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...
Mar 6, 2017 | Apple, business, Chromebook, computers, iPad, laptops, Microsoft, Windows10
These two things are true. Apple’s revenues in fiscal 2016 from selling computers were more than twenty billion dollars. That makes Apple’s computer division almost as big as HP or Lenovo, and far more profitable than either of them. Apple’s revenues in fiscal 2016...
Feb 20, 2017 | Android, Apple, audio, Chrome, Chromebook, Google, remote, video
Google Chrome is a web browser. I kind of vaguely knew that it could do other cool tricks. I stumbled on a pretty amazing Chrome app that I’ve been overlooking for five years. Sometimes it seems like Google is having all the fun with new technology. With Chrome Remote...
Feb 12, 2017 | Android, Chrome, Chromebook, Google, hardware, laptops
Chromebooks are poised to change the world. Delicately balanced. Teetering on the edge. Any day now, they’re going to take off. Whoosh! Any day now. Not today. Chromebooks are low-cost laptops that run Google’s ChromeOS instead of Windows. ChromeOS is basically the...
