I described in December that Market Share for Apple would hit 9.5% at the end of December and break 10% in January. So far Apple exceeded expectations and reached 9.63% in December. That’s a 0.76% gain of the operating system market in one month!

Look for January to carry another increase and for…

After converting my MacBook Pro in to a Windows developer dream, I wanted to have the same experience on a more portable, commodity hardware unit. Virtualizing Windows within Windows with VMware Server is something I’m familiar with. It’s something many Windows developers may prefer (and I recommend if you’re…

Red Planet

I got to catch up with the Windows 2008 Server ads today. The first thing that came to mind was AMEE from Red Planet. That was a scary malfunctioning robot…

Microsoft’s Win2k8 ad, Crouching Robot

As an IT professional, will you nickname Win2k8 ‘AMEE’?

After reading this great, hilarious, post on upgrading to XP (yes, you read that right – this isn’t a Vista upgrade), I decided to take the plunge. I’ve been punished long enough for using Vista Ultimate in my VMware environment and portable laptop. It’s been a nice OS, but performance is in…

Developing PC applications on the Mac is great, contrary to what some believe. I too was once in the ‘build-on-the-platform-you-target’ camp. Forget that horse-puckie and get efficient:

1. Get VMware Fusion: http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/.
2. Make sure you’ve got XCode. This will be sixty percent of your development environment and you’ll be coding in OS X.

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