I am not, perhaps unfortunately, given to doing much social analysis. However, and I really don’t know why, I caught myself considering some of these issues while going through Engadget’s review of Google’s Cr-48 netbook, the first netbook sporting Google’s Chrome OS. By now it’s old news that Google’s OS is entirely based on...

It is all over the net today: Microsoft has just announced record profits this quarter, on the wings of large sales of Windows Vista.  I want to know: who is buying the thing???  Microsoft says it has sold 20 million copies of Vista.  Apart from OEM copies, I have not heard from a single individual who has paid up for a retail version (or even upgrade), much...