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What to expect in the next Windows: The iPhone
Microsoft posts a demo of its new operating system, which promises a revolutionary touch-enabled interface.
Let's fight: Popular Mechanics says Macs beat PCs in style and speed
Why does Windows take minutes to start up and shut down?
Why Apple fans hate tech reporters
On hot-button issues -- the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the Mac-PC divide -- we're quick to see bias in even the most objective news.
Tracking Apple's Leopard: It's pretty fast
A sales update on the new Mac OS.
Microsoft kills Vista's anti-piracy kill switch
No longer will the operating system switch to "reduced functionality mode" if it thinks you're running a stolen version.
Microsoft on Mac gains: Apple's not even close
Executives say that soon Windows will be on 1 billion computers.
How Microsoft crushed Linux's Chinese rebellion
The story starts with a Fortune magazine article, and ends in the second century B.C.
Software is hard
Salon's Scott Rosenberg explains why even small-scale programming projects can take years to complete, one programmer is often better than two, and the meaning of "Rosenberg's Law."
Why software still stinks
Programming must change -- but how? At a reunion of coding pioneers, answers abound.
The long road to Longhorn
Who knows what Microsoft's whiz-bang new Windows will look like by the time it's ready, in 2006 or beyond? In the meantime, the bloggers of Redmond will provide progress reports.
Microsoft wants your cellphone
The software king has big plans for making the world of mobile phones safe for Windows. Can phone makers, and a little Norwegian company called Opera, stop the onslaught?
Who needs Napster when you have Windows?
A new program called Share Sniffer makes file trading easier than ever before -- and more dangerous.
Mac OS X: As Windows as you wanna be
By Janelle Brown
Beware of geeks bearing gifts
By Simson Garfinkel
Beware of geeks bearing gifts
Microsoft may offer you a break on Windows Me, but that doesn't mean the upgrade won't cost you.
Chapter 1: Boot Time
Part 1: Linus Torvalds at the Villa Montalvo
Why Bill stepped down
He wants to run for president -- and a cornucopia of other "top 10" reasons from our e-mailbag.
Scoop: Why Bill Gates stepped down
Ten reasons why the Microsoft founder is handing off the CEO torch.
Naked eye
A prudish hacker caught me surfing porn and turned the image on my monitor, and my world, upside down.
How the Web was almost won
Just how close did we come to a Net ruled by Microsoft? The "server wars" show a grim counterpart to the browser wars.
Why Microsoft really does suck
All the warm, fuzzy feelings evoked by my gorgeous new laptop went up in smoke when I discovered the evil that lurked inside.
Stoking the Net's growth
Industry veteran Ellen Hancock talks about Windows NT, glass ceilings -- and how her company, Exodus, keeps its vast server farms humming.
Linux at the bat
Red Hat's Marc Ewing steps up to the plate against Microsoft in the billion-dollar free-software ballgame.
Do penguins eat apples?
Once upon a time, Apple dreamed of killing giants. Today, that hope belongs to a new, open-source generation.
Letters to the Editor
Should Warren Beatty be our next president? Plus: Savaging E.B. White; ascent from a Windows hell.
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