You’ve heard the adage “if you give someone a fish you feed him for a day, but if you teach them how to fish then you feed them forever.” Around here we call that the “Fishing Rods versus Fish ‘Sammiches’” paradox. I’ve…

More than two months after the government accused the Microsoft Corp. of being a monopoly and squelching competition, the company issued its formal response yesterday, challenging the government’s findings. The response comes less than a week after the company named Steve Ballmer…