Well, we're back in Pennsylvania and feeling lost. Hopefully, another great set of reader questions can get me back on track. Also, happy Ides of March. It was a super site gg1 asks: I distinctly remember you sharing that you tried to find a way to keep your old content from Penton in a win-win…

Happy Friday! Let's kick off the weekend a little earlier with another set of great reader questions, all of them answered AI-free. Lifecycle spacecamel asks: In your story about the expanded availability of 23H2, one thing that struck me was that each "update" had an end-of-life date of only about 18 months. It's actually 24…

Sony’s PlayStation Portal remote player has been hacked by Google engineers who have shown the device running the PSP version of GTA III.

Happy Friday! Let's put this incredibly busy and contentious week behind us, and I know exactly how to make that happen, with this terrific set of reader questions. Advanced Eero ianceicys asks: Hi Paul, you mentioned that you upgraded your Wi-Fi to an eero Wi-Fi network. Yes. We upgraded to a three-node Eero Pro 6E…

Happy Friday! We live in interesting times, for better or worse, and you can see that in this week's terrific set of reader questions. I will do my best. Numbers AnOldAmigaUser asks: With this week's revelations regarding tracking being done by Microsoft and Meta were sort of stunning. The problem was obvious, but I do…

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…

Microsoft's laughable inability to communicate effectively reached absurd heights today with the release of Windows 11 version 23H2. But it's not just the product or the non-existent "Fall update" we were promised. There's also a little problem with the one "major" new feature in 23H2 that didn't ship previously in preview form. I am referring…

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 and welcome to the end of our Activision Blizzard nightmare. Let's get the weekend kicked off extra early for a change: I'm flying to Mexico City this afternoon, so I had to file this one early. Clipchamp limitations staganyi asks: I tried Clipchamp for the first time because I had to trim a…

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…

Among the many leaked Xbox documents is a fascinating peek at Microsoft's strategy for Xbox over the next ten years. Here are a few thoughts about this vision for the future. But first, be sure to read Laurent's news coverage of this unprecedented event, which includes details about the 2024 Xbox Series X and Series…

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,…