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The Circus of Dr Lao: A Small, Strange American Masterpiece
Psst. Come in, come in! I’ve got a weird and wonderful book for you. There are books that feel like neatly arranged shelves. Then there are books like The Circus of Dr. Lao , which feels more like someone opened a door in the back of the room and a carnival wandered…
Not All Technology Bubbles Are Expanding
Technology news has been a bit negative recently. The death of Windows Phone got the most attention last week but Apple and Samsung have their own problems, and there are…
Major Office 365 Mail Outage On Wednesday
Microsoft’s Exchange-based Office 365 mail system went down for four hours on Wednesday afternoon. Service has been fully restored. If you’re an Office 365 user, then incoming…
R.I.P. Windows Phone
Windows Phone is dead. Last week Microsoft announced that it will lay off almost all of the remaining employees inherited from its purchase of Nokia, and write off $7.6 billion…
Emergency Update For Adobe Flash, Which Is Having A Really Bad Year
Hackers got an unexpected present this week: a vulnerability in Adobe Flash that can be used to break into PCs, along with detailed instructions about how to use it. Adobe issued…
Microsoft Will Delay Your Windows 10 Upgrade For You
Microsoft is reneging on its promise to deliver Windows 10 to you on July 29 – and it’s the best thing it could have done. I still want you to wait 30-60 days after July 29…
Do Not Upgrade To Windows 10!
Do not – do NOT – upgrade your computer to Windows 10 for at least 30-60 days after it launches. Please tell your employees not to upgrade right away. Tell your friends and…
Windows 10–The Best Version Of Windows Ever, Free
Windows 10 will be released on July 29. You should look forward to it. It’s all good news. Microsoft has been working to combine the best features of Windows 7 and Windows 8 into…
Office Everywhere–Word, Excel, Powerpoint Now Available For Android Phones
Word, Excel and Powerpoint apps are now available for Android phones, joining OneNote and Outlook. The Office programs are already available on iPhones, iPads and Android…
Some Cool Google Chrome Tricks
I’ve been using Chrome as my primary web browser instead of Internet Explorer for the last few months. I’ll have more stories to tell you about what that’s been like but today I…
Skype For Modern Windows Is Retired, Skype In A Web Browser Is Released
Microsoft wants Skype to be everywhere. It got a little over-zealous with a poorly-designed version of Skype for Windows 8 that never caught on and is being discontinued, but it…
Don’t Panic! LastPass Has Been Hacked, But Only A Little
If you use LastPass to store your passwords, you probably got an email yesterday reporting that hackers stole some data from the LastPass servers. Here’s the official…
Dropbox, Box Integration Extends Reach Of Office Everywhere
Previously: The Threat That Nearly Destroyed Microsoft Office Microsoft opened the Office programs to third party cloud services in February. Since then, connections have been…
The Threat That Nearly Destroyed Microsoft Office
Microsoft is continuing an aggressive push to ensure that Word, Excel and Powerpoint continue to be the standard business file formats as we move into a new world of mobile…
Upload Your Photos To Google: Trade Privacy For Big Rewards
Google Photos is the free service introduced last week that gives you unlimited online storage space for your photos and makes them as easy to search as email or files. It has…
What Would Happen If Microsoft Killed A Program And No One Noticed? The Sad Story Of MSN Travel
Alas, poor MSN Travel! We knew it well. That’s not true. If we had paid any attention to it, it would probably still be alive. At some point in the last month, Microsoft gutted…