From time to time, a company comes out with a brilliant product: clean, sleek, easy to use, and down right sexy. However, something even more rare and interesting than this is the halo brand – a brand that can do no wrong and spits out brilliant products. One worth mentioning is Apple.

I don’t hate Microsoft or at least I don’t currently – that may change with the user experience that I’ve had as of late. I have plenty of friends that curse Microsoft and every move they make. And I am beginning to understand why. There are a multitude of reasons to hate microsoft – Vista, Zune, their corporate anti-trust issues to name just a couple…

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has banned his kids from using Google. It makes me wonder: does he really think the Microsoft-provided service is superior?

Microsoft is entertaining the thought of paying users to use their search engine