Jun 27, 2021 | Microsoft, updates, Windows10, Windows11
Microsoft will release Windows 11 later this year. It is an incremental upgrade to Windows 10, with a facelift so it looks nice and a few small changes that mostly appear to be for the better. I want to talk about Windows 11 a little bit – first to give you some...
Jul 15, 2020 | Apple, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, Outlook, updates, Windows10
If you’re an Outlook user, there’s a good chance that the program crashed when you tried to start it yesterday (Wednesday, July 15, 2020). Microsoft uses the word “Outlook” to describe many different things, so let’s be precise. This was...
Apr 14, 2019 | Microsoft, updates, Windows10
Once upon a time, O my children, Microsoft had a predictable date for installing updates to Windows, and lo, we called it “Patch Tuesday.” Once a month (well, sometimes twice), we would wake up on Wednesday morning and our computers would have restarted, and we would...
Apr 14, 2019 | Microsoft, updates, Windows10
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Feb 3, 2019 | computers, updates, Windows tips, Windows10, Windows7
Windows 7 was released almost ten years ago. Those are human years; in technology years that is roughly the length of the Mesozoic era, when dinosaurs ruled the earth. There’s no crisis. You’re not required to throw away your Windows 7 computers tomorrow. I understand...
Nov 15, 2018 | LastPass, Microsoft, updates, Windows tips, Windows10
Your Windows 10 computer is going to install a major update soon. Microsoft just began rolling out the “Windows 10 October 2018 Update,” bringing Windows 10 to version 1809. The version number – 1809 – is a code for the year and month of the update. So the version...
