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The Windows 7 judge and jury: Your mom

Testers seemed to like Windows Vista before it bombed. Windows 7 has also garnered positive reviews. The natural question: How much faith should we put in early tests of Windows? Mary Jo Foley raises the question and notes that even Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is wary of...

Tags: Mossberg, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-08

Microsoft revisits 'Apple tax' ahead of Tax Day

Microsoft revisits 'Apple tax' ahead of Tax DayA more efficient strategypeople tend to ignore important thing. why not just point to what it is like to be a mac person? let me tell you, folks:FACT 1:a mac person is jealous, narrow minded, overly protective, arrogant, annoying, unreasonable, he will kill...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Desktops, About Time, OS/X, Mossberg, tax, fanboy, Apple Inc., Apple tax, PC, Microsoft Corp., Tax Day, PC ad

Discussion threads 2009-04-09

Mossberg laments lack of bargain Mac in his Fall Guide

Mossberg laments lack of bargain Mac in his Fall GuideActually the Mac and OSXare not of marketable quality to the low end consumer.Those with less to invest in a computer will tend to purchase a unit that delivers more for less; they will aquire a Windows machineon the other hand...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh, Mossberg, Fall Guide, computer, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-30

Mossberg: MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable

Mossberg: MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be ReliableWow, you know it is bad when...You know it is bad when one of your most fervent fanboys tells you to stay away from an Apple service![i]The planned iDisk File Sharing featured was delayed[/i]More vaporware from Apple. Sounds like once again, they've...

Tags: Desktops, Groupware, MobileMe, Mossberg

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Mossberg's review of iPhone 3G: Newer, Faster, Cheaper

The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg has been testing the iPhone 3G for a couple of weeks and today posted his review. As you'd expect, he loves the "between three and five times as fast" 3G networking, "wireless synchronization with corporate email" and the App Store which gives iPhone 3G...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, jason D. O'Grady, Mossberg, Personal Technology, Wireless

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Surprise! Mossberg's notebook buyers guide recommends Macs

Surprise! Mossberg's notebook buyers guide recommends MacsMakes sense as Macs ARE superior.Clearly, Apple is the best path for a new computer buyer. For upgraders like me, I'm stuck with the Windows POS environment (and I don't mean point of sale). This is only because WindowsXP is "good enough" for...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Operating systems, PC Market, Mac OS 10.5.1, Mossberg, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, notebook buyer, Microsoft Windows, notebook

Discussion threads 2008-04-10

Surprise! Mossberg's notebook buyers guide recommends Macs

The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg has changed the focus of his twice-a-year computer buyer's guides from desktop PCs to notebooks because portables have been outselling desktops since May 2004. In his recent installment (which focuses on "mainstream, nontechnical consumers" and not "heavy gamers, video producers or...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Macintosh, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Hardware, Mossberg, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-04-10

A real-world Vista challenge: Can this Sony Vaio be saved?

I’ve been reading Jeremy Toeman’s LIVEdigitally for ages. He’s got impressive digital media credentials (former VP of Sling Media, co-founder of Mediabolic) and geek cred (self-described “marketing guy” for Bug Labs, which won a CNET Best in Show award at CES this year). Jeremy has done an excellent...

Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Microsoft Windows Vista, Laptop Computer, Jeremy, Mossberg, 30-120, 10-60, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-03-02

Details surface on the MacBook Air

Details surface on the MacBook Air.. also remember..... that the MBA is not replacing Macbook or Macbook Pro. It's meant to be feather weight if Macbook is the light weight.I can't really agree on the "slower" processor but otherwise yeah sure there's some "compromises". Everyone should think which one is...

Tags: Notebooks, Engineering, Mossberg, Apple MacBook, MBA, MacBook Air, battery

Discussion threads 2008-01-25

Mossberg, Baig and Levy pass judgment on the MacBook Air - Beautiful, but a compromise

Mossberg, Baig and Levy pass judgment on the MacBook Air - Beautiful, but a compromiseIf onlythey had left in an ethernet and granted a removable battery. Everything else would have been fine. This is really to early for such a device. Wireless isn't yet prevelant enough to...

