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Closed Windows: Microsoft Closing All Retail Stores

June 29, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary

More bad news for Microsoft on Friday, they announced they are closing ALL Microsoft Store physical locations.

Microsoft

Broken Windows: pro-Microsoft sites say Stability Going Downhill & Win Mail is Deleting Gmail

June 25, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary

Today's Broken Windows stories from pro-Microsoft web sites report more big bugs in Windows 10.

Microsoft, Windows

Broken Windows: Microsoft Keeps Making More Bugs Than Useful Features

June 18, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary, Engineering

Update after update, Microsoft just keeps breaking Windows. More proof that it was a good move, when I dumped Win-Blows for Mac. It was 10 years ago when I went Mac and never looked back.

Apple, Azure DevOps/VSTS, Mac, macOS, Microsoft, Windows

Lenovo Laptop with 2nd Screen – Please Don’t Do That

January 7, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary

From the "No body needs that, so please don't" department: At CES 2020 Lenovo announced a new ThinkBook Plus with a 10.8-inch E ink display on the lid. This is a really really bad idea that is a very bad User eXperience (UX) design. This is what happens when tech companies do something just because they can, even when they shouldn't.