I was having a discussion yesterday with a fellow who’s been in the technology business quite a bit longer than myself.  Though I wasn’t yet an accomplished “I.T. Guy” when he sold his first computer in 1983 (I was finishing the first grade), I do share a knowledge of the am...

It's actually kind of amazing how much dough Microsoft has spent over the past little while in an attempt to polish its image in the minds of the general populace, and as if those "I'm proud to be a PC" and completely incomprehensible Gates / Seinfeld spots weren't enough, the Redmond-based outfit i...

Bill Gates has formally stepped down from the the Microsoft helm, to devote the remainder of his life to saving the world, and playing cribbage with Warren Buffet. I suppose it really doesn't matter much anymore. The eight thousand ton Redmond Gorilla can still throw it's flabby weight around, but t...