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Yes, It’s the Network

February 27th, 2008

I’m pleased to announce that The Mac Night Owl has partnered with Dennis Sellers and Macsimum News to form a new media partnership. The full story is described in an article Dennis posted Wednesday morning. Basically, what this means is that we will work together not just on providing cutting-edge content to a wider audience, but we’ll be able to offer an expanded variety of advertising packages specially tailored to specific needs. We hope this is but the first of many ongoing projects Dennis and I will be involved in.

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Mac OS 10.4.10: The Worst System Update Ever?

July 23rd, 2007

The other day, I was interviewing MacFixIt’s Ben Wilson for one of his periodic slots on The Tech Night Owl LIVE. During the conversation, he remarked that reader surveys had shown that the recent 10.4.10 update for Tiger was the most troublesome in recent memory.

This surprised me, largely because I never seem to have any of the problems that other people seem to encounter with regularly. I don’t know that I’m necessarily doing anything different, other than to be a little cautious about third-party system toys, or maybe I’ve just been lucky, and now things will change for the worse because I’ve mentioned them here.

While troubleshooting forums might be heavily weighted towards people with problems, I accept Ben’s comments as entirely accurate. Clearly there’s a disconnect between my experiences and those of others in our audience.

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The Leopard Report: Apple’s Golden Opportunity?

February 13th, 2007

Although the sales figures aren’t quite in yet, there’s a general feeling that Windows Vista isn’t really doing quite as well as Microsoft hoped, at least as far as early adopters are concerned. Unlike the arrival of Windows 95 to the chords of “Start Me Up” from The Rolling Stones, you didn’t have all that many people standing in line for the Vista’s debut in the store shelves.

Of course, after five years, maybe people are just a little too tired and worn out over the whole affair. Even Microsoft’ s promotional campaign doesn’t seem to have as much authority as in the past. In fact, when I last examined their Web site, Exchange Server 2007 was getting the lion’s share of attention, and Windows Vista was consigned to some tiny headlines; it may have changed by the time you hit the site. So much for the operating system that dominates the planet.

I’m not saying, of course, that Microsoft is setting aside Vista as a failure. It won’t be, even if it takes the sale of new PCs to make it credible.

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