It would be remiss of me after writing my earlier article about Microsoft’s lack of transparency not to refer to the latest posting on the blog of the Mac Business Unit (the department in Microsoft which writes software for the Mac). You’ll remember that I complained (and I wasn’t the only one) about the lack […]

If you’ve been using the Web at all during the last eighteen months or so, you will almost certainly have seen the proliferation of advertisements of ‘RSS’ or ‘feeds’. Although many people have attempted to explain what these things actually are and why they’re useful, I’m sorry to say that for the moment this feed […]

Microsoft claims to be ‘transparent’ in the brave new tech world with their blogs and videos revealing what’s going on inside the company. However, how transparent are they really when they refuse to answer direct questions posted on their blogs? How do they compare with smaller independent software developers when it comes to information about as-yet-unreleased products?