May 2, 2024 | AI, business, Internet, Microsoft, mobile
AI is going to change things that you use every day. The changes will be profound, perhaps more fundamentally important than the internet or the computer or the iPhone. The speed at which things change will be faster than anything you’ve ever lived through before. You...
Apr 16, 2024 | Microsoft, news, Politics, security
On Friday, March 29, Microsoft engineer Andres Freund saved the world. He found malware shortly before it was due to be distributed to the vast majority of the world’s servers, including those used by banks, hospitals, governments and Fortune 500 companies. The bit...
Feb 8, 2023 | AI, business, Google, Microsoft, news
A lot of people write words. Many of them do a modest amount of research and draw on a modest amount of creativity, then they put a modest amount of work into their words. That has been enough for many people to make an adequate living until now. New technology allows...
May 28, 2022 | mail, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, Outlook, software, Windows10, Windows11
If you obsessively follow Microsoft news – and surely you do, right? – you may have seen references to the “new Outlook for Windows.” That might have led you to the conclusion that Microsoft is working on, I don’t know, let’s guess something crazy, maybe, maybe . . ....
Mar 6, 2022 | Amazon, Apple, augmented reality, Azure, bruceb, business, Facebook, Google, Internet, Microsoft, virtual reality
I’ve been trying to figure out a role for Bruceb News in 2022. My life has changed – I’m working with Jim Rowson on our latest best-selling novel SMelL and I’m not doing much IT work any more, as planned. But I still devour tech news hungrily, scanning hundreds...
Feb 13, 2022 | Apple, augmented reality, business, Facebook, Google, HoloLens, Microsoft, virtual reality
Last fall all the cool companies started talking about their augmented reality plans and throwing around the term “metaverse” as if it meant something. (Insider tip: it doesn’t.) Journalists have been crowding around Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft on...
