Happy Friday! Let's kick off the end of another busy and momentous week a bit early with another great set of diverse reader questions. Windows vNext wright_is asks: Is there any news of when the next versions of Windows are due for release? There's no literal news, but we know that there will be a…

Happy Holidays! And welcome to a mammoth, pre-Christmas edition of Ask Paul with some terrific reader questions. I’ve done my best. Ghost of Windows past hastin asks: I'm going to propose three "A Windows Carole" questions: Ghost of Windows Past: What defining thing do you think the Windows platform did to get it at the…

Happy Friday and, yes, it's already December somehow. Here's another great set of reader questions to kick off the weekend a bit early. Also, apologies for whatever the heck happened with the "Bad request" error that some were seeing with the Ask Paul forum post this week: The part of the URL that was screwed…

Happy Friday! We've survived Día de Muertos here in Mexico City, so I can take a crack at some great reader questions and kick off the weekend. Laptop keyboards Markld asks: Recently it became apparent that I cannot type well on my laptop vs my cheapie desktop keyboard. This also applies to no matter what…

Happy Friday! It’s been another long week, so let’s kick off the weekend with another great set of reader questions. Contingency simionda asks: With you running the site on your own now, do you have any kind of system in place should something happen to you?  I've seen a lot of writers who go dark…

Hola from Mexico City, and Happy Friday! Here's another great set of reader questions to kick off the weekend a bit early. Windows 12? will asks: I was curious if the next version of Windows, Windows 12 or whatever it is called, will be more of something like we see with the Windows 11 23H2…

Happy Friday! Here’s another incredible set of reader questions to kick off the weekend a bit early. So settle in, this is a long one. Belief isn’t enough JustMe asks: These days between smartphones and computers, consumers give up a TON of information - willingly or not. Tech in general is everywhere and constantly wanting…

As we stumble to the conclusion of this incredibly busy and historic week, let’s wind down with some great reader questions. Roadmap ianceicys asks: With the Xbox Roadmap leak given how far (multiple-years) into the future Microsoft plans and roadmaps stretch, and given the today's launch of the iPhone 15, how do you think about…

Whew! Happy Friday, and welcome to another mammoth and curiously personal installment of Ask Paul to kick off the weekend a bit early. This, again, is one of the biggest yet. Ahsoka helix2301 asks: Did you watch Ahsoka yet? Did you like it? I’m only partway through Ahsoka, mostly because of time issues: I watch…

If you were able to join my wife and me during our morning reading---we read the news for about an hour over coffee before heading out for a 40-minute walk---you would likely find our discussions about that news to be quite boring. We're both writers, and voracious readers, and we're both critical of the quality…

Happy Friday! And welcome to the end of what felt like a very long week despite the Monday holiday. Let’s dive in. Gatekeeping Based on the EU designating gatekeeper products, I wanted to ask: What changes would you predict the EU implements for each product? This is a rather broad topic, and I have some…

Next week, Google will face off against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in a milestone antitrust trial with strong echoes of the past. The DOJ is involved in an antitrust trial against a technology juggernaut? Now what does that remind us of? United States v. Microsoft is well known with this audience, of course,…

Well, I wasn’t expecting another mammoth installment of Ask Paul, but here it is, with another terrific set of reader questions and a lot to read. Invest in yourselves jrzoomer asks: Paul, with all your industry knowledge, do you invest in individual companies like MSFT, NVIDIA, GOOG etc? Do you have restrictions on owning individual…

Happy Friday and Hola from Mexico City! We’re heading out to the canals of Xochimilco with friends this afternoon, but let’s first kick off the weekend with another great set of reader questions. After last week’s explosion of writing---sorry about that---I tried to rein it in this week. Tried. Exclusivity sabertooth920 asks: I guess only…

Happy Friday, and welcome to what has to be the longest Ask Paul I have ever written. This one is epic, and full of great questions. I hope I rise to the occasion at least some of the time. Twitter vs. the world ggolcher asks: Safe travels! Thanks! We arrived safely, with little drama. (A…

In January 2008, my wife Stephanie and I visited Paris and stayed with friends in the Fontenay-sous-Bois suburb. They had recently purchased a Toyota Prius, and I recall stepping outside their apartment to walk down the street to the RER train station so we could head into the city. Then I stopped and regarded their…