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Talk about success: in just four short months, Microsoft has managed to sell an astounding 90 million copies of Windows 7, its latest operating system.
Microsoft CFO, Peter Klein, announced this astonishing figure at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, & Telecom Conference earlier this week in San Francisco noting the operating system’s “terrific momentum.”
In case you’re [...]

MacHeist is now offering a bundle of five different apps for Mac OS X for only $19.99; purchasing each application separately would normally cost over $260. Users will have another six days to take advantage of this deal.
If you purchase the bundle, you’ll receive MacJournal, RipIt, Clips, CoverScout, Flow. If enough people order, you’ll also get copies of Tales of Monkey [...]

Although nothing’s been confirmed just yet, many users believe (after being subjected to numerous teasers) that Steam is coming to Mac.  Since very few people, Mac users include, actually know what Steam is, I’m going to break it down for you.
Steam is the premiere Windows client for gaming.  With Steam, users are able to network [...]

Yesterday at Macworld, Microsoft announced its newest edition of its popular Office for Mac suite: Office for Mac 2011.  Users can expect a slough of changes in Office for Mac 2011 including the death of Entourage as an email client, as well as many new user-friendly features that make the software suite more “Mac-like”, and [...]

The fact that many technology users have been hesitant to upgrade their PCS to Windows 7 hasn’t hampered the Windows 8 rumor mill– it’s running strong as ever!
Today, we heard rumors that Windows 8, or Windows.next as the devs are calling it, is supposed to be like nothing Microsoft has ever made before… If [...]

Taking a similar approach to Gmail (who nixed support of IE6), Firefox announced today that they will no longer support versions of Mac OSX older than 10.5 (so Tiger 10.4 and below).  This isn’t the show-stopping blow that Gmail gave IE6 a few weeks ago, since this announcement’s taking place on a smaller stage– but, [...]

Today, NVIDIA announced a new software application, Optimus. The software boasts the ability to automatically switch between a computer’s integrated and discrete graphics cards (GPUs).
Although GPU switching is nothing new , the process of automating the switch is.  Right now, the unibody Macbook Pros are able to switch between an integrated NVIDIA 9400m GPU and a discrete 9600m GPU [...]

This is my take on Apple’s iPad:
Although I’m a PC gamer, I’ve had Apple computers in the past (the 17” MacBook Pro), so just a heads up: this article isn’t biased.
So, let’s recap: yesterday Apple released the iPad. It’s meant to be a tablet computer, but is it really? From Steve Job’s presentation, we see [...]

At this point, you’ve probably heard of the Apple iPad.  You’ve probably formed an opinion about it.  If you’re like me, you probably think it was overhyped, and compared to the rumors, it’s very, very underwhelming.
So, let’s go over the things the iPad can do and what’s new.  It will work with all the iPhone apps that [...]

Just a few hours ago, Terry McGraw, the CEO of textbook giant McGraw-Hill, confirmed the existence of an Apple Tablet.
On a CNBC show, McGraw not only verified the tablet, but also validated the claim that the tablet’s going to be released tomorrow.
Catch the video, transcript, and my interpretation (because we know that’s exactly what you want) after [...]

More from the rumor mill, Apple Fanboys!
Over the past several months, a number of rumors have indicated that Apple plans to market its new tablet/slate computer as a “large iPod/iPhone touchscreen multimedia device.”
Today, the New York Times broke a story that basically belies everything we’ve heard thus far. According to The Times, Apple has been [...]