The new M1-based Mac Mini arrives in a form factor that is identical to its predecessor but with fewer expansion ports and dramatically different internals.

Happy Friday and welcome to the last month of the most terrible year of our lives. Let’s get the weekend started a little early with some reader questions. 2.5D ErichK asks: Paul, Duke Nukem 3D wasn't a true 3D engine was it? My understanding is that honor goes to Quake. Right, Duke Nukem 3D was…

Happy Friday, and welcome to the fourth and penultimate edition of Ask Paul for October. Let’s kick off the weekend... Office 365 wonkiness, Apple relationship SherlockHolmes asks: Hi Paul, for a few weeks now, I noticed some weird behavior with Office 365. For no special reason, Word and Outlook are opening very slowly and sometimes…

Leo, Mary Jo, and Paul discuss Microsoft's Bethesda acquisition, a metric ton of news from Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft 365, and Xbox.

Given my history and how much I write, I can’t work on just a laptop: The constrained and non-ergonomic keyboards on such PCs cause carpal tunnel-like stiffness that could develop into a real issue over time. So I need to connect an external mouse, keyboard, other peripherals, and a display, or at the very least,…

Happy Valentine’s Day, and Happy Friday! Here’s a predictably Windows 10X-heavy installment of Ask Paul to wrap up the week. Windows 10X vs. Windows 10 Dan1986ist asks: Could we see the changes in Windows 10X come to other versions of Windows 10, if they don't already exist in those versions in some form? I feel…

Britain will not ban Huawei from its 5G wireless network, though it will exclude the firm from sensitive “core” parts of the network.

With just two weeks left on the meter, I decided to return to Windows 7 so that I could ride it out into its final sweet sleep. Actually, I decided to do that back in mid-December. It’s just that I spent most of the time since then in a frustrated state of not being able…

I’ve got to box up my Galaxy Note 10 up and ship it back ahead of the arrival of my Note 10+. Here are a few final impressions.

“NT EVERYWHERE! NT EVERYWHERE!” the crowd of mostly male Microsofties chanted, inadvertently channeling a Nazi rally and making the walls pound. I looked nervously at the co-worker who’d snuck into this building on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. We have to get out of here, I mouthed. “NT EVERYWHERE! NT EVERYWHERE!” There was Jim…

Happy Friday! This week's edition of Ask Paul features another great set of questions from readers. Battery tests Chris_Kez asks: For battery testing I think you've said that you use video playback, similar in spirit to what Microsoft is doing, but once you've traveled with a device for some period of time you'll report back…

Thanks to everyone for the questions this week. The answers are a bit shorter than will usually be the case because of my travel schedule, sorry. Also, I had to skip over some questions from non-Premium readers. And it was disheartening to see spam comments appear in the Ask Paul thread. I must have not…

The Windows 10 Anniversary Update roll-out has proceeded slowly so far, and probably for good reason: As more and more users install the update, we're starting to see more problems. And the latest involves Amazon's Kindle e-book readers.