Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

So, Microsoft executives have come to the point where they are sick and tired of that “pretty noisy competitor out there” (Apple, in case you’re puzzled as to who that is) kicking sand in the face of the Redmond giant. In response, they’re getting ready to come out and make us all aware of just […]

Apple’s update to the Mac OS X line might still be a year or so away, but information on this latest incarnation, called Snow Leopard, has started trickling out of Apple. While information is thin on the ground, some of what we know seems to suggest that the new OS might leave a fair number […]

Mozilla made a bit of a splash last week by releasing the long awaited Firefox 3.0 browser. Last Tuesday some 8 million copies of the new browser were downloaded in an event that Mozilla called Download Day (so far, as of the time of writing, there has been no official word from Mozilla as to […]

With Apple aggressively pushing Safari to Windows users who are running iTunes, and Mozilla and Opera releasing new versions of their popular browsers, it seems that the browser wars are hotting up once again. Is a second browser war going to be a good thing or a bad thing for web users? The current state […]

As I listened to, and then later watched, Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2008, I must have been caught up in the reality distortion field that Jobs is so expert at projecting. Within a matter of minutes, I went from feeling somewhat ambivalent about the iPhone 3G, Apple’s next-generation iPhone, to […]

Whenever I make a comment to a Windows fanboy (yep, they do exist) about the lack of information flowing out of Redmond about the next version of Windows (currently known as Windows 7), I usually get a story about how Microsoft has learned its lesson from Longhorn/Vista and has decided to take a “under-promise and […]

Is it just me or is Apple’s latest installment of Mac OS X causing users to suffer from quite severe bouts of Vistaitis? Before I go on, let’s look at what Vistaitis is: Vistaitis: The underlying cause of Vistaitis is unknown, but the disease characterizes itself by the sufferer displaying an intense dislike of new […]

It seems that Macs and iPods are selling very well, far better than any variety of hot cake that I’ve come across. How’s Apple managing to achieve this? Sure, some of this is down to Apple’s own marketing machine, which can conjure hilarious (if not somewhat distorted) ads comparing Windows to Mac OS X. But […]

Can you give Linux away? By that, I mean will we see a point where a significant number of PCs are sold not with a costly version of Windows or Mac OS installed on them, but with Linux instead? Increasingly, people are moving away from desktop applications and turning to Internet-based services for email and […]

Apple entered 2008 seemingly unable to put a foot wrong. It was riding high on the effects of the iPhone hype generated the year before. But 2008 has so far been very hard on the Cupertino giant. Its stock price has taken a nosedive, fears abound that the iPod market is saturated, unlocked iPhones represent […]