Jun 19, 2016 | Microsoft, Office 365, OneDrive, web_services, Windows tips, Windows10
(2020/10/12 – click here for an updated, shorter version of this article.) “I read your article about personal Microsoft accounts and business Office 365 accounts,” my wife said last week. “Well, I read parts of it. It was . . . dense.” Dense? My article was a...
Jun 16, 2016 | Azure, domains, mail, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, photos, Skype, web_services, Windows10
(2020/10/08 – click here for an updated, shorter, less snarky version of this article.) Microsoft has two different types of accounts. Many of you have credentials – an email address and password – for both of them. Years of marketing and branding blunders have...
Jun 8, 2016 | Android, Apple, Google, LastPass, Microsoft, security, web_services, Windows10
We’re drowning in passwords. Slowly – slowly! – we are moving out of the Age Of Passwords. Better alternatives exist. Apple has integrated fingerprints deeply into iOS and fingerprint readers are turning up on many Android phones. Microsoft has built Windows Hello...
Jun 1, 2016 | security, Windows tips, Windows10
Everything is simple once you know how to do it. Here’s a setting that’s been moved to a different place in Windows 10. It’s not necessary to check this setting or change it very often but it drove me crazy that I couldn’t figure out how to make this change easily....
May 30, 2016 | IE, Outlook, Windows tips, Windows10
Has your computer been upgraded to Windows 10? Do you have a new computer? This is the guide you need – how to configure your Windows 10 computer to smooth out its rough edges and make the most of its new features. This is an updated version of an article from six...
May 25, 2016 | Microsoft, updates, Windows10, Windows7, Windows8
Windows 10 is a nice operating system. Microsoft should be proud. In the next few years, it will become the dominant platform on computers worldwide, with a long lifespan as the natural successor to Windows 7. But somewhere in Microsoft is a group of people making...