Tags: Notebooks, Wi-Fi, MacBook Air, Baig, Apple MacBook, Mossberg, wireless, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-24

Will your phone ever be free?

Walt Mossberg nails the consensus sentiment about wireless connectivity--we all want our phones freed from their carriers. Mossberg writes: It’s intolerable that the same country that produced all this has trapped its citizens in a backward, stifling system when it comes to the next great technology...

Tags: Phone, Cell Phone, Walt Mossberg, Mossberg, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-22

Mossberg reviews Ubuntu

Mossberg reviews UbuntuYou are missing a poll optionI'm sure that 75% of the readers here could find some way of blaming MS for it. Please add that as a poll option and let's see. :)RE: Mossberg reviews UbuntuI feel disappointed. It appears that Dell has let us down.There is however...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, Dell Computer Corp., Mossberg, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

Mossberg says Flash coming to the iPhone

Mossberg says Flash coming to the iPhoneVideo on WebsitesI have played Quicktime videos and quicktime streaming on the iphone while playing with it on the store. It's ashame more sites don't use Quicktime..Windows Mobile has Flash in IEKind of funny... but windows mobile and IE play videos and use flash.hmmm...

Tags: Corporate communications, Operating systems, Apple iPhone, iphone, Microsoft Windows, Mossberg, Microsoft Windows Mobile

Discussion threads 2007-07-05

Mossberg says Flash coming to the iPhone

An interesting tidbit today in Walt Mossberg's new column, Questions about Apple's iPhone. In the article he runs down a series of questions about the iPhone including:Question: If the iPhone’s Web browser is so good, why can’t it play video on Web sites I visit?At launch, the iPhone version of...

Tags: iPhone, Flash, Adobe

Blog posts 2007-07-05

D5: Steve Jobs evangelizes the iPhone and Apple TV

Steve Jobs took the stage following News Corp. President Peter Chernin for an interview with Walt Mossberg at the D conference. He was if full product evangelist, selling mode, describing the magic Apple's products. He attributed Apple's success to "software wrapped in really wonderful hardware. The software [on...

Tags: Apple, D5, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-30

D5: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the hot seat

For the opening session at the D conference this morning, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that his company was a lot more nimble today than when it had 30 people. He was responding to a question from conference co-host Walt Mossberg how the company deals with huge scale of the...

Tags: D5, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Mossberg condemns "craplets" preinstalled on new PCs

Mossberg condemns "craplets" preinstalled on new PCsI would recommend you also tryOpenSuSE 10.2 and PCLinuxOS. Both are excellent, although I will admit, PCLinuxOS is far easier to set up and maintain than OpenSuSE and I have been a SuSE guy for several years! ]:)Removing the crapwareI wonder if the PC...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, crapware, new-PC, PC, Mossberg

Discussion threads 2007-04-13

Mossberg condemns "craplets" preinstalled on new PCs

Weve all put up with what my good friend and fellow Tablet PC MVP Warner Crocker has dubbed "crapware" – the pre-bundled software loaded onto new PCs by OEMs – for a long time. Those of us who buy new PCs on a frequent basis have come up with strategies...

Tags: Windows, Software

Blog posts 2007-04-12

WSJ's Walt Mossberg likes Office 2007

WSJ's Walt Mossberg likes Office 2007Walt's right, but he's the Fox News of computing?Never known Mossberg to be fair or balanced in any sense, as I've read him trash good programs over the years and as the previous reader noted, reactively praise all things apple. I have no respect for...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Wall Street Journal, Walt, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007, Mossberg, Walt Mossberg

Discussion threads 2007-01-03

Additional Resources

Did 'reporters' sink Vista?

Yes. They made it much worse.There were early driver problems, many devices NEVER got updated for Vista, the fit and finish was and is rough, the extra security was a nag (but should have been DEFENDED and EXPLAINED by the tech pros, instead of being ridiculed), business was right to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-19