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iPhone for the Windows Guy: Minimize Apple's Grip on Your Device

iPhone for the Windows Guy: Minimize Apple’s Grip on Your Device

Microsoft fans who choose the iPhone or other Apple devices don't have as many options as do those who choose the more malleable Google Android. But you can still minimize Apple's grip on your i-devices, and on your life. Here's how I do it.

Solved: Android or iPhone for the Windows Guy?

Solved: Android or iPhone for the Windows Guy?

For the past year or so, I've been wrestling with how to advise Windows users who are disappointed in the failure of Windows phone and wish to choose between Android and iPhone. This week, that choice became much clearer.

iPhone for the Windows Guy: Use Your Microsoft Accounts

iPhone for the Windows Guy: Use Your Microsoft Accounts

You've adopted an iPhone, but your contacts, email, and calendaring information are tied up in your Outlook.com or Office 365 account. No worries, you can access it all from your iPhone.

iPhone for the Windows Guy: Getting Started

iPhone for the Windows Guy: Getting Started

Adopting iPhone as your smart phone platform doesn't mean you need to leave Microsoft behind. So this new series will step through the process of getting up and running with your Microsoft-based data and apps on iPhone.

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It’s Not Just Windows 11 (Premium)

I've spent a lot of time in recent months trying to figure out Microsoft's new updating strategy for Windows 11. But this strategy isn't unique to Windows. Indeed, it's highly likely that Microsoft's "continuous innovation" efforts were inspired by the evolution of the mobile systems of which it is so jealous. And let's give Microsoft…

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Nice Guy (Premium)

What a difference two decades makes. Microsoft, once the belligerent brat of antitrust, is now fronting a kinder, gentler face to the world. And it is trying on a new role with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lowering the boom because of the software giant’s attempt to acquire Activision Blizzard: “Nice guy.” I’ve been…

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Programming Windows: One Billion (Premium)

Confusion reigned in the wake of Microsoft’s consumer-focused Windows 10 event in January 2015. There was a lot of good news, not the least of which was that Windows 10 would be a free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.x users during the first year of availability. And there was some bad news: Windows RT…

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Programming Windows: Universal (Premium)

2014 began with exciting news: my sources told me that Microsoft would discuss its vision for the future of Windows at Build 2014, which would be held that April. This vision included a year-off Windows release codenamed "Threshold" that would most likely be called Windows 9. We knew by that time that Microsoft would update…

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Programming Windows: Fast and Fluid (Premium)

By 2010, Windows’ fate was sealed. The web and the iPhone had disrupted personal computing, forever pushing the user base---and developers---away from the PC. And so Microsoft was left to decide what to do with Windows. It could coast and let the revenues from businesses roll in while their employees engaged in traditional productivity tasks…

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Programming Windows: Transitions (Premium)

Microsoft’s revenues had long been dominated by Windows and products that required Windows, like Office. But by 2007, Office had become Microsoft’s biggest business and Windows Server had emerged as a third core business. And so it is perhaps not coincidental that the software giant moved to shore up the Windows client by splitting Windows…

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Programming Windows: Redmond, Start Your Photocopiers (Premium)

In the years since Steve Jobs had returned to Apple, he had rarely missed an opportunity to mock Microsoft or Windows, and he often took on its much bigger competitor with a palpable sense of glee. But Microsoft’s Longhorn missteps triggered an escalation in Apple’s digs on Microsoft. And as the delays continued, so did…

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Programming Windows: Tablet PC (Premium)

Bill Gates fervently believed that Tablet PCs and their stylus-based handwriting capabilities together represented the future of portable computing. He was wrong about that, as it turns out. But the Tablet PC capabilities that Microsoft developed in the early 2000s would be improved, and over time they were incorporated into the Windows versions used by…

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Apple’s Biggest Problem? The iPhone Isn’t Better Than Android (Premium)

I’m confused that anyone was surprised by Apple’s admission this past week that its latest iPhones aren’t selling as well as expected. After all, we had seen months of evidence---what I think of as “intelligence chatter”---showing that these iPhones were not selling well. But I’m more alarmed by a narrative I’ve seen repeated again and again…

Android Wear is Google's Windows Phone Moment
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Android Wear is Google’s Windows Phone Moment (Premium)

Google controls the dominant personal computing platform. So why isn't Android Wear even remotely successful? That's a great question, and it's an interesting problem for Google. And comes with obvious parallels to Windows phone and Microsoft's many other failed attempts at leveraging its own dominant platform. First, some data. Smartwatch marketshare and usage share numbers…

10 Years Later: My Original (and Epic) Apple iPhone Review

10 Years Later: My Original (and Epic) Apple iPhone Review

Ten years ago this summer, I wrote what can only be described as the most accurate, honest, and, yes, epic review of Apple's first iPhone.

Windows Weekly 509: Gongs R Us

Windows Weekly 509: Gongs R Us

Leo, Mary Jo and I discuss how we handle leaks, Windows 10 Creators Update nearing completion, the return of Patch Tuesday, Windows 10 ads, and more.

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