David Morgenstern

SAN FRANCISCO—The buzz is swelling in anticipation of consumer-side announcements from Steve Jobs’ keynote address that will kick off the annual Macworld Expo here. Will it be the iPod phone or the iTV digital media server (name change is also expected)? Only Jobs and a select cadre of Apple execs know for sure. However, after […]

Is the world counting the minutes for the release of Vista on a cold day in January? Despite the increasing din from Microsoft’s hype machine and upbeat notes from Windows evangelists, managers in enterprise and small business see a transition far in the future. But how far? It could be very, very far. At the […]

Creating bigger—that is, higher-capacity—hard disks is usually the story of the industry, particularly in this year commemorating the invention of rotating storage. And with demand reportedly growing to hold collections of compliance data in the enterprise—not to mention the consumer segment—the search for bigger drives is seen as the natural order of the technology. Despite […]

Since its beginnings, the Mac has been discounted—saddled with the claim that there’s a lack of native software when compared to the X86 PC platform. Now, Apple and a growing number of virtualization vendors are pitching Windows compatibility solutions to the Mac masses. The rub? Most Mac users won’t need any of these Windows programs. […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—While busy celebrating the 50th anniversary of the invention of the hard disk drive, storage makers are looking toward the future at Diskcon USA. While technological progress looks steady for the short term, getting through the next 50 years may be a tougher climb, warned disk drive industry executives here. This annual conference […]

Little is known for sure what Steve Jobs will reveal to the throng of coders at Apple Computer’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Aug. 7. However, it’s a good bet that the current more-general debate between Macs and Windows platforms—the longtime battleground for PC and Mac partisans—will quickly move to a specific fight between Mac OS […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Although the foundation of the next-generation Internet, IPv6, is gaining momentum in South Asia and receiving solid support in Windows Vista, enterprise IT managers based in the United States appear to be in little hurry to adopt the standard. Such was the conclusion of a debate held here on June 14 at the Burton […]