TechCrunch has a guest post by Jon Bach, who apparently travels on his own straight-talk express: "Microsoft has created a real mess in the industry with Windows Vista. On its release in January 2007, most major manufacturers dropped Windows XP from their products, only to add it back months later at the demand of their customers." more ›

We can't remember now if it was on Lie to Me or The Mentalist, but on one of them, they mentioned that an indication that someone's lying (or doesn't have confidence in what they're saying) is when they repeat a question verbatim. That's why we smiled a little reading this quote from Microsoft's Gavriella Schuster on TechFlash: "One of the things customers have been asking me is, 'If I make an investment in Windows Vista today, is it a throwaway investment?' And the answer is no. It's not a throwaway investment." more ›