​Did the browser wars finally end in 2014?

By Ed Bott The modern browser wars began in earnest in 2004, when Mozilla Firefox challenged Internet Explorer’s complete and utter market dominance, successfully growing from zero to several hundred million users in less than five years. Google took over in 2008, introducing its Chrome browser, which caught up with Firefox by 2012. The fighting…

Microsoft will surprise in 2015

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols You may have noticed that I take a rather cynical view of Microsoft. But I think I am able to recognize when it does good things. As a matter of fact, I think the company made some smart moves in 2014, and it’s going to benefit from them in 2015. One…