TL;DR: Multitask without missing a beat thanks to this refurbished Microsoft Surface Pro 6, which has a Grade "B" rating, type cover, and pre-installed Windows 10 for only $393.99 (reg. $849)!
There's nothing quite like the Microsoft Surface Pro 6. — Read the rest
TL;DR: Need a new laptop? Well, you can get one now for an incredible price. This refurbished Microsoft Surface Laptop 2nd Gen (2018), which is usually priced at $399, is now on sale for just $274.99.
Microsoft Surface laptops regularly earn raves: In fact, PCMag described the Microsoft Surface 2 as a "sleek ultraportable with a top-notch build, a stellar screen, and a very long-lasting battery," while The Verge gave it a four-star review. — Read the rest
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TL;DR: From its compatibility to elevated user experience, it's always smooth sailing with Microsoft Windows 10 Pro, now discounted to just $29.97 until 10/15 during Fall Deal Days! — Read the rest
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TL;DR: This HP EliteBook 840 G5 with Windows 10 Pro is under $350 and has all of the bells and whistles you're used to when you deal with HP and Windows. — Read the rest
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TL;DR: If you want to do the best work possible, you need a computer that's running in tip-top shape. — Read the rest
With more and more people working at the office, at home, and on the go, virtually everyone needs a laptop these days. But the truth is that most of us simply don't require the type of processing power that the incredibly awesome but super-expensive Apple laptops have to offer when it comes to making it through the day. — Read the rest
Around this time last year, I picked up a Surface Go. It's been a great piece of hardware. While it might not be the most powerful Windows PC going, it's got more than enough guts to power me through a day of writing, editing and photo tweaking in situations where hauling along my laptop isn't desirable. — Read the rest
If you paid extra for Windows 10 "Pro," Microsoft had an unpleasant surprise for you: a misconfiguration in the company's license server resulted in the oldest Win 10 Pro installs (that is, those owned by Microsoft's earliest adopting customers) being downgraded to Windows 10 Home, with users' screens plastered with watermarks chiding them for not paying for their licenses (this went over great for everyone who was standing in front of an audience giving a presentation, apparently).
Edge isn't doing so well: Chrome still rules the web roost, and Firefox is resurgent. But Microsoft can do something about that.
— Read the restCompanies like Google or Microsoft have used their market position in the past to push their own products. Google pushes Chrome on all of its properties when users use different browsers to connect to them, and Microsoft too displayed notifications on the Windows 10 platform to users who used other browsers that Edge was more secure or power friendly.
I'm now the proud owner of a Microsoft Surface Go with 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. It's by no means a power house (I'll have a review for you sometime next week that addresses my user experience,) but it's more than capable of allowing me to get work done in coffee shops, on an airplane tray table or in the bathroom. — Read the rest
If you had a Windows PC with a CD drive in the mid-1990s, the percentages are pretty good that you lost countless hours of sleep to playing Myst. Full of difficult but rewarding puzzles and featuring a captivating story with an ending that was dictated by your in-game actions, the game was cutting-edge stuff, back in the day. — Read the rest
Microsoft gives away (ie forces) upgrades to Windows 10, and the price (ie reason) is that it is now "infested" with advertising, writes Tom Warren. Ads in the file explorer. Ads in core apps. Ads for Microsoft's browser that pop up as system notifications when he uses Chrome. — Read the rest
Windows 10 takes one of the most hated aspects of Microsoft operating systems — forced, sudden software updates and reboots — and elevates them to a sadistic art, with Win 10 machines suddenly announcing that it's update time and rendering themselves inoperable for up to an hour, wiping out unsaved work and locking users out of their computers while they're onstage, or in the middle of large file uploads, or livecasting, or completing a live test for college admission, taking notes during an interview, etc.
Joel Johnson reviews the MacOS vs Windows situation as it stands after Apple's disappointing new MacBook Pro. Like a lot of people needing capable laptops, he's switched back to Windows, and finds himself torn between two startlingly opposite visions of the computing experience. — Read the rest
Microsoft's deceptive hard-sell to gets users to "upgrade" to Windows 10 (the most control-freaky OS to ever come out of Redmond) is made all the more awful by just how much personal, sensitive, compromising data Microsoft exfiltrates from its users' PCs once they make the switch.
Lenovo is on top of a shrinking market; only Apple is shipping significantly more machines this year than last, according to trade group numbers. HP is sinking fastest among the big players, but still in #2. The rest of the market ("Other") seems to be evacuating the bowels of modern life entirely, losing 20% its size last year. — Read the rest
There's no way to turn off the "recovery" feature that sends your disk encryption keys to Microsoft by default, without notice — though you can (and should) ask Microsoft to forget the keys later.
When you click through the Windows 10 "agreement," you agree to let Microsoft subject your games and hardware to authenticity tests and to shut down anything it doesn't like the looks of.
Kirk writes, "This weekend we upgraded my 14-year-old son's laptop from Windows 8 to Windows 10. Today I got a creepy-ass email from Microsoft titled 'Weekly activity report for [my kid]', including which websites he's visited, how many hours per day he's used it, and how many minutes he used each of his favorite apps."
By default, Microsoft gets to see your location, keystrokes and browser history — and listen to your microphone, and some of that stuff is shared with "trusted [by Microsoft, not by you] partners."
