Pushback & rumors of pushback: The chattering classes are at it again, this time hailing from Taiwan where DigiTimes Systems is claiming that despite expectations that Apple will launch Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5, in April of 2007, t'aint going to happen. The ubiquitous "Unnamed sources" say the release is being put off until October so that Apple can get Leopard to support Windows Vista through some Boot Camp integration. And the reason Apple might want to do this? To grab greater market share, natch. While this rumor remains unsubstantiated at this time, IBM and Adobe have made alterations to their schedules for Vista fine-tuning.

The Mouse is seeing Starz: It's spring and besides young people's fancies turning to thoughts of love, the lawsuits have started flowing. This time it's Starz scuffling with Disney over whether or not Disney has the right to sell its movies to Apple's iTunes and Wal-Mart, or whether this constitutes a breach of their previously exclusive contract. Can't we all just get along?

From the "Good to know ... sarcasm when you see it" file: Symantec's just-released Internet Security Threat Report makes the claim that Microsoft's Windows is currently the most secure operating system in the world. Upon release of aforementioned report the earth neither shook nor the sky cracked, and the report's authors, it's been noted, were also not immediately struck blind, however the measure used by the report - relative number of patches and patch-development time of the five major operating systems it monitored in the last six months of 2006 - has made believers out of us. We're going to forget this Mac|Life foolishness and get on an OS that really kinda-sorta keeps our stuff much, much more secure. Yes: and then we woke up.

And finally: Want to upgrade your fresh-out-the-box Apple TV? What? Already? The wags at Somethingawful.com have done just that using a Perian plug-in. Nice...