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I'm surprised at myself having not just moved to Windows 10, but even embracing Microsoft Outlook. | I’ve been a long-time Mac user. However, about a year ago, I started to explore using Windows 10 as my main ...
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Fixing an annoying problem with display brightness getting stuck. | It’s uncharacteristic for me to write about a single, specific, product problem. This issue, however, has been bugging me enough, and after ...
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I’ve reviewed many notebooks on my blog, but thus far I’ve mostly not included any PC benchmarks in my write-up. With my new direction getting more in-depth with Wintel computers, this is going to change. I’m ...
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It may already be May today, but Microsoft has just released the Windows 10 April 2018 Update through the Windows Update channel today. This is version 1803, originally named the Spring Creators Update, but Microsoft eventually ...
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Microsoft released the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in 2016, providing users who preferred or needed to work with a Linux environment the ability to do so right there within Windows 10. As a user who works a lot with Unix, I ...
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I’ve been a Mac user for a long time. For the last 6 weeks, however, I’ve been actively using a Windows PC as my primary computer at work. I wanted to test if Windows will work for me. It’s one thing to try ...
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I’ve been using Mac computers as my daily driver continuously from before Apple even put Intel processors in them. I only have brief and occasional encounters with Windows. However, I’ve never precluded the ...
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I’ve been a long-time Mac user. I’ve used them as my primary computer ever since the PowerBook G4 era. That’s even before the Mac even used Intel processors. Yet, I don’t consider myself fanatical about ...
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Microsoft confirmed last week that a portion of Windows 10 source code had leaked online, according to a report from The Verge. This is part of a massive leak of some 32 TB of data that includes private internal builds and other ...
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I’ll admit I’m not much of a Windows fan. Among the many reasons, one of them would be the presumption that Windows is surreptitiously sending data about my computer to Microsoft servers, and perhaps the NSA, MI5/MI6, ...