Oct 9, 2017 | Android, Apple, Microsoft, Office, Windows 10 S, Windows10
Microsoft has a modern platform for apps that would make your computer safer, more reliable, and perform better. All that’s needed is for you to give up everything that you do on your Windows computer today and start over again with new programs from the Windows Store...
Oct 2, 2017 | Microsoft, photos, Windows 10 S, Windows10
Microsoft believes that Windows can return to its position at the center of our technology world if all of us begin to use the Windows Store to install programs. It is a flawed, desperate vision. Windows is going through a slow, long-term decline. The Windows Store...
Aug 13, 2017 | Azure, business, Microsoft, Office 365, Skype, Windows 10 S, Windows10
Every month at Microsoft, a team of highly paid professionals writes words on slips of paper. They always include “Microsoft,” “Windows,” “Office,” “365,” “Pro,” “Home,” “Business,” “Enterprise,” “Azure,” “Surface,” and “Online.” They put the slips of paper into a hat...
May 8, 2017 | Chrome, Chromebook, computers, Dell, Google, HP, laptops, Lenovo, Microsoft, shopping, Surface, Windows 10 S, Windows10
Next month Microsoft will begin selling Surface Laptops, elegant and sexy, Microsoft’s first Surface devices with a traditional clamshell design. You’ll be tempted to buy one, but in the end you won’t. Almost no one will buy them. Microsoft will sell some Surface...
May 4, 2017 | Chrome, Chromebook, Google, Google Drive, laptops, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, Surface, Windows 10 S, Windows10
Microsoft made two big announcements this week at an education-themed press event. They’re related in a couple of ways. One common element is that Microsoft will fail at both of the new ventures it announced. I think each one is deeply flawed. The two announcements:...
Apr 23, 2017 | Android, Apple, Chrome, Chromebook, Google, Google Drive, IE, laptops, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, Surface, web_services, Windows 10 S, Windows10
On May 2 Microsoft will announce a new generation of Windows for low-cost computers targeted at education. Information has leaked about some parts of that announcement and tech journalists are speculating about what it might mean. There is one thing that has not been...