Slightly ahead of schedule, Microsoft this week released a new public or technical preview of Windows 10. This is supposedly a better, more reliable version of the OS beta that has already been available, so I jumped at the chance to see what Microsoft hopes will push the bad memories of Windows 8 to the […]

I’m sometimes criticized for writing tabloid headlines to get attention, but I’d like to think that they all accurately reflect the contents of my articles. At the same time, I realize some of you will fight me tooth and nail over this one, because you can’t imagine that the world’s largest software company — which […]

I resisted using some variation of the theme “You’ve Got MSN” in the title, since someone else beat me to the punch. Or maybe great (or not-so-great) minds truly think alike. But let’s take my inevitable journey through the pages of history. It’s hard to believe in retrospect, but at one time AOL was primarily […]