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Microsoft Will Delay Your Windows 10 Upgrade For You

Microsoft is reneging on its promise to deliver Windows 10 to you on July 29 – and it’s the best thing it could have done. I still want you to wait 30-60 days after July 29 before you upgrade, but...

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Office 2016 For Mac Now Available For Office 365 Subscribers

Microsoft has released Office 2016 For Mac, a long overdue refresh of the Office programs that makes the Mac programs visually and functionally identical to the Windows versions. The updated Office...

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Windows 10 Tip: Make The Edge Browser Disappear Until It’s Finished

Edge is the new Microsoft web browser that replaces Internet Explorer in Windows 10. The name “Edge” was chosen so Microsoft could use a similar E icon down in the taskbar. (Seriously.) But Edge is...

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Office 2016 Is Now Available! Well, For Some Of You, Anyway

The new version of Office 2016 for Windows is now generally available. The takeaway: •  Most of you will get it automatically. •  Most of you won’t care very much. Microsoft has completely lost...

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Easy To Do Lists With Wunderlist

Wunderlist makes it easy to manage to do lists. You can use it on iPhones, Android phones, tablets, Windows and Mac computers, and on the web. Your lists will be kept in sync no matter where you look...

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Intuit’s Plans For Quicken And Quickbooks Aren’t What You Expect

Quicken and Quickbooks are among our oldest friends on desktop computers. Millions of people use Quicken for their home finances. Most small businesses use Quickbooks as their accounting system....

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The Future For Quickbooks Is Cloudy

Previously: Intuit’s Plans For Quicken And Quickbooks Aren’t What You Expect Intuit wants you to use QuickBooks Online. It really wants you to use QuickBooks Online. It’s going to pressure you to give...

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An Amazing iPhone App You’re Not Using (But You Should Be)

myEcho is an iPhone app that can take your dictation and insert it into any Windows program. It’s remarkably accurate, it’s easy to use, and, oh yes, it only costs $1.99. If you’ve spent any time...

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Another Way To Disable Windows 10 Upgrade Notices

Microsoft Chief Marketing Officer Chris Capossela sat down for a remarkably frank interview on the Windows Weekly podcast a few days ago. One of the topics was the insistent push that Microsoft is...

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Simple Photo Editing From Adobe

We are awash in photos. Our phones take better photos every year, and it’s so easy now to snap a dozen pictures where we would have taken one in the past, trying to get a picture with everyone’s eyes...

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Another One Bites The Dust: Say Goodbye To Picasa

Google posted an announcement a few days ago that Picasa will be closed down soon. Picasa is two things – a cloud service for storing photos online, and a desktop application for managing photos on...

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The Ignored, Unloved Windows Store

Windows 10 has two new icons on the taskbar. One is Microsoft Edge, the new unfinished web browser that Microsoft should have kept under wraps for a while longer. You’ve noticed that one because the...

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The Decline Of Internet Explorer

Market share for Internet Explorer is going down fast. Google Chrome is the Internet browser being chosen by more people every year. If you’re an Internet Explorer user, you’re not required to switch!...

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Is LastPass Causing Internet Explorer To Crash?

A lot has happened with LastPass recently – an acquisition, a new version of the program, a redesigned logo, and maybe some new problems running LastPass in Internet Explorer. Let’s take it one step...

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Intuit Quietly Sells Quicken To Private Equity Firm

Intuit completed the sale of Quicken to private equity firm HIG Capital last week. Longtime readers will recall that Intuit issued a very strange press release in August begging someone, anyone, to...

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Microsoft Edge Is Windows 10’s Biggest Mistake

Microsoft Edge is the web browser that Microsoft developed to replace Internet Explorer. When you upgrade to Windows 10, Edge is set as the default browser, regardless of your previous settings. It is...

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Personal Computers Are Just Too Hard To Use, And It Isn’t Your Fault

“Personal computers are just too hard to use, and it isn’t your fault.” That was the first line in the first column that influential tech journalist Walt Mossberg wrote on October 17, 1991 for the...

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Office 365 Business Plans Now Include Access

Microsoft Access, an Office program for database management, will be included with the other Office programs in the Office 365 Business and Business Premium plans, starting next month. This is...

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Quickbooks Moves Inexorably To The Cloud

A year ago I wrote about Intuit’s promotion of Quickbooks Online and the bleak long-term prospects for the desktop version of Quickbooks. It’s not really a choice for Intuit; it’s the only way to...

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Microsoft Edge Sinks Into Irrelevance

People spent more time browsing the web on their phones than on their PCs in October, according to StatCounter. Think about that for a second. It’s another remarkable statistic. More than half of the...

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