Happy Friday, and happy Friday the 13th. Here’s a mammoth edition of Ask Paul to kick off the weekend a bit early. The perfect smartphone? Nic asks: This is related to your premium post on Inconsistency. I've been a contented user of OnePlus phones for several years now, but I've reached a point where the…

Happy Friday and Happy iPhone Day! Let’s kick off the weekend with an unusually long Ask Paul thanks to some great reader questions. New Surface, old dock cwfinn asks; Has anyone else experienced the poor performance (keyboard lag, video flicker on external monitor, mouse lag) with Surface Pro 7 and the 1st Gen Microsoft Surface…

Happy Friday! And welcome to the end of August and the close of month 6 of our wonderful pandemic. Let’s pretend it’s the weekend… Future of computing eeisner asks: Looking into your crystal ball, what do you think the future of phones and mobile computing looks like? The rectangle slab of glass isn't going to…

Way back at the beginning of the pandemic, perhaps in very late February or early March, a coworker pinged me to ask whether I was starting up another “Living with” series anytime soon. Yes, I told them. I was going to try switching from the Xbox One to the PC for my daily gaming needs.…

Performance and compatibility problems undermine the portability, connectivity, and versatility advantages of the Lenovo Flex 5G.

Microsoft’s Phil Spencer has penned an interesting editorial explaining his firm’s strategy for the future of gaming ... and Project xCloud.

Happy Friday! We have a metric ton of questions this week, and that seems like a fine way to kick off the weekend. Store apps automatically reinstalling SherlockHolmes asks: I have a weird problem with the Microsoft Store and how it behaves after an Update. after an Update, it reinstalls UWP Apps I uninstalled from…

Microsoft announced today that Forza Street is now available on Android and iOS, a mere 13 months after it was first announced.

Microsoft’s earnings this week were greeted with cheers and a lot of celebratory backslapping, at least virtually, given social distancing. But what does the data really tell us about the firm’s consumer businesses? Before diving in, I can say that the most interesting tidbit from earnings was this little quote from its FY20 (Q120) earning…

Microsoft is allowing interested gamers to pre-register for its upcoming Forza Street game for Android. It’s coming to iOS version too.

2019 was a confusing year for apps. The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) was declared dead. Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) didn’t take off in any meaningful way, again. Mac Catalyst landed with a thud. And Linux apps, inexplicably, were everywhere. Only people like you and me worry about this stuff, of course. To most users, apps…

Google's Stadia has a lot of promise on the table and some unique technology but they have a long uphill battle ahead if they want to make the service a success.

Some eagle-eyed readers have noticed that I’ve moved to Microsoft Outlook on my smartphones, and there’s a good reason for that. It’s the best email client I’ve ever used. It’s so good, in fact, that I am curious why we can’t take advantage of its superior user experience on Microsoft’s core client platform, Windows 10.…

Hot off this week’s Microsoft event, here’s an epic Ask Paul to celebrate the start of the weekend. Windows 10X, OS modularity, and you Dan1986ist asks: Will Windows 10X running on top WCOS herald a change in how Microsoft and OEMs do Windows 10 on device form factors going forward, if it is successful, or…

Microsoft has shared the details of its upcoming xCloud preview program and how to join the trial.

Happy Friday, and thanks to all the Premium readers who contributed to this week’s Ask Paul. Keto Ben Lee asks: I put on lots of weight over the last year due to breaking my ankle and not adapting my diet to accommodate for the lack of exercise. And I've heard good things about a ketogenic…