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Apple has begun airing another new "Get a Mac" ad, "Off The Air," on U.S. network and cable television. In the ad, "PC" is confronted by "Mac" and a Mac Genius who explain that dumping a Windows PC and switching to a Mac is easier than ever since when you buy a Mac, the Apple Store Mac Genius will transfer your files from your old PC to your new Mac for free. At this point, Apple makes one of their most brutally honest points ever, as "PC" responds: Oh, no, no, no, no... My frustrated users don't need to hear...

Wednesday, Microsoft introduced yet another way to represent a place: Photosynth. This sophisticated technology does a simple thing. It turns a bunch of overlapping photos into a 3-D panorama.

Microsoft offered Mac fans both good news and bad news on Thursday, and it all depends on which version of Office for Mac one is using. The software maker said that it plans on March 11 to deliver the first update to Office 2008 for Mac, delivering several key fixes. At the same time though, it has again pushed out the release of converters needed by users of Office 2004 to read documents saved in the new XML file formats used by Office 2007 for Windows. "The team is mobilized to get Office 2008 updates out as soon as possible,"...