Macintosh market share has plummeted over 50% during Jobs' current tenure

"Apple's share of the worldwide PC market has tumbled from 4.6 percent in 1996, the year before Jobs returned, to just 2.2 percent in 2005... Gartner puts Apple's 1996 share at 4.6 percent, IDC at 5.1 percent. Market share in 2005 was 2.2 percent from Gartner and 2.3 percent from IDC... Apple's market share peaked at 15.8 percent in 1980...."

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The Smoldering Ruins of Centralia

There is a small town in Pennsylvania called Ashland where Route 61's northbound traffic is temporarily branched onto a short detour. Beyond it lies a town filled with overgrown streets, smoldering earth, and ominous warning signs. It is the remains of the borough of Centralia. Very intersting article to check out!

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Firefox "thanks" Microsoft for monopolistic tactics

"Over at ZDNet, Microsoft employee John Carroll makes the case that his company�s monopolistic tactics over the past decade have in fact benefited our industry, and cites Internet Explorer as an example. Without preinstalling Internet Explorer, he says, how would anyone download Firefox? How would open-source markets grow?"

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Microsoft's Worst Enemy: Microsoft

A detailed look by the NY Times into the problems of Microsoft with their recent setbacks with Vista and Office. The conclusion: The strategy of bundling software in the 90s has created too much baggage and bloat.

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The Man Who Could Fix Windows

Steven Sinofsky is a rare bird on Microsoft's Redmond campus -- a manager who actually delivers software on time. He's now been put in charge of Microsoft's Windows group, which has seen endless delays in the release of its new Vista operating system. -

Good Luck!

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Cable Companies: We'll Kill VoIP

Cable companies in the U.S. and Canada may be moving to squash one of the biggest threats to their future expansion --- VoIP. A Canadian cable company is already charging customers a premium for using competing VoIP products, and users are complaining that Comcast is purposely degrading the quality of Vonage connections.

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The Woman who Remebers EVERYTHING PERFECTLY

AJ can recall with astonishing accuracy what she was doing on that date and what day of the week it was. Because her case is the first of its kind, the researchers have proposed a name for her syndrome -- hyperthymestic syndrome

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