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  • Do penguins eat apples?

    Once upon a time, Apple dreamed of killing giants. Today, that hope belongs to a new, open-source generation.
    By Andrew Leonard September 28, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Should Warren Beatty be our next president? Plus: Savaging E.B. White; ascent from a Windows hell.
    Letters to the Editor September 9, 1999

  • Briefing for a descent into computer hell

    The chilling story of a deadline-addled writer's disintegration triggered by the seven words no keyboard jockey wants to hear.
    By Steve Burgess September 1, 1999

  • Mindcraft: The final chapter

    NT outperforms Linux on every test at a rematch of the operating system trials.
    By Andrew Leonard June 26, 1999

  • Linux and Microsoft -- together at last

    A new round of benchmark tests pits free-software hackers against the gang from Redmond in a race for operating-system supremacy.
    By Andrew Leonard June 16, 1999

  • Windows 98 SE -- the phantom upgrade

    Microsoft tiptoes out with a new "Second Edition" of its operating system.
    By Scott Rosenberg June 11, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Sounding off on shooters and shrinks; Linux fans shouldn't trust Mindcraft.
    Letters to the Editor May 13, 1999

  • Rematch at the NT vs. Linux corral

    Testing lab invites another round of performance testing -- but Linux gurus charge the shootout is still rigged.
    By Andrew Leonard May 6, 1999

  • Log: Brief reports and tidbits from the info-sphere

    Write free software -- and write it off your tax bill?
    By Salon Tech Writers December 15, 1998

  • Car talk

    Microsoft puts Windows on a diet so it can fit in your car radio -- and hold a conversation. A review of the Microsoft/Clarion AutoPC.
    By Chip Brookshaw December 8, 1998

  • 21st Log: His was the mouse that roared

    By Andrew Leonard December 1, 1998

  • Let's Get This Straight:Windows on the wane?

    Open source and information appliances squeeze the PC from both sides.
    By Scott Rosenberg November 19, 1998

  • Let's Get This Straight: See you in court

    As the Microsoft trial begins, forget the browser war and follow the money.
    By Scott Rosenberg October 16, 1998

  • User-friendly?

    Don't throw away Windows yet, a test of three approaches to installing Linux suggests.
    By Andrew Leonard June 26, 1998

  • Let's Get This Straight: Talkin' 'bout a revolution

    Free the Windows source code? Pandemonium ensues as readers talk back.
    By Scott Rosenberg May 27, 1998

  • The dumbing-down of programming

    Part Two: Returning to the source. Once knowledge disappears into code, how do we retrieve it?
    By Ellen Ullman May 13, 1998

  • The dumbing-down of programming

    Rebelling against Microsoft and its wizards, an engineer rediscovers the joys of difficult computing. First of two parts.
    By Ellen Ullman May 12, 1998

  • Let's Get This Straight: Free the Windows source code?

    Let's Get This Straight: By Scott Rosenberg. Why Microsoft should think about freeing the source code to Windows.
    By Scott Rosenberg April 22, 1998

  • 21st: Microsoft spins

    Let's Get This Straight: Scott Rosenberg on Microsoft's agreement with Justice, Netscape's distribution of its source code and a dubious e-mail from Wired.
    By Scott Rosenberg January 23, 1998

  • 21st: Microsoft to world: Remove our browser and your system will crash.

    Let's Get This Straight: By Scott Rosenberg. Microsoft to world: Remove our browser and your system will crash.
    By Scott Rosenberg December 19, 1997

  • 21st: 21st Briefing

    Scott Rosenberg on the temporary order issued by a federal judge on 12/11/97, forbidding Microsoft to force computer manufacturers to included Internet Explorer whenever they install Windows 95 on a new computer
    By Scott Rosenberg December 12, 1997

  • Newsreal: Muddling through

    Steve Jobs' latest spin on the "new" Apple might keep the troops in line, but can the company ever really advance again?
    By Steve Michel November 12, 1997

  • 21st: Microsoft to feds: Hands off my operating system!

    Contrary to Bill Gates' propaganda, users aren't clamoring for the integration of browsers and operating systems. But the government's clumsy intervention won't slove the problem.
    By Scott Rosenberg September 30, 1997

  • Do the Windows Open?

    Charles Taylor reviews "Do The Windows Open" By Julie Hecht.
    By Charles Taylor January 24, 1997
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