MICROSOFT WINDOWS HOME SERVER BETA 2

Feb 16, 2007 | computers, hardware, Home_Server, Microsoft, network

Here’s a review of a beta release of Microsoft Windows Home Server, which continues to look like a genuinely exciting advance for home computing. Here are my earlier thoughts on the preview at the Consumer Electronics show last month.When it is final, most of us...

WINDOWS HOME SERVER

Jan 7, 2007 | computers, hardware, Home_Server, Microsoft

Microsoft is taking the wraps off “Windows Home Server” today at a trade show. The first details are just coming out from people freed from their nondisclosure agreements. Here’s Microsoft’s first public web site for Home Server. I’m...

WIDESCREEN MONITORS

Dec 1, 2006 | hardware

Televisions are switching to widescreen displays, 16:9 aspect ratios like a movie screen instead of the more square 4:3 aspect ratio. Computer monitors are following the same path; I’m now recommending 20″ widescreen monitors for anyone buying a new...

FLIMSY TECHNOLOGY

Nov 29, 2006 | hardware

I frequently rant about the declining quality of hardware and software. Here’s an article blaming manufacturers: “Now computers are fast enough, mobile phones are small enough and digital music players have enough memory. Manufacturers now have a problem....

GADGET SLOWDOWN

Nov 15, 2006 | audio, hardware

It briefly looked as if we would be awash in a sea of new gadgets for the holidays, but the flood turned into a trickle – and a pretty disappointing trickle, too. Two missteps stand out.Microsoft released its handheld audio player, the Zune, to reviews that were...

APPLE IPOD SERVICE

Oct 30, 2006 | Apple, audio, hardware

When my iPod stopped working correctly, I did all the troubleshooting I could before turning to Apple for support.The experience was brilliant. Apple has a well-designed web site to answer support questions and to begin the return process. Two days after reporting the...