The Lost Decade
Why Steve Ballmer is no Bill Gates.
October 29, 2009
Last month Microsoft rolled out Windows 7 and opened the first of a chain of new retail stores. As usual with such announcements, there's been loads of hoopla and ginned-up excitement. But mostly people are just relieved. Windows 7 replaces Vista, one of the most disastrous tech products ever. It also caps the end of a decade in which Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates, stepped aside, and the company lost its edge. ( Click here to follow Daniel Lyons ).
(52)Prohibition Fighter
As a Harvard grad, former Princeton professor, and the son of a respected rabbi, Ethan Nadelmann might seem like an unlikely advocate for legalizing marijuana. But when you meet him, it all makes a lot of sense.
October 15, 2009
Will Apple Stumble With Snow Leopard?
The operating system upgrade costs only $29, but it's still probably not worth it.
August 28, 2009
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News/Week
- This one is for The Boss Joe Girardi on the Yankees’ 27th World Series titleNYDN
- We want our Taliban brothers and all others to come back and join with us President KarzaiAP
- It’s a detriment to democracy NY GOP official on conservatives rejecting their candidateNYT
- I did it with a lot of pain. Abdullah, on quitting the Afghan runoff NYT
- Somewhere these people have to be hidden out Clinton on Al Qaeda strongholds in PakistanAP