Windows 11: The Final Approach
Last week Microsoft revealed that Windows 11 will be released on October 5th. The pilots at Microsoft have declared that we are ready for descent and final approach to landing. Get your seatbelts on,...
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On The Road With Windows 11
Unless you’ve been under a rock, you know that last week Microsoft released the first official Dev Channel build of Windows 11. Naturally, this occurred right before I was headed out of town for...
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Windows 11 Early Impressions
In the midst of a heat wave unlike the Pacific Northwest has ever seen Microsoft made a boring, hot Monday into something special. The first bits of Windows 11 were released to Windows Insiders...
Windows 11 Revealed
I woke up today with excitement and optimism. I felt like a kid again, excited to open up the next new thing. No, I am not describing Christmas day. I am describing the big...
What’s Next for Windows?
The last two weeks have given us a few clues about the future of Windows, they are slight, but they are exciting nonetheless. For those who haven’t heard at Microsoft Build two weeks ago,...
Getting Started With the Microsoft Ecosystem – Part II (OneDrive Edition)
In Part I of this guide I showed you how to get started in the Microsoft Ecosystem with that shiny new PC and an email. I mentioned how I chose to use OneDrive as...
Getting Started With the Microsoft Ecosystem
As I was thinking about what I wanted to post during 2021, I thought it may be good to go back to the basics. I’ve been in the Microsoft ecosystem for so long that...
Some Thoughts on 2020…. From a Tech Perspective
It would be stupid to say 2020 was a different year all together, it would be easy to say it didn’t go as planned, it would be foolish to think 2021 starts out any...
It’s Here – Edge Released to Stable Channel
After months of testing and a year after the initial announcement; Microsoft has released the new Edge Browser to all supported systems in the “stable” channel. As promised this also includes the now unsupported...
Riding The Edge Wave
At Ignite this year there was a lot of buzz around Microsoft’s re-branded browser, and rightfully so. They gave us a Release Candidate, a new logo, and a target for the launch of the...
Edging Closer
Wow. Microsoft is doing this, and doing this quickly. This week they released the first Beta of the new Chromium based Edge. Some say Edgeium, some say Chredge, or the NEW Edge. I think...
Microsoft is kind of Edge(y)
After months of waiting, Microsoft has finally released the first public builds of its new Edge browser. And boy was it worth it. As I wrote in Headed Towards The Open Edge, last year...
The Sorry State of Video
As mentioned in my New Year’s Tech Resolutions, one of them was to work on creating my digital library on my Synology NAS using Plex. Part of this is necessitated by the constant searching...