For years, the personal technology market has been defined by platform wars. Windows PCs vs. Mac. Internet Explorer vs. Netscape. Android vs. iPhone. But I think those days are over. And I just gotta ask, can't we all just get along? The answer, of course, is yes. But this new normal needs to be communicated…

It's a new year and many are resolving to lose weight, exercise more, or drink less. These are worthy goals. But let's also resolve to get our digital lives in order too. This can take many forms. But here are a few great places to start. Secure your online identity. I wrote about this topic…

The Google Pixelbook is the aspirational new flagship for a hybrid mobile computing platform that represents the biggest-ever threat to Windows.

The next major release of Firefox is such an improvement that Mozilla decided to change the name.

If you have been listening to First Ring Daily or following me on Twitter for the past few weeks, you will have seen that I have been trying to change up my workflow and find new apps to help me stay organized. This entire process got kicked-started earlier this year when I decided to stop…

Windows 10 S is half-baked. It's not ready for me. It's not ready for you. And it's not ready for anyone. Not yet.

Build is perhaps my favorite Microsoft event because it highlights two of my biggest tech passions: Windows and software development. But that may be changing, which makes this year's show was particularly poignant. Now, Microsoft is marking a shift in which it emphasizes cross-platform capabilities over those that work only on Windows 10. Even writing…

I'm heading into this week's Build 2017 conference with a sense of anticipation. But what I would like to see at Build differs sharply from what we will most likely be shown.

Microsoft is expected to formally unveil Windows 10 Cloud at a press event in early May. But there's no need to wait on the rationale for this release, as the software giant just quietly explained its strategy. As a recap, rumors of a new Windows product version, or SKU, called Windows 10 Cloud emerged earlier…

Samsung's new Galaxy Book4 series laptops offer unique Copilot features in a continuation of this company's unique partnership with Microsoft.

You all know how strongly I feel about the long-overdue need to regulate Big Tech. And that Apple and Google are, to my mind, the worst offenders, the low-hanging fruit whose capricious anti-competitive strategies must be curtailed first. And that, more generally, that each of these Big Tech firms---Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Meta---should be…

Happy Friday from Mexico City! Here’s another lengthy installment of Ask Paul with some great reader questions to help kick off the weekend. Ray Ozzie sabertooth920 asks: Please, speculate on what the modern Microsoft would look like had Ray Ozzie not left (and been given the authority)?  In hindsight, he looks a lot wiser and…

Most didn’t appreciate it at the time, but the 2008 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) was an inflection point for Microsoft, a dividing line between the Microsoft of old and the cloud superpower of today. To that time, each PDC had focused on a specific new platform, like NT in 1992 and Longhorn in 2003. And…

Leo, Mary Jo, and Paul Edgegate, Microsoft Teams Essentials, Windows 11, and Xbox, and we take a bunch of listener questions.

This week, Vivaldi upgraded its flagship desktop web browser to version 4.3, adding several useful new improvements.

Google has released Chrome OS 92, which supports eSIMs, bundles Google Meet, and offers other usability improvements.