An article from C|Net News.com indicates that Apple's recently-updated iWork "suite" of Pages and Keynote has grabbed 17.4% of the Macintosh office applications market and almost 2.7% of the unit share of office suite sales worldwide, edging out Corel's WordPerfect Office.

So much for being pretty sure that Apple wasn't going to roll this one out today. According to everybody's press releases, reports, etc. and what I heard sitting in the Keynote (now available via QuickTime), Apple will begin shipping Macintoshes that are based on the Intel CPU architecture by June …

According to an article on GrokLaw, Trolltech (makers of the Qt toolkit) has announced that they no longer have SCO and Borland as investors. Their products may not be well know, but they are used as part of a number of handheld portable devices, including the Zaurus line from Sharp …

Coming "soon" in Longwait, er, Longhorn (the next version of Microsoft Windows--due in December,2006) will be Metro, Microsoft's free-licensed printing file format intended to go head-to- head with PDF and PostScript (the venerable, and completely free, de facto standards from Adobe), according to an article from ComputerWorld. I'm not …

Anyone who hasn't been under a rock for the last few weeks knows that Apple's releasing Tiger this Friday, with an event at each of their stores (starting with the new Birmingham, England store to kick the event off). Meanwhile, Microsoft is slowly readying Longhorn (the next major revision of …

Now, I'd be just about the first person in line to claim that people don't take security seriously enough on computers. However, Symantec may well have reached new heights in the use of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) to promote the sale of product. A number of articles, such as …

Looking for something nice in the morning? Here's a site that has a cool sequence of pictures of a hummingbird from the time the egg is laid until it takes flight.

Have you ever reinstalled your laptop or desktop machine because Windows just isn't happy with the world and you think it would be better to get a fresh start? Well, if you need to do that and don't want to wait in a hold-queue forever, you probably should take care …

OK, the source may be questionable, but at least one list looks reasonable. The top 10 party schools does include: 3 University of Wisconsin-Madison 5 Ohio University 6 Florida State University 9 University of Colorado-Boulder Of course, you have to question any party school list that omits SIU (Southern Illinois …

OK, I don't think that I'm going to offend any die-hard PC lovers with this pointer to the review from DivisionTwo, which has got to be the most clueless review of Apple's new Mac Mini. The review is written from the point of view of a PC user who is …

Wired has an article about Delicious Monster, an up-and-coming software company specializing in Mac software. Their first product Delicious Library, provides those of us who have a need to catalog our DVDs, books, CDs, etc with an easy way to do this. Unfortunately, I have barely used the software, but …

In an article from Groklaw, the author points to a recent apparent agreement between the State of Massachusetts and Microsoft about the use of Microsoft Office file formats and compliance with recent requirements from the state about open file format use. It appears that the state is pushing the company …

At CES this past week, Microsoft's Bill Gates had some trouble with his demos, including the wonderful Blue Screen of Death on an XBox demo and difficulties with the Media Edition of Windows. According to an article, Conan O'Brien was hired to warm up the crowd and provide some comic …

Tivo, the acknowledged leader in Personal Video Recorders (PVRs), has announced the availability of their new TivoToGo service. Of course, they've short-sightedly released it only for the PC (Windows 2000 and Windows XP), but if you have a Series 2 TiVo (people with DirecTV TiVos need not apply), you can …

And you should too! Seriously, if you are still using Internet Explorer, ask yourself "Why?" If you need it for some specific task, use it for that. Otherwise, take the advice of the Penn State IS department and use just about anything else. Popular alternatives are: Safari (MacOS X) Firefox …

eWeek has an article citing evidence from Larry Blunk (of Merit) that Microsoft is poised to assert intellectual property rights over internet protocols including TCP, IP v4 and IP v6, DNS and other essential protocols. The concerns were expressed in a note to the IETF's IAB (Internet Architecture Board) and …

Another company is reevaluating its Windows-based desktop requirements and is looking at Apple's MacOS X and Linux as alternatives. Of particular interest in the article from Cnet is the comment from the AT&T CIO stating "There's competition; there's choice now. Any CIO would not be doing due diligence if …

As if web sites didn't have enough to worry about, Microsoft has posted a lengthy document describing changes made in Windows XP SP2 and the effect on web pages. Sounds like some nice security fixes, though.

In another of what has been a steady stream of product delays by Microsoft, CNet is reporting that the 64-bit version of Windows XP will be delayed until the first half of next year, along with 64-bit versions of Windows 2003 server and the 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows …

The big financial news yesterday was Microsoft's announcement that they would be spending billions on a stock buy-back and dividend program. An additional piece of information from CNet this morning indicates that Bill Gates will be donating $3B of his booty to The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, his charity …