Christopher Hitchens, superb as always: “Yes, but what about the ticking bomb? Listen: There’s always going to be a ticking bomb somewhere. Some of these will go off, and it’s just as likely to be in my part of Washington, D.C., as anywhere else. But we shall be fighting a war against jihad for decades… Continue reading

“A recent report on media player market share sales for client and enterprise applications by research firm Frost & Sullivan showed Apple moving into second position with 36.8% of the market. That puts Apple above Real Media, which controls 24.9% and nipping at the heels of Microsoft and its share of 38.2%. Frost & Sullivan… Continue reading

“Four-fifths of spam now emanates from computers contaminated with Trojan horse infections, according to a study by network management firm Sandvine out this week. Trojans and worms with backdoor components such as Migmaf and SoBig have turned infected Windows PCs into drones in vast networks of compromised zombie PCs.” Read more.

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.”