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Cortana Daily Briefing & Schrodinger’s Cat
Microsoft Cortana is the Schrodinger’s Cat of personal assistants: it’s both alive and dead simultaneously. To be honest, after opening the door and observing Cortana, you’ll likely decide that the best word is “irrelevant,” which is fine; it means Cortana will keep...
OUTLOOK SIGNATURES
Outlook 2003 occasionally throws up error messages when a message contains a formatted signature. People who have scanned their handwritten signature or want to use a graphic are...
VISTA UPGRADES GONE WRONG
By coincidence, I ran into two stories about miserable experiences upgrading from Windows XP to Vista: a tale of woe from a BBC journalist and a similar story from a PC Magazine...
MOZYPRO ONLINE BACKUP
Online backup has been a tempting possibility for years. Your files are automatically copied to safe online storage and kept up to date automatically at a reasonable price....
WINDOWS DESKTOP SEARCH 3.01
Windows Desktop Search 3.01 is a brand new release of Microsoft's tool for indexing mail and documents for instant searches on Windows XP. There were some growing pains as they...
MICROSOFT HMM MOMENTS
Two Microsoft things have turned up in the last week that have made me say, Hmmm. There's no point to these and nothing special to do - just odd geeky things that caught my...
NEW PRODUCT OVERLOAD
The post-holiday lull has ended, Vista is out the door, so we're back to a nonstop barrage of new products and services. Here's what stood out in the last week.Adobe will offer a...
DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME – BE CAREFUL!
Daylight Saving Time will start on March 11, three weeks earlier than usual, and it will end on November 4, 1 week later than usual. This causes some interesting problems for...
HIDEOUS ONECARE BUG
Here's a tale that will send a chill down your spine, about one of the worst software bugs I've ever run into. This is truly hideous, confidence shattering stuff.The buggy...
VISTA COMPATIBILITY
The PC industry is in a state of flux as hardware and software developers wrestle with Vista. The security improvements in Vista go deep into the system and the developers are...
SECOND THOUGHTS ON SECOND LIFE
Second Life looked like it was poised to be the Next Big Thing when the media gave it blanket coverage a few months ago. (I got caught up in the hype and wrote a description of...
CLASSICAL MUSIC HOAX
The classical music world is in an uproar over the discovery that most or all of the recordings by acclaimed pianist Joyce Hatto are copies of recordings by other artists, either...
DELETING ONECARE BACKUP FILES
Windows Live OneCare makes it simple to back up your files to an external hard drive. The new version of OneCare allows backups to be updated automatically, every day or every...
MICROSOFT WINDOWS HOME SERVER BETA 2
Here's a review of a beta release of Microsoft Windows Home Server, which continues to look like a genuinely exciting advance for home computing. Here are my earlier thoughts on...
BLU-RAY & HD-DVD SECURITY BROKEN
High definition DVDs have always had two, and only two, purposes: to impose significant new barriers to your free use of the content on them by adding new layers of DRM; and to...
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY
Happy Valentine's Day! Stuck for a gift? I'm sure a lot of you depend on Thinkgeek.com for your last minute holiday shopping, so you'll be relieved to know that Thinkgeek is all...