Windows XP has been around for the last 6 years. In this long time it has not seen many significant changes. XP Service packs 1 and 2 provided a few additional features and benefits and made lives of users and administrators much easier. With the advent of Service Pack 3, Windows XP will be able [...]

Microsoft FrontPage had reined for several years as the primary website authoring tool in Microsoft’s portfolio. But FrontPage has been replaced with Expression Web which is geared towards the general population and Sharepoint Designer which is aimed at professional corporate web-developers. On a recent project I had the misfortune of choosing between the 2 products. [...]

Apple has been taking shots at Vista even before it arrived on the consumer market. Lately Vista has been receiving some bad publicity and Apple capitalized on every opportunity it got. The most recent one is a new Apple vs Vista ad seen on Cnet. The flash based ad is too big to fit below [...]

Server virtualization has been isolated from the mainstream IT and Datacenter vendors for quite a while. In fact Vmware’s enormous success can be attributed to the lack of competition from any of the top tier software vendors. Only after Vmware captured majority of the market share that Citrix and Microsoft started scrambling to get in [...]