Mac OS X.  Perhaps the gold standard of Apple desktop operating systems since 2001 (didn’t want Steve Ballmer calling me out!)  has gone through many iterations over the last ten years. While many of you have recently made the upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion I am here to tell you get your Mighty Mouse [...]

In one of my weekly circles a group of otherwise normal 20 and 30 year olds get together, have some beers and shoot the shit. The occupations range from contractor to attorney and everything in between.  The conversations range from real estate, cars, politics and the metric system. Last night, the topic was android.  At [...]

No, Microsoft isn’t on a hiring freeze (that I know of).  They also didn’t call HP in search of a business plan that DOESN’T involve computers. Steve Ballmer at recent press conference dissed Google lovers by saying “You don’t have to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone, but you do to use an [...]

Microsoft, the king of the workplace.  Its tough to find a boring old cube farm not running some version of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system. Outside the office (pun intended) Microsoft has lost its luster.  More and more hipster homes are running OS X.  Outside buildings, its hard to find a device running a Microsoft [...]

Per my previous post ( http://www.styrofoamsoup.com/tech/petition-palm-hp/ ) I have written to Palm (HP): Meg Whitman or current CEO of Hewlett-Packard Corp.: I am writing to you today as a long time customer of both HP  personal computers and Palm handheld devices.  As a customer I am very concerned about the corporate direction of your company.  I [...]