Now, the iPad will start shipping in April instead, and customers who had hoped to preorder the device have to wait until March 12. ...