A former Microsoft insider on why Windows is failing: “Andrews was surprised to learn recently that Jim Allchin, Microsoft group vice president of platforms, didn’t realize that many users don’t buy new computers because of how hard it is to move all their data and applications. “He was totally oblivious to this,” Andrews says. “It’s… Continue reading

Dan Kennedy gets my vote for quote of the week: “If you were getting it then, you’d probably be getting it today, too. And if—like, I suspect, most of us—you weren’t getting any then, things probably wouldn’t be much different in 2004.”

Self-promotion department: My feature of Everyman is finally available for purchase as DVD from CustomFlix. Mark Shea likes it. So does FilmThreat.

John Allen writes in today’s Word from Rome: On May 27, Cardinal Bernard Law, the former archbishop of Boston who resigned over his handling of sex abuse allegations, was named Archpriest of the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. The nomination means that Law, 72, will now reside and work in Rome. I reported… Continue reading

And this man—who apparently has so much disdain for the nature of the American people—wanted to be elected to lead it? The Boston Herald on Al Gore.